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About Team
The Product Data Analytics Team analyzes a combination of product usage and product performance data to derive meaningful insights that would serve as a guide to better product and decision making for our business leaders.
As a member of the data science team, you will work with diverse and highly collaborative teams of product managers, engineers, and other data analysts to drive product impact. You will be working on exciting and challenging projects, and convert the insights into real changes, for both new initiatives and scaled products. You are a self-starter who is excited about data, excels in product logic thinking, clear communication, and brings distinctive problem-solving skills and impeccable quantitative modeling experience.

As a Data Scientist, you will be working on designing and monitoring core metrics, identifying the root causes for metric movements through deep dive into the models. The role will cover a wide range of model-driven solutions to deliver superior business outcomes through research and analyses. In particular, this role will leverage the causal structure of user behavior, identify trends and opportunities for user growth and great ecosystem, and guide the product team to make best decisions.

Responsibilities
- Leverage data to solve challenging business problems from full-spectrum of product and business lines, using analytical and statistical approaches.
- Build and improve applicable statistical models, e.g. LTV and ROI prediction, to guide user growth-related decisions.
- Initiate model-driven analysis to provide deep insights into various products. Catch the common rule of problems and establish the inter-product analytic paradigm.
- Work with Product, Operations, Engineering and cross-functional teams to drive product development through analytic, statistical, and algorithmic expertise
- Design, run and analyze A/B experiments to inform and execute the product strategy, and ultimately improve the product and support business decisions.

Qualifications

- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Operations Research, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics).
- 5 years of experience in statistical modeling(Regression, Classification, Clustering, etc.) and machine learning (deep learning) , and experience in user level modeling
- Ability to conduct rigorous analysis and communicate conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proficiency in SQL, Python/R
- Solid communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a diversified environment
- Passion for the Internet industry and data analysis.
- Self-starter with the ability of acquiring an in-depth understanding of the relation between data and user experience/product growth.

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 $132889 - $236800 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.