Partnership Manager - TikTok Local Services - Los Angeles

About the Team

TikTok Local Services (TikTok GO) acts as a comprehensive commerce platform linking global users with local service providers by leveraging TikTok's Points of Interest (POI), short-form videos, live streams, and search capabilities. It aims to enrich real-world user interactions and motivate discovery of nearby offerings.

With the purpose of "Discover great places, Empower local businesses," this initiative seeks to be the premier trusted hub for users to find outstanding local destinations and facilitate connections with local enterprises. The platform supports community engagement with restaurants, hotels, and attractions while providing businesses novel marketing and operational tools to foster sustainable growth.

Job Overview

This role oversees daily operations related to TikTok Local Services (TTLS) agencies, managing agency qualification, onboarding, risk management, and exits to ensure streamlined functioning.

Key Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement growth strategies for partnerships that align with business goals and promote achievement of defined commercial and ecosystem objectives.
• Discover key opportunities to expand agency relationships, enhance partner outcomes, and increase long-term agency ecosystem value.
• Examine market trends, agency metrics, creator monetization trends, and business analytics to extract strategic insights and propose growth initiatives.
• Create and optimize incentive models and partnership policies aimed at fostering sustainable business results, enhancing partner involvement, and supporting scalable expansion.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to outline strategic priorities, develop business plans, and initiate programs to boost agency skills, improve creator quality, and maximize monetization.
• Conduct strategic evaluations of agency performance to highlight challenges, growth drivers, and prospects for business advancement.
• Maintain strong advisory relationships with key agency partners to assist in business growth and sustainable operations within the platform's ecosystem.
• Work alongside product, operations, policy, and data teams to enhance agency management tools, systems, and processes to support efficiency and scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with relevant experience in partnerships, key account management, growth strategies, internet monetization, or channel strategy.
• Demonstrated history of successfully collaborating with external partners such as agencies, creators, or commercial stakeholders to drive business development and cultivate lasting partnerships.
• Preferred attributes include proactive work ethic, capacity for independent complex analysis with minimal supervision, and effective communication of insights.
• Experience in areas such as the creator economy, digital content, livestreaming, marketplace platforms, agency management, or internet monetization is advantageous.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading platform for short-form mobile video content, dedicated to fostering creativity and joy worldwide. Headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore, it also operates offices globally, including in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

TikTok prioritizes creativity and innovation, driving authentic user expression and connection. The company values diverse and inclusive teams that undertake challenges collaboratively and continuously innovate with an "Always Day 1" mindset, aiming to achieve meaningful progress.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is devoted to creating an inclusive environment that respects varied skills, experiences, and perspectives. The workplace mirrors the diverse communities it serves globally.

Accommodation

The company is committed to reasonable accommodations throughout recruitment for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, religious beliefs, or legally protected reasons.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position in Los Angeles is $70,304 to $159,600 annually, adjusted based on qualifications and location. Additional components include discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits commence from day one and encompass medical, dental, vision insurance, retirement savings with matching, paid leave, disability and life insurance, wellbeing programs, and various paid holidays and personal days.

Equal Opportunity and Fair Chance Policy

For candidates in Los Angeles County, the company adheres to all laws regarding hiring applicants with arrest or conviction records, considering the potential impact such history may have regarding job functions including client interactions, confidential information handling, and exercising judgment.