TikTok · 20 hours ago
Data Scientist Lead - TikTok Short Video
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$201K/yr - $395K/yr
5+ years expTikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Data Scientist Lead for their User Growth Team. The role involves driving user growth through data analysis, collaborating with product and operation teams, and optimizing architectures and systems to enhance business development.
Social MediaVideoMedia and EntertainmentMarketingContent CreatorsContent Discovery
Responsibilities
Be responsible for data analysis work related to TikTok's user growth business and provide insightful analytical capabilities for the business
Accurately and comprehensively understand the business, assist in setting business growth goals, decompose key achievement paths, and implement robust process monitoring and early warning measures
Dissect the driving factors of business growth, diagnose growth-related issues, investigate and attribute data anomalies, and build automated anomaly attribution tools
Conduct special analysis on critical issues, gain insights into the essence of problems, and propose data-driven optimization suggestions or solutions
Demonstrate excellent organizational and collaboration skills; partner with product R&D, data and algorithm teams to support strategy iteration through rigorous analysis, data mining, causal inference, A/B testing and other methods, drive the implementation of optimization plans, quantitatively evaluate strategy effectiveness, and boost key business metrics
In the course of supporting business development, think and summarize proactively, and precipitate growth analysis methodologies and data efficiency tools
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related fields, with 5+ years of work experience
Proficiency in statistical analysis tools such as SQL, Python and R; mastery of analytical methods including regression, classification, clustering, machine learning, A/B testing and causal inference
Excellent communication and logical thinking skills, with structured thinking, acute data insight, rigorous attention to detail and a strong sense of curiosity
Strong organizational and collaboration capabilities, self-motivated work attitude and resilience
Preferred
Experience in user product analysis or the data science field in internet companies
Industry experience related to user growth
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
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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CEO
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