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The Ads Platform and Interfaces teams build the advertiser-facing products, platforms, and services businesses use to create, manage, and optimize advertising campaigns on TikTok. Advertisers and internal product teams depend on these systems for seamless, reliable experiences at global scale. We work on complex challenges across scalability, system performance, platform reliability, and rapidly evolving customer needs, on systems where campaign delivery and business outcomes ride on how well they perform. You will shape the core advertising experience, on work with measurable impact for millions of businesses worldwide. The TikTok Marketing API team is responsible for building and managing the foundational programmatic infrastructure for TikTok’s advertising ecosystem. Our scope includes API, MCP, partner integrations, and technology partner and agency co-development. We build the products and platform capabilities that allow developers, partners, agencies, and advertisers to programmatically create, manage, optimize, and scale advertising workflows on TikTok. As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements. Partner with business and product stakeholders to clarify objectives, scope, and success criteria; develop PRDs; and align cross-functional teams and engineering on requirements, dependencies, and delivery milestones to keep execution on track.
- Support product planning and execution for ads integration and plugins capabilities across APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, documentation, sandbox environments, debugging workflows, and overall developer experience.
- Partner closely with engineering to help design and launch developer-facing product improvements, including API capabilities, authentication flows, schemas, validation systems, testing tools, observability, and integration support infrastructure.
- Learn and synthesize the needs of developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and internal teams; help translate those needs into clear product requirements and prioritized opportunities.
- Assist with product discovery and analysis across external partners and internal stakeholders, including workflow research, competitive analysis, technical feasibility assessment, and feedback synthesis.
- Collaborate with partner-facing teams to identify integration pain points, product gaps, adoption blockers, and opportunities to make TikTok’s platform easier and more reliable for developers and partners to use.
- Help define and track success metrics for developer platform products, including API adoption, integration quality, developer satisfaction, documentation quality, tooling usage, and partner impact.
- Work across TikTok’s API surfaces, including Marketing APIs, Organic APIs, Business Messaging APIs, and emerging automation-oriented or AI-enabled platform capabilities.
- Support cross-functional alignment on scoped product priorities, user needs, implementation tradeoffs, and launch readiness.
- Create clear product documents, requirements, analyses, and internal enablement materials to support team alignment and execution.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
- Academic background in computer science or related fields, with technical experience or project work preferred.
- Interest in product management, developer platforms, APIs, SDKs, integrations, automation products, or workflow systems, demonstrated through coursework, projects, research, or prior internship experience.
- Strong technical aptitude and comfort learning about APIs, authentication, request/response structures, integration patterns, developer workflows, and system interactions.
- Ability to break down ambiguous user, partner, or business needs into structured problem statements, product ideas, and actionable next steps.
- Able to intern for 3 months or longer; candidates available to work 5 days a week are preferred.
- Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during winter.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern: The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $33.25 - $52.25. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance. 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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- Exercising sound judgment.
ABOUT TIKTOK
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is 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 bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. 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. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. 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
TikTok 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 TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. 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.
TIKTOK ACCOMMODATION
TikTok 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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
INTRODUCTION
The Ads Platform and Interfaces teams build the advertiser-facing products, platforms, and services businesses use to create, manage, and optimize advertising campaigns on TikTok. Advertisers and internal product teams depend on these systems for seamless, reliable experiences at global scale. We work on complex challenges across scalability, system performance, platform reliability, and rapidly evolving customer needs, on systems where campaign delivery and business outcomes ride on how well they perform. You will shape the core advertising experience, on work with measurable impact for millions of businesses worldwide. The TikTok Marketing API team is responsible for building and managing the foundational programmatic infrastructure for TikTok’s advertising ecosystem. Our scope includes API, MCP, partner integrations, and technology partner and agency co-development. We build the products and platform capabilities that allow developers, partners, agencies, and advertisers to programmatically create, manage, optimize, and scale advertising workflows on TikTok. As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements. Partner with business and product stakeholders to clarify objectives, scope, and success criteria; develop PRDs; and align cross-functional teams and engineering on requirements, dependencies, and delivery milestones to keep execution on track.
