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Product Operations Intern (TikTok Shop Apps and API) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

Seattle, WA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$28.50/hr - $28.50/hr

Start in 2026 Summer

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. They are seeking a Product Operations Intern to support the Partner Product team in enhancing the Open API Platform and TikTok Shop's App Ecosystem. The intern will conduct market studies, collaborate on product strategy, and participate in the product development lifecycle to ensure quality and optimal user experience.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Conduct extensive quantitative and qualitative market studies to gather deep insights into Sellers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV) Partners and other roles in social content-based Commerce

Partner with the product management team to devise product strategy to ensure long term vision and success for the product

Combine ROI analysis, dependency analysis and other techniques to prioritize the product requirements

Participate in the product development lifecycle, review various artifacts to ensure quality

Participate in user acceptance testing to ensure product quality and optimal user experience prior to product launch

Qualification

API understandingE-commerce experienceAnalytical skillsMarket researchGreat communicatorTeam collaboration

Required

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree

Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026

Great communicator & team-partner. Comfortable navigating complex organizational structures & aligning objectives with cross-functional teams

Analytical, data sensitive & goal-driven. Comfortable with setting ambitious targets, analyzing the status quo, planning a course of action, executing rapid trial & error iterations and constantly improving

Preferred

Familiar with TikTok and mainstream e-commerce platforms, experience in content-based e-commerce is highly preferred

Experience and understanding of APIs and 3P integrations

Benefits

Interns have day one access to health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)

Housing allowance

Company

TikTok

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TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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