Job Description
Responsibilities
About the team
Livestream Team is committed to creating real-time interactive scenes, As a new form of content, livestream creates value for all parties in the ecology. Livestream provides users with a unique consumption experience and further generalizes content. It is also a new way of employment to provide more direct fan interaction and deepen relationships to authors; It provides healthy and objective revenue to the platform and promotes content exclusivity. It also serves as a new infrastructure for the expansion of ecological boundaries.
You will be responsible for building our next-generation enterprise-level treasury and commercialization SaaS platform. Your core mission is to abstract underlying business complexities into standardized, high-availability middle-office services. By leading the design of a global unified SKU architecture and API integration standards, you will significantly reduce integration costs for various business lines (e.g., Live Streaming, Memberships, Virtual Assets) and empower them to iterate commercial models rapidly.
1. Platform Standardization & Integration
- API Standard & Design: Design and plan core APIs, Webhooks, and SDKs for the commercialization platform. Ensure system interfaces meet high standards of idempotency, version control, and scalability.
- Developer Experience (DX) Optimization: Establish clear, standardized integration protocols and Developer Portals. Continuously optimize the onboarding process to shorten integration cycles and improve delivery efficiency.
- Self-service Configuration Hub: Design high-availability, multi-tenant configuration centers and rule engines. Enable business/ops teams to apply strategies (e.g., pricing, distribution channels) via back-end configurations to enhance SaaS capabilities.
2. Unified SKU & Virtual Asset Architecture
- System Abstraction & Data Modeling: Build a global unified underlying architecture for virtual goods and SKUs. Abstract complex customized requirements into standardized, reusable Data Models and State Machines.
- Virtual Asset Lifecycle Management: Manage cross-business virtual assets, covering SKU creation, multi-currency pricing, inventory, and the underlying logic of the Wallet/Credits (top-up and consumption) model.
- Architecture Evolution: Lead the smooth migration and refactoring of legacy systems. Define clear boundaries between the SKU center and upper-layer business logic to reduce technical debt while ensuring business continuity.
3. Global Tax & Compliance Productization
- Collaborate with Finance, Tax, and Legal teams to embed compliance checks and tax processing into SKU and order flows.
- Design standard Tax Code systems for virtual assets to support automated adaptation to global VAT/GST and Digital Service Tax (DST) rules.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s)
1. Professional Experience: Extensive experience in Product Management, specifically within Open Platforms, API products, SaaS infrastructures, or large-scale E-commerce back-end systems (particularly Commodity/SKU centers).
2. System Abstraction Skills: Proven ability to distill core logic from complex, customized business scenarios. Deep understanding of underlying data models and state transitions.
3. Technical Proficiency: Strong technical literacy. Able to collaborate with Architects/R&D on system boundary definition, API design (RESTful/GraphQL), concurrency, and data consistency.
4. Strategic Prioritization: Strong sense of system boundaries. Ability to balance short-term business delivery with long-term platform scalability when handling multi-stakeholder requirements.
5. Communication: Excellent cross-functional coordination skills to drive consensus across diverse business units and engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (CS), Engineering, or a related technical field.
2. Prior experience in Infrastructure or Core Platform teams within global tech giants or leading Fintech companies.
3. Proficiency in SQL for independent data analysis to evaluate system stability and conversion efficiency.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an Always Day 1 mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