- Support product planning and execution for ads integration and plugins capabilities across APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, documentation, sandbox environments, debugging workflows, and overall developer experience.
- Partner closely with engineering to help design and launch developer-facing product improvements, including API capabilities, authentication flows, schemas, validation systems, testing tools, observability, and integration support infrastructure.
- Learn and synthesize the needs of developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and internal teams; help translate those needs into clear product requirements and prioritized opportunities.
- Assist with product discovery and analysis across external partners and internal stakeholders, including workflow research, competitive analysis, technical feasibility assessment, and feedback synthesis.
- Collaborate with partner-facing teams to identify integration pain points, product gaps, adoption blockers, and opportunities to make TikTok’s platform easier and more reliable for developers and partners to use.
- Help define and track success metrics for developer platform products, including API adoption, integration quality, developer satisfaction, documentation quality, tooling usage, and partner impact.
- Work across TikTok’s API surfaces, including Marketing APIs, Organic APIs, Business Messaging APIs, and emerging automation-oriented or AI-enabled platform capabilities.
- Support cross-functional alignment on scoped product priorities, user needs, implementation tradeoffs, and launch readiness.
- Create clear product documents, requirements, analyses, and internal enablement materials to support team alignment and execution.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
- Academic background in computer science or related fields, with technical experience or project work preferred.
- Interest in product management, developer platforms, APIs, SDKs, integrations, automation products, or workflow systems, demonstrated through coursework, projects, research, or prior internship experience.
- Strong technical aptitude and comfort learning about APIs, authentication, request/response structures, integration patterns, developer workflows, and system interactions.
- Ability to break down ambiguous user, partner, or business needs into structured problem statements, product ideas, and actionable next steps.
- Able to intern for 3 months or longer; candidates available to work 5 days a week are preferred.
- Must be able to commit to a 12-week full-time work period during winter.
By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern: The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $33.25 - $52.25. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance. 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:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
- Exercising sound judgment.
ABOUT TIKTOK
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is 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 bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. 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. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. 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
TikTok 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 TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. 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.
TIKTOK ACCOMMODATION
TikTok 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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
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Does a Program Specialist role qualify as a valid CPT position?
Yes, if the work is directly tied to your enrolled program of study. A Program Specialist role involving policy research, grant administration, or stakeholder coordination typically integrates with public policy, international affairs, business administration, or social science curricula. Your DSO makes the final determination based on how well your specific job duties align with your declared major and coursework.
How do I find Program Specialist positions that accept F-1 CPT students?
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for Program Specialist roles. LCA filing history signals that an organization has navigated work authorization paperwork before and is more likely to understand CPT. Government agencies, research institutes, and federally funded nonprofits are common sources of these positions.
Can I work full-time as a Program Specialist on CPT?
You can, but full-time CPT lasting 12 or more cumulative months eliminates your post-completion OPT eligibility entirely. Many Program Specialist internships at government contractors or nonprofits run 40 hours per week. Confirm the weekly hour commitment before accepting the offer and discuss the tradeoff with your DSO if you're weighing a long-term full-time placement against preserving OPT.
What documents does my employer need to onboard me under CPT?
Your employer needs your I-20 with the CPT authorization page showing the specific employer name, work location, and authorization dates. They'll also complete Form I-9 using your CPT-endorsed I-20 and unexpired foreign passport as identity and work authorization documents. If the employer uses E-Verify, your CPT details must exactly match the I-20 to avoid a tentative nonconfirmation.
What happens if my CPT end date falls before my project wraps up?
You must stop working once your CPT authorization expires. Continuing without a valid authorization violates your F-1 status. If the project extends, return to your DSO before the end date to request an extension. Your employer will need to provide updated employment dates in writing, and your school may require proof that the extended work still satisfies the academic requirement.