Tech Lead Manager - E-commerce Live Streaming & Traffic Ecosystem, Global E-commerce Content Recommendation

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Tech Lead Manager - E-commerce Live Streaming & Traffic Ecosystem, Global E-commerce Content Recommendation

Location
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Seattle

Employment Type
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Regular

Job Code
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A186970A

Responsibilities

Interest-based E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers' interests to excellent sellers and high quality products on TikTok Shop. Different from other traditional E-commerce platforms, Tiktok Shop provides customers with personalized and unique shopping experience through E-commerce live-streaming and E-commerce short videos. The recommendation system plays an extremely important role in helping customers explore their shopping interests.

We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and research scientists that focus on E-commerce video/live-streaming recommendations on the major traffic source of Tiktok ForU page, where we serve traffic for billions of users every single day. We develop innovative algorithms and ML techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, converting creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited about applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce and recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Define and optimize the long-term value system for e-commerce live streaming by balancing short-term conversion with long-term retention and user experience.
• Build user experience health models to guide traffic allocation toward high-quality, high-value content.
• Develop negative interest and fatigue modeling mechanisms to identify user disinterest, content saturation, and exposure fatigue across multiple scenarios (live, short video, shelf).
• Design dynamic decay and penalty mechanisms to personalize fatigue modeling and improve content diversity.
• Model topic-level user affinity and long-term engagement through multi-task learning and long-term value optimization, promoting sustainable creator–user relationships.
• Establish ecosystem health indices and data-driven governance loops for continuous optimization of traffic and supply dynamics.
• Lead core ecosystem and user experience projects from problem definition to algorithm deployment and performance evaluation, collaborating closely with product, strategy, and operations teams.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields.
• Strong foundation in recommendation systems, with expertise in Ranking, Matching, Long-term Modeling, Multi-objective Learning, User Fatigue Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, or Lifelong Engagement.
• Proficient in TensorFlow or PyTorch, with experience designing complex ranking or value optimization strategies.
• Deep understanding of content commerce, live streaming ecosystems, and user behavior patterns.
• Strong analytical and data sense with the ability to design metrics, conduct experiments, and perform attribution analysis.
• Proven experience leading projects or teams, driving cross-functional alignment and end-to-end execution.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually.

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Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

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Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

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2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

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3. Exercising sound judgment.

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About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

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We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

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Diversity & Inclusion

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TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at

https://tinyurl.com/RA-request