About the Role

E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on Tik Tok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists that focus on E-commerce recommendations. We are developing innovative algorithms and techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, converting creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited in applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to design, build, optimize large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithm pipeline
• Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently.
• Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking (eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction), including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation.
• Build, expand and manage the global e-commerce recommendation team from scratch
• Collaborate with strategy team, product managers, policy team and ops team to define products and drive initiatives from engineering viewpoints

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 3+ years of working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation system, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.
• Experience in leading an engineering team
• Strong sense of responsibility and good at communication and teamwork
• Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187,040 - $438,000 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

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.

Los Angeles County Compliance

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.