Data Scientist, Data Foundation & System

$144,000 - $329,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Data Science team at TikTok is focused on building and maintaining an efficient and accurate data system to ensure data quality. The role involves establishing robust mechanisms, monitoring systems, and effective work models to enhance the efficiency of the team's operations and support data-driven decision-making for continuous business optimization and growth.

Responsibilities

• Identify core business metrics and establish a unified metric system, including defining metric calculation methods, data sources, and update frequencies.
• Ensure that the entire data chain from collection, processing, to analysis is clear and accurate.
• Collaborate with data BPs, RD, QA, and business line DS to create mechanisms that ensure data accuracy and effectiveness, and regularly review and update the core metric system.
• Develop data monitoring and alert systems, and establish rapid response and problem-solving processes to ensure that data anomalies and business issues are promptly identified and resolved.
• Explore and optimize data science work models to systematically improve the efficiency of the DS team and enhance external collaboration.
• Use data-driven approaches to identify key business issues, drive relevant analyses, promote solutions, and implement improvement measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in statistics, computer science, economics, data science, quantitative analysis, or related major.
• Proficient in SQL, with practical experience in using Python or other programming languages.
• Solid understanding of the engineering logic behind data processing workflows.
• 2+ years relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in short videos, social media, etc.
• Sensitive to data, able to quickly find the relationship between data and business.
• Excellent communication skills and cross-functional team collaboration ability.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.