Product Data Scientist (Community Insights) - Applied AI - San Jose

  • San Jose, CA
  • Posted 21 hours ago | Updated 9 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 144,000.00 - 329,333.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Continuous Integration
Analytics
Product Development
Business Strategy
Go-To-Market Strategy
Product Requirements
Roadmaps
Stakeholder Communications
Unsupervised Learning
Product Design
Market Research
Competitor Analysis
Benchmarking
KPI
Reporting
Computer Science
Statistics
Economics
MBA
Project Management
Preventive Maintenance
Performance Management
Product Management
Monetization
Data Science
Machine Learning (ML)
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Dashboard
SQL
Decision-making
Ideation
Google Tag Manager (GTM)
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Marketing
Sales
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Brand
Customer Facing
PDF
Presentations
Insurance
Life Insurance
Management
Information Technology
Video
LOS
SAFE
Collaboration
Recruiting

Job Details

Location :

San Jose

Employment Type :

Regular

Job Code :

A187140

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Responsibilities

The Community Insights (CI) team provides strategic content understanding solution that helps brands measure their resonance across TikTok's community and uncover emerging trends. By analyzing user interactions and content performance, CI empowers advertisers to make data-driven marketing decisions. The success of CI-and TikTok's broader data-driven monetization strategy-relies on high-quality labeled data and intelligent analytics at scale. As a Product Data Scientist, you will lead the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and productization of our Community Insights solutions. This role sits at the intersection of data science, product development, and business strategy. You will be responsible for translating business and client needs into scalable product roadmaps, defining success metrics, and driving adoption across global markets. Responsibilities
Drive the productization and GTM strategy of Community Insights solutions, from early-stage exploration to scaled deployment.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Science, ML, PM, Sales, and Client Solutions to define product requirements, roadmap, and monetization strategies.
Serve as the bridge between business and technical teams-gather requirements, lead stakeholder communications, and shape narratives for client-facing presentations.
Leverage advanced data science capabilities (e.g., supervised/unsupervised learning, NLP, CV, LLMs) to inform product design and optimize monetization opportunities.
Translate qualitative and quantitative findings into actionable features that address client needs and increase adoption and retention.
Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and product benchmarking to inform prioritization and feature development.
Own and track product success core KPI metrics; build dashboards and reporting pipelines to monitor adoption and business impact.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics) or a business-related field (e.g., Economics, MBA). Advanced degrees or PM certifications are a plus. - 3+ years of industry experience in product management, preferably in adtech, data-driven platforms, or monetization-related products. - Strong product intuition and a customer-centric mindset to identify pain points and translate them into scalable, impactful solutions. - Strong understanding of content understanding frameworks and monetization models along with familiarity with data science technologies such as machine learning, NLP, LLMs, and computer vision, with the ability to translate complex concepts into intuitive insights via dashboards, presentations, or client-facing reports. - Proficient in SQL with the ability to extract and prepare data for analysis and product decision-making. - Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building data or content understanding products from 0 to 1, with full-cycle ownership from ideation to launch and iteration. - Proven experience driving GTM strategies across multiple global regions (e.g., CNOB, NA, EU, APAC). - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of aligning cross-functional teams and influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Familiarity with brand marketing needs from advertisers, and experience collaborating with client solutions or sales teams to optimize product offerings. - Hands-on experience with generative AI or multimodal models (e.g., T2V, V2T, CLIP) applied to content intelligence or brand insights. - Experience crafting client-facing reports such as branded PDF deliverables or insight storytelling presentations.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $329333 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).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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.

Trust & Safety

TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.

We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.

TikTok Accommodation

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

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