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TikTok's User Growth team leads growth initiatives for TikTok and all its platforms with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset. We are seeking talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering to help us reach the next milestone of billions of users.

You'll have the opportunity to build best-in-class onboarding experiences for our users as well as define A/B testing frameworks to measure and improve user retention rate. We encounter a diversity of technical challenges, allowing you to get a firsthand look at what technologies the most innovative organizations are using and be able to build up a bottom-up growth strategy from scratch. You'll be joining a full-stack team that can leverage all of TikTok's existing frameworks and be a part of designing and implementing new techniques and foundation work that can further improve user experience and showcase TikTok's value proposition.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will:
• Help define and execute projects geared towards user acquisition, engagement and retention growth
• Build out reporting to track product performance using data visualization tools.
• Bring strong desire to learn in a fast paced environment while collaborating with business stakeholders and technical leads
• Exercise a high level of empathy in order to help the business identify and prioritize data needs and define proper metrics to measure initiative success
• Use data to bring actionable insights that will help teams execute on their long-term strategy and inform them how well they're performing at their goals
• Be part of a leading company with high standards, and help us push the User Growth team to the next level

Qualifications

• Solid analytical skills. Proficiency in statistical analytical tools, such as SQL and Python.
• Familiarity with social/content online platform analytics, especially metrics design, product feature analytics, A/B testing and causal inference methodologies. Bonus given to proficiency in causal discovery machine learning skills.
• Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in a result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy.

Preferred Qualification
• Bachelor degrees or above in computer science, statistics, math, internet security or other relevant majors.
• 3 years of work experience in data analytics/science or other relevant fields.

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 $176356 - $329333 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.