TikTok

Design System Design Intern (Monetization Ads) - 2027 Summer

TikTok • $62K — $104K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Product Design / Interaction Design / HCI / Visual Communication (or equivalent experience)
  • Strong fundamentals in UI craft and interaction thinking
  • Comfortable working in Figma with components and auto layout
  • Available for a 12-week full-time position during Summer 2027
  • Basic understanding of design systems concepts (tokens, component design, governance)
  • Experience collaborating with engineers through projects or hackathons
  • Familiarity with accessibility basics (WCAG, keyboard navigation)

Responsibilities

  • Design or extend components, variants, and patterns for TikTok's design system
  • Improve usage guidelines and documentation to reduce ambiguity
  • Assist with UI audits for consistency and system alignment
  • Support adoption and migration by mapping legacy to Keystone patterns
  • Partner with engineers for feasibility and clear handoffs
  • Participate in critiques and design reviews, incorporating feedback effectively

Benefits

  • Day one access to health insurance and life insurance
  • Well-being benefits
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year)
  • Eligibility for housing allowance for non-remote interns
Full Job Description
Responsibilities As the window of TikTok's business services, our TikTok UED Monetization team aims to enable clients to effortlessly connect with audiences and maximize brand potential. We want to ease and inspire clients to achieve their goals, explore more possibilities, and create value with TikTok. We're hiring a Design System Design Intern to help evolve Keystone, the design system powering TikTok's Monetization products (ads and business-facing experiences). Keystone enables product teams to build consistent, high-quality UI through reusable components, patterns, and guidance-improving both user experience and product development efficiency. As an intern, you'll contribute directly to Keystone's core libraries and documentation, partnering with design system designers and cross-functional teams (product design, engineering, content design) to ship scalable system improvements that land in real product surfaces. In this role, you will: - Design or extend components, variants, and patterns (e.g., forms, navigation, tables, empty/error states), and create scalable specs (states, interactions, responsive behavior, accessibility). - Improve usage guidance, do/don't examples, and rationale to reduce ambiguity for product teams. Help maintain libraries and documentation across Figma + Keystone website. - Assist with UI audits for consistency and system alignment. Support adoption and migration by mapping legacy patterns to Keystone equivalents and clarifying best-practice usage. - Partner with engineers to ensure feasibility and crisp handoff. Participate in critiques and design reviews; incorporate feedback quickly and communicate tradeoffs clearly. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: - Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Product Design / Interaction Design / HCI / Visual Communication (or equivalent experience). - Strong fundamentals in UI craft and interaction thinking (states, flows, usability). - Comfort working in Figma (components, variants, auto layout, styles/tokens preferred). - Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2027. Preferred Qualifications - Basic understanding of design systems concepts: tokens, component design, governance, accessibility. - Experience collaborating with engineers (class projects or hackathons count). - Familiarity with accessibility basics (WCAG concepts, keyboard navigation, contrast). - Experience applying AI tools in design workflows (e.g., drafting guidance, synthesizing feedback, generating UI variations), with thoughtful judgment on quality, bias, and privacy. Job Information [For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $30- $50. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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.
Learn more about TikTok
Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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