Data Scientist - Multimedia

Team Introduction The Multimedia Data Scientist team at TikTok focuses on optimizing the app experience for users through data-driven solutions. Collaborating with various teams to enhance content creation journeys, utilizing statistical models and data mining techniques to identify opportunities for personalized user publishing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop the experience metric system and the corresponding monitoring capability across different stages of creation
• Conduct experimentation, define launch standards and provide suggestions on experiment iterations
• Quantify the impact of creation tool performance on user behavior, such as publish rate, retention, and engagement
• Use data mining for understanding user needs and build models that enable personalized publishing experience
• Work with various partners on landing solutions that meet the needs for evolving products
• Build systemic problem solving capability and research on cutting-edge methodologies

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in data science roles, preferably working on mobile application performance analysis and user experience optimization
• Experience working with creation-oriented user behavior
• Proficient in SQL and Python; experience with big data tools such as Hive or Spark.
• Strong background in A/B testing, metric design, and causal inference.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the entertainment industry, streaming, social applications
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with rapid product iterations