Senior Creative Designer- Effect

Team Introduction
Effect team aims to inspire our users to record and express themselves through effects, driving user publish and social interaction across various TikTok and off-TikTok scenarios. With rich multimedia design experience, we provide creative effects, real-time effects, graphic effects, post-production effects, filters, beautifying, face shaping, Al images, etc. We also explore Al applications to simplify content creation for UGC across various topics.

Responsibilities
- Special Effects Creative Planning: Deeply understand the user characteristics and popular trends of the TikTok platform. Combine market demands and product positioning to independently plan innovative and appealing special effects creative concepts, including the theme, gameplay, and interaction methods of the special effects, providing a clear direction and ideas for special effects design.
- Special Effects Packaging Design: Utilize professional design skills to conduct visual packaging design for special effects, ensuring that the special effects have a unique visual style and high-quality presentation. This can attract users' attention and enhance their usage experience.
- Cross - departmental Collaboration: Collaborate closely with teams such as product, R & D, and operations. Thoroughly understand business requirements and technical limitations, transform creative concepts into feasible special effects design plans, and provide professional design support and guidance during the development, testing, and launch of special effects, ensuring that the final effect of the special effects meets the design expectations.
- User Feedback Analysis: Pay attention to users' feedback and evaluations of special effects, collect and analyze relevant data. Optimize and improve special effects in a timely manner according to user needs and market trends, continuously enhancing the quality of special effects and user satisfaction.
- Knowledge Sharing and Guidance: As a senior designer, be able to provide professional technical guidance and creative inspiration to other designers in the team, share your own experience and skills, and help team members improve their design level and professional capabilities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree or above in related majors such as Visual Communication Design, Digital Media Art, Animation Design, etc.
- Work Experience: Over 5 years of special effects design work experience. Those with rich experience in special effects design for short video platforms (such as TikTok) are preferred. Have cases of special effects works that have been successfully launched and received wide attention.
- Design Skills: Proficient in design and animation production software such as Photoshop, After Effects, and Cinema 4D. Have a solid fine arts foundation and good aesthetic ability, and be able to independently complete the creative design and production of special effects.
- English Ability: Have good English reading and writing skills, be able to fluently read English technical documents, communicate and collaborate with international teams, and understand and apply international cutting-edge design concepts and technologies.
- Sense of Responsibility: Be serious and responsible in work, have strong execution ability and self-motivation, be able to complete work tasks on time with high quality, and be accountable for work results.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Have experience in applying AIGC-related technologies in the design field, such as using AI tools for image generation, animation production, and special effects creative assistance.
- Be familiar with the special effects review standards and user preferences of the TikTok platform, and be able to accurately grasp the special effects design direction of the platform.
- Have a certain data analysis ability, and be able to optimize special effects design and user experience through data analysis.

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 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $91000 - $172800 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.