TikTok Shop - Data Scientist - Content

Seattle, Washington, US Until 9/5/2026 5+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted July 7, 2026
Job description

Description

As the core team of TikTok Shop, Content Data Science team focuses on improving user-side product experience, user interaction, and transaction conversion of shoppable content. We study how users discover, consume, and interact with shoppable content, and how these behaviors ultimately drive purchasing decisions.

We work closely with Product, Operation, Recommendation, and Engineering teams to use data and experimentation to optimize content formats, interaction design, and distribution strategies. At the same time, we build scalable metrics frameworks, analytical methodologies, and data tools to support long-term decision making in the e-commerce content domain.

Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for data analysis work related to TikTok Shop shoppable content and user growth business and provide insightful analytical capabilities for the business
- Accurately and comprehensively understand the business, assist in setting business growth goals, decompose key achievement paths, and implement robust process monitoring and early warning measures
- Dissect the driving factors of business growth, diagnose growth-related issues, investigate and attribute data anomalies, and build automated anomaly attribution tools
- Conduct special analysis on critical issues, gain insights into the essence of problems, and propose data-driven optimization suggestions or solutions
- Demonstrate excellent organizational and collaboration skills; partner with product R&D, data and algorithm teams to support strategy iteration through rigorous analysis, data mining, causal inference, A/B testing and other methods, drive the implementation of optimization plans, quantitatively evaluate strategy effectiveness, and boost key business metrics
- In the course of supporting business development, think and summarize proactively, and precipitate growth analysis methodologies and data efficiency tools

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related fields, with 5+ years of work experience
- Proficiency in statistical analysis tools such as SQL, Python and R; mastery of analytical methods including regression, classification, clustering, machine learning, A/B testing and causal inference
- Excellent communication and logical thinking skills, with structured thinking, acute data insight, rigorous attention to detail and a strong sense of curiosity
- Strong organizational and collaboration capabilities, self-motivated work attitude and resilience

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in user product analysis or the data science field in internet companies
- Industry experience related to content supply, consumption and user growth

About this role

Summary

Analyze TikTok Shop content data to optimize user experience and drive growth.

Job title

TikTok Shop - Data Scientist - Content

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Seattle, WA; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

SQLPythonRregressionclassificationclusteringmachine learningA/B testingcausal inference

Preferred skills

user product analysiscontent supplyuser growth

Specializations

content analysisuser growthA/B testingcausal inference
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

On-site City