Project Intern – Ad Product Experience

Job Description

Product Manager Project Intern (Ads Interface and Platform) – 2026 Start (BS/MS) | TikTok

The Tone:
This is an internship at TikTok, with a potential location of Los Angeles. TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, focused on inspiring creativity and bringing joy to its global users. This role is crucial for optimizing the TikTok advertising product experience, including the ad creation process and underlying infrastructure, providing an intern with firsthand knowledge of advertising products and the advertising business.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Los Angeles
• Pay: $35–$55 hourly
• Team: Ads Interface and Platform team
• Mission: Optimize TikTok’s advertising product experience to enhance advertiser satisfaction and campaign effectiveness.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Design: Assist the project lead in designing and optimizing advertising products, including new product design, experience optimization, and data analysis.
• Understand: Develop an understanding of advertiser optimization habits and advertising delivery mechanisms.
• Analyze: Analyze key factors that impact campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve budget efficiency and campaign effectiveness through data analysis and user research.
• Manage: Help manage the product lifecycle, collaborating with global cross-functional teams from product design and development to go-to-market and requirements gathering.
• Execute: Ensure smooth execution across all product phases to improve system efficiency and customer experience, with a focus on enhancing the advertiser experience on the platform.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Student, currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• Experience: Academic background in computer science or related fields, with technical experience or project work preferred. Must be able to commit to at least a 3-month long internship period, specifically a 12-week full-time work period during Summer 2026.
• Skills: Strong logical thinking and data analysis skills with the ability to break down, analyze, and solve complex problems. Strong organizational, planning, communication, and execution skills; self-motivated and responsible, able to drive projects independently with reliability and simplicity.
• Bonus: Candidates available to work 5 days a week are preferred.