Data Scientist, Ecommerce - USDS

The e‑commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe Tik Tok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e‑commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, together we can build an e‑commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users.

• 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 the presentation of data to develop strategies for our E‑commerce product.
• Identify and measure 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, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations.
• Develop data pipelines and dashboards to enhance data infrastructure.
• Develop ML models to find potential creators, measuring LTV of users, etc.
• Cooperate with PM/Ops/R&D and other cross‑functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master degree or above, majoring in mathematics, statistics, computer science.
• Proficient in SQL, Tableau and familiar with Python or R for modeling projects.
• 3+ years of working experience in data science, machine learning.
• Effectively communicate and present results of data analyses to stakeholders to drive business impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ecommerce experience.
• Self‑driven, be able to work with cross‑functional teams.

Tik Tok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm.

We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision‑making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.

On‑site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real‑time decision‑making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in‑person schedule up to 5 days a week.

USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually). The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144,000 - $329,334 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…