Job Description

About the team

TikTok UX team is responsible for the product design of the TikTok app. Our key vertical ownership areas include Core app Product Infrastructure, Social, Creation, and Design Systems. Providing professional design methods and practices, the team helps improve user experience and working efficiency of these products and areas.

1. Drive AI transformation of the design system and workflow — Define how AI agents, skills, and tools apply in design. Turn the design system into an asset that AI can read, consume, and generate from. Explore AI-driven workflows from inspiration to prototype to delivery, unlocking new leverage for the team

2. Build internal AI tools hands-on — Use AI coding tools fluently to independently develop and refine agents, skills, and design tools that accelerate AI adoption across the team

3. Build a design system that scales for product and AI — Apply strong abstraction and innovation to keep the design system and its components scalable and maintainable as product needs evolve, and structured enough to meet the higher bar AI workflows demand

4. Raise app-wide design quality — Apply industry-leading design craft to identify opportunities across business lines and drive holistic optimizations that continuously elevate the overall quality of the app

5. Drive adoption of the design system and AI workflows — Abstract complex problems from business contexts and self-drive design solutions. Maintain clear documentation for the design system and AI workflows (including usage guidelines and best practices), and run training to drive cross-team adoption

6. Partner with engineering across platforms — Work closely with engineers to translate design system standards and components into high-quality engineering implementations; bring cross-platform design capability to ensure consistency across every platform and device