Data Scientist, Ecommerce - USDS

TikTok6 months ago
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

Join our e-commerce ecosystem team at TikTok, where passionate and talented individuals drive innovative product and operations initiatives in a rapidly growing market. With millions of loyal users globally, we aim to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience. Our organization follows a hybrid work schedule requiring employees to work in the office 3 days a week (or as directed by your manager), with the model reviewed regularly.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with large and complex datasets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches.
  • Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and presentation of data to develop strategies for our E-commerce product.
  • Identify and measure the success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
  • Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, driving roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
  • Develop data pipelines and dashboards to enhance data infrastructure.
  • Develop ML models to identify potential creators and measure the lifetime value (LTV) of users.
  • Cooperate with PM, Operations, R&D, and other cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy as well as investment decisions.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree or above; majoring in mathematics, statistics, or computer science is preferred.
  • Proficient in SQL and Tableau; familiar with Python or R for modeling projects.
  • 3+ years of working experience in data science and machine learning.
  • Self-driven and capable of working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • E-Commerce experience.
  • Ability to effectively communicate and present data analysis results to stakeholders, driving business impact.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Compensation: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136,800 - $228,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside this range based on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is part of a Total Package that may include additional discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.
  • Benefits: Employees receive 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; and wellbeing benefits.
  • Other perks include 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).

Required Skills

Tableau
Python
Dashboard Development
Cross-functional Collaboration
Data Science
Data Mining
Statistical Analysis
Data Pipelines
Machine Learning
SQL