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.