TikTok

Senior Data Scientist (Multiple Positions)

TikTok$275K — $296K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in a quantitative field or Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience
  • 2 years in data mining, preparation, cleansing, and analysis using SQL, Python, and R
  • Experience using SQL and data visualization tools for large data sets
  • Proficiency in creating graphical data representations using Excel or Tableau
  • 2 years of experience in building and validating statistical models in Python or R

Responsibilities

  • Provide insights for business decisions using statistics, ML, and programming
  • Apply quantitative analysis for actionable insights and measurement
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify trends and opportunities
  • Build machine learning models for data classification and clustering
  • Visualize analytics into clear narratives for executive audiences
  • Work with complex data sets to address non-routine analysis problems
  • Mentor junior Data Scientists and interns

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays per year and sick days
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time that increases with tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Provide insights to support business decisions using advanced statistics, machine learning (ML), and programming. Apply quantitative analysis to understand data, provide actionable insights, and measure the data through experimentation and causal inference. Partner with Product, Engineering, User Research, Designer and other teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities. Build classification and clustering machine learning models to understand data characteristics. Visualize and synthesize analytics and statistical approaches into easy-to consume storylines for the team to provide indicated actions for executive audiences. Work with large, complex data sets to solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems by applying advanced analytical methods as needed. Apply quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and millions of businesses. Interact cross-functionally, making business recommendations with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information. Mentor junior and intern Data Scientists.

Qualifications

Qualifications Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Quantitative Management, Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, and 2 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Quantitative Management, Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, and 5 years of post-bachelor's, progressive related work experience. Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in each of the following: Mining, preparing, cleansing, and analyzing structured data using statistical computing languages SQL, Python, and R for metrics creation and root cause analysis; Using SQL queries and data visualization tools to gather, process, visualize, and analyze large quantities of data to detect trends and anomalies in support of business opportunity identification; Developing graphical and visual representations of data using business intelligence tool Excel or Tableau; and Building, tuning, and validating statistical models for regression and classification problems in Python or R. Travel Requirement: International travel required up to 5%. Type: Full time, 40 hours/week Location: San Jose, CA Salary Range: $275850 - $296400 per year To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact [redacted] if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $275850 - $296400 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
Industry
Founded
2012

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