DEVELOPER AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATE - GENERALIZED ARCH

Company: Tik Tok
Location: San Jose
Posted on: November 16, 2024

Job Description:

Responsibilities

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

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the team:
TikTok External Tech Impact team is committed to strengthening the ties between TikTok and the tech community, including academic institutions, conferences, and industry organizations. Our mission is to amplify TikTok's presence and extend our reach, ensuring that our technologies are well-represented and supported within the developer ecosystem.

Responsibilities:
- High responsibility for continuous improvement in TikTok technical documentation, blogs, and the
community forum;
- Identify high-potential developer communities, refine messaging to attract new developers, and highlight gaps in developer experience for our product team; Build awareness of TikTok technologies in the industry;
- Lead Technical team involvement in relevant conferences, Hackathons, and Meetups, including oversight of our annual developer conference;
- Participate in technical and academic communities as a practitioner developing an understanding of those communities' needs;
- Acquire and synthesize feedback/sentiment to drive improvement to TikTok products and to the overall experience of the TikTok product family;
- Build and foster an external ecosystem of community influencers, meetups, hackathons, summits, and experts that amplify our messages and extend our reach.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience working in and with developer relations, leading technology standard incubation.
- 1 year of experience presenting at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, or leading an open-source community is preferred;
- Ability to be diplomatic and influence technical practitioners, stakeholders, and globally distributed teams;
- Ability to work globally and collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with at least 1 technology area. Privacy-enhanced techniques (PET) for ensuring data privacy and confidentiality;
- Familiarity with privacy or technology law, policy, programs, or other related fields.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok 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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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