Senior Product Designer, Design System
Apply NowCompany: TikTok
Location: San Jose, CA 95123
Description:
Responsibilities
Team Introduction
TikTok UX team is responsible for the product design of the core TikTok app. Our key vertical ownership areas include Core app Product Infrastructure, Social, Search, Creation, and Design Systems. Providing professional design methods and practices, the team helps improve user experience and working efficiency of these products and areas.
Responsibilities
- Design robust Design Systems for TikTok, a complex product, work closely with engineers to create high-quality components, and address technical challenges.
- Understand stakeholders' needs comprehensively, including business, design, and engineering, and develop straightforward solutions that enhance business metrics and collaboration efficiency.
- Possess excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills, and manage complex projects involving cross-functional teams.
- Stay updated with visual trends, maintain high aesthetic standards, and consistently enhance user experience.
- Quickly prototype based on conceptual ideas, design user flows using data analysis and user research, gather feedback, refine designs, and deliver products with optimal user experience.
- Continuously improve the overall product experience.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Over 3 years of UX and UI design experience for consumer-facing products on both mobile and web.
- Led multiple projects from strategy to launch with keen attention to detail.
- Skilled in rapid iteration and concept production.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain concepts, vision, and decisions.
- Experienced in collaborating with various organizational stakeholders.
- Open-minded, self-motivated, receptive to feedback, and patient.
- Entrepreneurial, adaptable to rapid changes and less-than-ideal situations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient in A/B testing and data-driven design.
- Knowledge of front-end programming.
- Fluent in English, with Mandarin as an added advantage in order to communicate with global stakeholders.
- Enthusiastic about TikTok and its community.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137000 - $286200 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
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.
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.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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
Team Introduction
TikTok UX team is responsible for the product design of the core TikTok app. Our key vertical ownership areas include Core app Product Infrastructure, Social, Search, Creation, and Design Systems. Providing professional design methods and practices, the team helps improve user experience and working efficiency of these products and areas.
Responsibilities
- Design robust Design Systems for TikTok, a complex product, work closely with engineers to create high-quality components, and address technical challenges.
- Understand stakeholders' needs comprehensively, including business, design, and engineering, and develop straightforward solutions that enhance business metrics and collaboration efficiency.
- Possess excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills, and manage complex projects involving cross-functional teams.
- Stay updated with visual trends, maintain high aesthetic standards, and consistently enhance user experience.
- Quickly prototype based on conceptual ideas, design user flows using data analysis and user research, gather feedback, refine designs, and deliver products with optimal user experience.
- Continuously improve the overall product experience.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Over 3 years of UX and UI design experience for consumer-facing products on both mobile and web.
- Led multiple projects from strategy to launch with keen attention to detail.
- Skilled in rapid iteration and concept production.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain concepts, vision, and decisions.
- Experienced in collaborating with various organizational stakeholders.
- Open-minded, self-motivated, receptive to feedback, and patient.
- Entrepreneurial, adaptable to rapid changes and less-than-ideal situations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient in A/B testing and data-driven design.
- Knowledge of front-end programming.
- Fluent in English, with Mandarin as an added advantage in order to communicate with global stakeholders.
- Enthusiastic about TikTok and its community.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137000 - $286200 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
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.
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.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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