Senior Tech Lead Manager

Responsibilities

**About TikTok**:
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

**About Video Creation Team**:
Our team's mission is to empower TikTok users to turn creativity into reality via videos. We build the core video creation product to support tens of millions of TikTok creators every day. All the viral props and effects you find on TikTok are developed by us, via close collaboration with TikTok AR effects and multimedia teams. Our goal is to build the world's best video creation software. On this team, you will be working with our XFN partners to define a world-class video creation experience, designing the architecture of TikTok video creation tools and pipelines, and shipping cutting-edge features to take TikTok to the next level.

**As a Tech Lead Manager for the Creation team, you will**:

- Lead Android and iOS engineering teams with a group of top level engineers, to achieve business results in businesses such as template, editing and other innovative creation directions.
- Deeply analyze and explore the shortcomings of the existing system, design the architecture of creation and improve gross performance.
- Think deeply about various problems in the process of R&D, and promote the improvement of team R&D efficiency and engineering quality.
- Responsible for the promotion of key projects with good project management and coordination and communication skills.
- Introduce new technologies and solutions to the team according to actual business needs.
- Work closely with multinational R&D teams to promote cross-regional cooperation projects and have the opportunity to work in multiple locations.

**Qualifications**:

- Have rich experience in architectural design, can accurately and comprehensively understand the business, and design a reasonable overall architectural scheme according to the business situation.
- Ability to design an engineering solution to solve ambiguous problems.
- Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of iOS or Android platforms.
- Proficiency in Objective-C or Swift or Java or Kotlin or C++.
- With good communication skills, organizational skills and team spirit.
- Passion and experience building creation-facing products is a huge plus; we would love to hear about apps you've developed

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.