Senior Data Scientist - TikTok User Growth

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.

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• 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