Job Description
Location:
San Jose Team: Business development
Employment Type: Regular
Job Code: A237466
Responsibilities
The Business Office is responsible for strategy-related work, providing support for ByteDance's businesses from multiple perspectives including strategy, user research, data science, and macro research.
1. Continuously track cutting-edge developments in the global AI ecosystem, including LLM, multimodality, AI Agent, tool calling, inference optimization, infrastructure evolution, and application scenarios
2. Deliver well-structured research and analysis with clear business implications
3. Identify next-generation product and partnership opportunities driven by model capability upgrades, and provide judgmental, decision-oriented strategic recommendations
4. Coordinate resources across engineering, product, BD, legal, and external partners, translate high-level strategic alignment into clear integration roadmaps and execution plans
5. Understand core technical constraints including API capability boundaries, model deployment limitations, latency, and cost structures
6. Build revenue models, value forecasting, and long-term benefit evaluation frameworks; design effectiveness measurement and tracking systems for partnership projects
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications(s)
1. Professional experience in AI research, product strategy, partnership management, consulting, investment, business development, or related fields
2. Systematic understanding of the AI/LLM ecosystem evolution
3. Proven experience driving cross-team technical projects
4. Excellent structured thinking, communication, and presentation skills
5. Ability to maintain strong judgment and execution in a fast-paced, high-uncertainty environment
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $108000 - $220400 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at
Job Tags
Temporary work, Work at office, Local area