Product Manager Intern, Partner Product (Summer 2026 MBA Intern)

Job Description

About Company: TikTok

TikTok is a leading global destination for short-form mobile video, with a core mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. The company’s global headquarters are located in Los Angeles and Singapore, supported by additional offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

TikTok’s company culture emphasizes inspiring creativity and enabling authentic self-expression. They achieve this through diverse global teams that foster a collaborative environment, creating value for communities and bringing joy daily. The company strives to do great things with great people, leading with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an impact in a rapidly growing tech company. They view challenges as opportunities to learn and innovate, promoting resilience and an “Always Day 1” mindset to achieve meaningful breakthroughs for employees, the company, and its users.

Diversity & Inclusion: TikTok is committed to building an inclusive workspace where every employee is valued for their unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Recognizing that their platform connects people globally, they aim for a workplace that reflects the diversity of the many communities they reach. They are passionate about celebrating diverse voices and creating an inclusive environment.

Accommodation: TikTok is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations throughout its recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other reasons protected by applicable laws. Assistance or reasonable accommodation requests can be made via a provided link.

About the Job: Product Manager Intern, Partner Product (Summer 2026 MBA Intern)

This internship is with TikTok’s Partner Product team, which is responsible for the Open API Platform and TikTok Shop’s App Ecosystem, catering to both 1P (first-party) and 3P (third-party) partners. The team’s primary focus is on developing products that empower partners to collaborate effectively with the platform, offering a wide array of service capabilities to enhance merchants’ and creators’ operational efficiency and effectiveness. As an intern, you will contribute to collecting user requirements and designing partner products to deliver effective solutions to target users and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Product Design & Documentation: You will be responsible for the function, architecture design, prototype design, and PRD (Product Requirements Document) writing for partner products. This includes, but is not limited to, the planning and design of Open APIs, Open platforms, and various seller integration tools.
• Product Iteration & Business Outcomes: Through comprehensive data analysis, you will identify product issues, explore seller requirements, and continuously iterate on products to enhance the seller experience. A key aspect of this role is being accountable for the business outcomes related to product usage by sellers, such as the seller onboarding success rate, catalogue assortment coverage rate, and fulfillment success rate.
• Product Lifecycle Management: You will ensure complete product lifecycle management, from the initial design phase through development, launch, and subsequent iterations. This requires effective collaboration with multiple internal departments.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Currently pursuing an MBA degree.
• Commitment: Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026.
• Platform Familiarity: Familiarity with the product functions and integration design of mainstream DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) platforms (e.g., Shopify, WooCommerce, SFCC) and third-party seller tools (e.g., Rithum, Zendesk, Yotpo).
• Experience: Previous engagement in integration product design or seller tool product design for related platforms.
• Skills: Possesses excellent product experience design capabilities, strong logical analysis skills, and robust data analysis skills, all underpinned by a keen business perspective.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills. Must be able to flexibly adjust strategies in complex environments and ensure the smooth progress of projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• E-commerce Knowledge: Familiarity with TikTok and mainstream e-commerce platforms. Experience in content-based e-commerce is highly preferred.
• Technical Understanding: Experience and understanding of APIs and 3P (third-party) integrations.

Job Information:

Compensation: For this Campus Intern position, the hourly rate range in the selected city is $34 – $53.

Benefits: Interns receive day one access to a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits. They are also entitled to 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 hours if hired in the second half of the year). Interns who are not working 100% remotely may also be eligible for a housing allowance. The company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time.

Note for Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: In accordance with federal, state, and local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment. The company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on specific job duties, potentially leading to the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. These duties include:
• 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.
• Exercising sound judgment.