Senior Product Designer, Platform

$137,000 - $229,500/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Jose, CA

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

About the position

As a Senior Product Designer at TikTok, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of our platform. You will collaborate closely with product managers, UX writers, and engineers to execute at every stage of the design lifecycle, ensuring that product experiences are shipped globally. Your responsibilities will include creating user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that address user needs, business goals, and technical constraints. You will leverage both qualitative and quantitative methods for user research to inform your design decisions and enhance the overall user experience. In this role, you will also review product releases qualitatively and work with engineering teams during the handoff phases, both pre and post-launch, to optimize and test compatibility. Your contributions will extend to feature roadmap strategies, improving product design processes, and championing knowledge-sharing opportunities through documentation and post-launch presentations. The Global Product & RD team is focused on building core TikTok products that ensure healthy growth and deliver the best product experience to users while maintaining trust in privacy protection. TikTok is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where creativity thrives. As part of our mission to inspire creativity and bring joy, you will be part of a team that embraces challenges as opportunities for learning, innovation, and growth. We believe in collaboration and driving impact for our company and the communities we serve. Join us in this exciting journey to shape the future of TikTok!

Responsibilities

• Execute at every stage of the design lifecycle with product managers, UX writers, and engineers to ship product experiences globally.
• Create user flows, prototypes, and high fidelity designs that provide multiple solutions based on user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative methods for user research.
• Review product releases qualitatively and work with engineering in handoff phases through pre and post launch to optimize and test compatibility.
• Contribute to feature roadmap strategies, improve product design processes, and champion knowledge sharing opportunities through documentation and post-launch presentations.

Requirements

• 5+ years designing UX for business design including SaaS, PaaS and web design.
• Strong in interaction design, and regularly execute prototypes using tools like Figma.
• Great communication skills to articulate concepts, vision, and decision-making.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Ability to rapidly iterate and produce multiple concepts.
• Results oriented and resilient, fitting within a startup culture that celebrates efficiency and driving impact.
• Ability to work efficiently under high levels of pressure and demanding timelines.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with design systems (design components, icon, color).
• Experience working on complex B2B systems to solve specific enterprise level problems in a professional field.
• Familiarity with development methods.

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 like 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.