Staff Product Designer

Design and develop internal tools and platforms for TikTok employees, focusing on user experience and product design.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of internal tools and platforms that enable TikTok global employees to accomplish their goals efficiently and productively in a smooth manner.
• Own every aspect of a product's design, from solving the core user challenge to shipping a well-tested and pixel-perfect UI.
• Before designing anything, do everything possible to familiarize yourself with the core problem you're trying to solve and all the user goals.
• Create and test rough prototypes early in the design process to create confidence in a solution.
• Design high-fidelity UI and UX specs to clearly communicate requirements to your team's engineers.
• Help make high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product team.
• Contribute your design thinking skills to other areas of the platform (Research, Marketing, product education, customer success, etc.).
• Mentor by heart, willing to support junior or mid-level designers.

Requirements

• Experienced in designing and shipping end-to-end products involving deep technical domains, complex flows, multiple scenarios, and edge cases.
• Proven ability to empathize with and develop solutions for professional users, including Sales, Data Scientists, Client Success Engineers, and more.
• Ability to provide design variations and rationalize design choices.
• Ability to organize and communicate thoughts and motivations with different audiences.
• A keen eye for visual UI details.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in product design settings.
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision.
• Self-motivated and able to efficiently run with a project without close supervision.
• Willing to adapt and contribute to design system.
• Working closely with engineers to build components that seamlessly fit into a larger component library/style guide.
• Love to discuss design in group settings; participate in design critiques and reviews.
• Experienced or interested in data visualization.

Key Skills

• Designing and shipping end-to-end products involving deep technical domains, complex flows, multiple scenarios, and edge cases.
• Empathizing with and developing solutions for professional users.
• Providing design variations and rationalizing design choices.
• Organizing and communicating thoughts and motivations with different audiences.
• Having a keen eye for visual UI details.
• Thinking at a high level about product strategy and vision.
• Self-motivation and ability to run with a project without close supervision.
• Adapting and contributing to design system.
• Working closely with engineers to build components that seamlessly fit into a larger component library/style guide.
• Discussing design in group settings; participating in design critiques and reviews.
• Experience or interest in data visualization.

Benefits

• 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).