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 imaginations 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.

Our economists team collaborate with business teams to understand their challenges, develop a research agenda, design pilots and measure their impact. We are looking for candidates who are creative thinkers with strong technical economic toolbox. Our partner teams are algorithm engineers, marketing, seller & creator growth, user growth, resource management, etc.

Responsibilities:
Quickly convert a real business requirement into a solvable modeling problem. Use economic thinking and scientifically rigorous methods(including but not limited to causal inference methods, economic modelling, experimentation) to facilitate decision making related to product functions, recommendation & search algorithm strategies, operations, and other business strategies. Specifically:
1. Develop a systematic framework to causally evaluate the impact of various policies and strategies;
2. Predict the long-term impact of policies and strategies;
3. Increase the impact of business actions by identifying & understanding key mechanisms;
4. Optimize traffic/cost (e.g. marketing expense) allocation;
5. Improve the ecosystem of TikTok ecommerce, including but not limited to seller growth, product supply, content supply, governance, and user growth.