Product Designer; Messaging – UX; San Jose

About the team
Tik Tok Design-IM team focuses on shaping Tik Tok’s messaging experiences end to end, crafting expressive tools and interaction patterns that help millions of users communicate naturally and creatively. Through close collaboration with cross-functional partners, we turn complex product challenges into elegant, user-centered solutions on a global scale.

• Design consumer-facing products at Tik Tok that impact hundreds of millions of users globally, with a focus on instant messaging and social interaction experiences.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to evolve early product ideas into well-defined concepts and scalable design solutions that meet real user needs.
• Take end-to-end ownership of high-impact design projects, from concept exploration through detailed UI design and final delivery.
• Deeply engage with and use the product to build a strong understanding of user behavior and business context; proactively identify opportunities through data analysis and user research, and translate insights into actionable design outcomes.
• Drive product innovation by advocating for user-centered design principles and continuously raising the bar for design quality.