Product Operations Intern ( Shop Apps and API - Summer; BS​/MS

About the team

Our Partner Product team is responsible for our Open API Platform and Tik Tok Shop's App Ecosystem for 1P and 3P partners. This team focuses on products that will empower partners to collaborate with the platform together, providing rich and diverse service capabilities to help merchants and creators to operate more effectively and efficiently. We are looking for a product manager who will be responsible for collection of users’ requirements and partner product design to provide our target users/clients with effective product solutions.

• Conduct extensive quantitative and qualitative market studies to gather deep insights into Sellers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV) Partners and other roles in social content-based Commerce.
• Partner with the product management team to devise product strategy to ensure long term vision and success for the product.
• Combine ROI analysis, dependency analysis and other techniques to prioritize the product requirements.
• Participate in the product development lifecycle, review various artifacts to ensure quality.
• Participate in user acceptance testing to ensure product quality and optimal user experience prior to product launch.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026.
• Great communicator & team-partner. Comfortable navigating complex organizational structures & aligning objectives with cross-functional teams.
• Analytical, data sensitive & goal-driven. Comfortable with setting ambitious targets, analyzing the status quo, planning a course of action, executing rapid trial & error iterations and constantly improving.

• Familiar with Tik Tok and mainstream e-commerce platforms, experience in content-based e-commerce is highly preferred.
• Experience and understanding of APIs and 3P integrations.

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $28.5- $28.5.

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.

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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At Tik Tok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Tik Tok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Inspiring creativity is at the core of Tik Tok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech…