TikTok

Content Design Senior Manager, Ads

TikTok$159K — $360K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in UX writing, content strategy, or related fields
  • Experience managing, mentoring, and developing teams
  • Strong writing portfolio including UI text and style guides
  • Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, or related field (preferred)
  • Proficient in design tools like Sketch and Figma, and project management tools like Asana
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team in user experience and content design initiatives
  • Build relationships with stakeholders in product management and marketing
  • Develop efficient processes and templates for team productivity
  • Facilitate project management and resource allocation across teams
  • Champion best practices and ensure content quality meets standards
  • Align writing teams to foster a cohesive product narrative
  • Identify opportunities for team improvement and provide constructive feedback

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days annually
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time, with increases by tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team As the window of TikTok's business services, our TikTok UED Monetization team aims to enable and inspire clients to effortlessly connect with audiences and maximize brand potential. The Content Design Manager will lead a team through user experience (UX), design thinking, well-defined content strategy, and advocacy for the content design discipline. Through clear, expressive writing, content designers build products that captivate and engage our viewers, and transform product features and concepts so that they're intuitive and easy to understand. You'll actively build relationships with stakeholders, including the TikTok Monetization Product Management, Product Design, Marketing, User Research, Engineering, and Localization teams to promote UX writing within TikTok. To improve cross-functional processes, you'll develop efficient processes, templates, and resources to help the team work smarter, faster, and more effectively. In this role, you will: - Identify opportunities and share feedback on development, improvement, and growth for team members - Work with team leads to build team culture, encourage collaboration, and develop skills - Drive for completion of high-quality work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment - Facilitate projects, allocate resources, and drive consensus with stakeholders across time zones - Help manage and ensure the content experience meets TikTok standards, and be a champion for best practices - Align with writing teams across time zones to drive a cohesive product narrative - Find opportunities for Content Design to shine by leading projects, working on high-impact initiatives, and contributing strategically - Manage priorities to serve business needs while supporting, inspiring, and motivating content designers - Write, proofread, and edit UI text both for your own and reports' projects - Help lead Content Forum to drive consistency and improve content quality - Define efficient, practical solutions and processes for large-scale problems

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Extensive years of experience in UX writing, content strategy, copywriting, UX, or equivalent fields - Extensive years of experience in managing, mentoring, coaching, and developing a team - Writing portfolio including, but not limited to: user interface copy, microcopy, user education, direct or transactional emails, style guides, or product launch content Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Technical Writing, UX, HCI, or equivalent practical experience - Experience using Sketch, Figma, and Asana - Self-starter who can manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and stay focused when faced with changing requirements - Experience building style guides and language systems - Experience collaborating with Product Management, Design, User Research, Engineering, and Localization teams

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $159000 - $360000 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 a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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Size
1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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