Staff Product Designer, GenAI

TikTok is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design of TikTok Symphony Creative Studio, shaping product strategy and translating it into a clear, actionable design roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation at speed: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and translate them into impactful design solutions.
• Lead Symphony Creative Studio: Own the end-to-end design of our flagship product, shaping product strategy and translating it into a clear, actionable design roadmap.
• Design AI-native experiences: Define and champion design frameworks, patterns, and principles that make creative production seamless, intuitive, and impactful across Creative GenAI products.
• Simplify complexity: Translate advanced AI capabilities into simple, elegant, and effective creative tools for advertisers.
• Shape product strategy: Partner with PM, Engineering, UXR, Content Design, PMM, and Data Science to align design direction with business and product priorities.
• Build from 0→1: Bring vision and clarity to brand-new product spaces, guiding ideas from concept through launch.
• Lead and mentor: Provide thought leadership in design critiques, coach junior designers, and elevate the overall craft quality of the team.
• Champion user needs: Advocate for user-centered design that balances advertiser goals, technical feasibility, and creative innovation.
• Scale the team: Support hiring, onboarding, and community development to expand the impact of Creative GenAI design.

Requirements

• Extensive years of product design experience, with a strong track record of impact.
• Passion for TikTok products and the creativity they inspire.
• Proven ability to design complex creative, GenAI, or productivity tools at scale; familiarity with the ads domain is a plus.
• Strength in defining design strategy and navigating ambiguous problem spaces.

Key Skills

• Commitment to high-quality, meticulously crafted visual and interaction design, with sharp attention to detail.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• An entrepreneurial mindset that balances speed with uncompromised quality.
• Deep passion for GenAI, creativity, and the future of digital advertising.

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).