
Responsibilities
The GenAI & Emerging Products Quality team supports a diverse portfolio of global products across ByteDance, including fast-evolving GenAI and Emerging Product ecosystems. Our mission goes beyond quality auditing. We act as a strategic quality partner to Product, Operations, Policy, Data, and other cross-functional teams, using quality signals, operational insights, and frontline expertise to identify risks, improve processes, strengthen policy implementation, and support safe and sustainable product growth. As our products and technologies continue to evolve, the Quality team plays an important role in ensuring quality and safety considerations are embedded into product decisions, operational changes, launches, and improvement initiatives. As a Quality Team Leader for GenAI & Emerging Products, you will lead a team of IC professionals supporting multiple global products and markets. This role requires a strong combination of people leadership, quality expertise, project management, stakeholder management, and analytical thinking. You will be responsible not only for driving strong quality performance, but also for developing the team, leading cross-functional quality initiatives, managing complex projects, and ensuring Quality operates as an effective partner to Product, Policy, Operations, Data, and other stakeholders. You will work in a fast-moving environment where priorities, products, and risk landscapes evolve quickly. The ideal candidate is comfortable navigating ambiguity, setting direction, influencing stakeholders, and turning quality insights into scalable improvements. Responsibilities: - Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Quality team, including team members across different locations, markets and products. - Manage team performance through regular coaching, feedback, goal setting, performance reviews, and structured development plans. - Manage team capacity, resource allocation, and priorities across multiple products, markets, projects, and evolving business needs. - Lead and coordinate multiple cross-functional projects and initiatives simultaneously, managing timelines, priorities, dependencies, risks, stakeholders, and deliverables. - Act as a project lead for key Quality initiatives, driving projects from planning through execution and ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and timely delivery. - Build strong partnerships with Product, Policy, Operations, Data, BPO, and other global stakeholders, acting as a key Quality point of contact. - Navigate competing priorities and changing business needs, making sound decisions and ensuring the team remains focused on the highest-impact areas. - Represent the Quality team in cross-functional and leadership discussions, communicating performance, project progress, risks, resource needs, and strategic priorities. - Drive operational excellence and identify opportunities to improve team effectiveness, processes, scalability, and overall Quality impact.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s): - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 2+ years of people leadership experience, with a strong track record in coaching, developing, and managing team performance. - Experience in Quality, Trust & Safety, Operations, Risk, Product Operations, or a related environment. - Proven experience leading cross-functional projects or programs across multiple stakeholders, products, or markets. - High attention to detail, with the ability to work independently and adapt quickly in a dynamic environment. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across countries and time zones. - Resilience and emotional maturity, with the ability to support teams operating in content environments. Preferred Qualification(s): - Data analysis and reporting skills; with exposure to AI, Product, Policy, or Data teams.
Job Information
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.
Trust & Safety at ByteDance
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
ByteDance recognises that keeping our platform safe for the ByteDance communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
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 https://tinyurl.com/RA-request