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About the team
The TikTok Shop team's mission is to create a world class e-commerce experience that helps TikTok users find and discover amazing new products and goods. We're looking for a Content Design Manager to lead and build out the teams in Singapore, China and US to support the e-commerce consumer experience.

The Content Design & Localization team makes the TikTok Shop product easy and delightful to use through clear and expressive UX writing. We sit in the US, Singapore, and China, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to launch and iterate product features that engage our viewers and content creators.

We're looking for a user experience (UX) content design manager who can mentor, grow, and lead a team through UX, design thinking, well-defined content strategy, and advocacy for the discipline. The content design manager helps their team deliver high-visibility, high-impact projects across multiple product verticals.

As a mentor and coach for your team, you'll recruit talented people, onboard new employees, find ways to help individuals develop their strengths, identify opportunities for them to grow within the company, and deliver regular performance feedback to encourage their team to grow.

As a strategic collaborator, you'll actively build relationships with Product Management, Design, Marketing, Legal, Engineering, and Localization teams, and promote content design within TikTok Shops business. To improve cross-functional processes, you'll develop efficient processes, templates, and resources to help the team work smarter, faster, and more effectively.

Responsibilities:
- Recruit and onboard new team members.
- Define efficient, practical solutions and processes for large-scale problems.
- Identify opportunities and share feedback on development, improvement, and growth for direct reports.
- Drive completion of high-quality content in a fast-paced environment.
- Guide direct reports in developing effective content strategies.
- Facilitate projects, align on priorities, allocate resources, drive consensus, and smoothen collaboration with stakeholders across time zones.
- Ensure UI text meets content standards, and be a champion for best practices.
- Align with global teams to drive a cohesive product narrative.
- Establish and maintain a positive team culture, encourage collaboration, and develop skills.
- Provide actionable feedback for your team to drive consistency and improve content quality.

Qualifications

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:
- 8+ years experience in content design, UX writing, content strategy, copywriting, UX, or equivalent fields
- 1+ years experience in managing, mentoring, coaching, and developing a team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Writing portfolio including, but not limited to: user interface copy, microcopy, user education, direct or transactional emails, style guides, and product launch content
- Experience collaborating with Product Management, Design, Legal, Engineering, and Localization teams
- Self-starter who can manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and stay focused when faced with changing requirements

Preferred qualifications:
- Experience using Figma and Jira
- Experience working on a global product with international partners in different time zones
- Strong interest in social app products, user and influencer behavior, and associated trends

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 $172800 - $318960 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.