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Strategic Operations Intern (TikTok-Search Growth) - 2025 Summer (BS/MS)

San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
$25/hr - $25/hr
Intern
TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Strategic Operations Intern to focus on enhancing user experience and expanding TikTok search in global markets. The intern will collaborate with various teams to improve content quality and user engagement across search and recommendation features.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end content quality and user experience across search and recommendation features, including all search user acquisition channels on TikTok.
  • Deeply understand user intent across various search scenarios; define high-quality experiences through data analysis, user insights, and continuous optimization using LLMs and content understanding strategies.
  • Partner closely with algorithm engineers, product managers, and analytics teams to ensure healthy traffic growth and create standout user scenarios with strong brand perception.

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or above (computer science, information technology, data science, and other related majors are preferred)
  • Strong intuition for user needs and content quality, with the ability to abstract requirements and independently drive strategic planning
  • Background in content strategy, search/recommendation systems, visual search, or AI products is a strong plus
  • Sharp logical thinking, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Preferred

  • Possess a strong sense of logic and creativity, excellent communication abilities, and a desire to improve
  • Possess strong problem-solving and data-analysis abilities, as well as the ability to encourage product development based on data analysis

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
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Founded in 2003
Los Angeles, California, USA
10001+ employees
https://www.tiktok.com
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