Product Designer (Instant Messaging) - TikTok UX (San Jose)

Responsibilities

About the team
TikTok Design-IM team focuses on shaping TikTok's messaging experiences end to end, crafting expressive tools and interaction patterns that help millions of users communicate naturally and creatively. Through close collaboration with cross-functional partners, we turn complex product challenges into elegant, user-centered solutions on a global scale.

Responsibilities
- Design consumer-facing products at TikTok that impact hundreds of millions of users globally, with a focus on instant messaging and social interaction experiences.
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to evolve early product ideas into well-defined concepts and scalable design solutions that meet real user needs.
- Take end-to-end ownership of high-impact design projects, from concept exploration through detailed UI design and final delivery.
- Deeply engage with and use the product to build a strong understanding of user behavior and business context; proactively identify opportunities through data analysis and user research, and translate insights into actionable design outcomes.
- Drive product innovation by advocating for user-centered design principles and continuously raising the bar for design quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products in an internet or technology-driven environment.
- Strong end-to-end product design skills, with a solid foundation in UX, UI, and product thinking, as well as comfort working with data to inform decisions.
- High level of ownership and self-motivation, with a demonstrated ability to learn quickly, reflect, and continuously improve through iteration.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; positive, resilient, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Passion for product design and curiosity about emerging technologies and user behaviors

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for web platforms.
- Hands-on experience with user research, usability testing, or experimentation.
- Motion design or interaction animation skills.
- Experience with data analysis or metrics-driven design.
- Familiarity with technical implementation and engineering constraints.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $115200 - $255867 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).