TikTok
Senior Product Manager, API Developer Platform
San Jose, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years or more of product management or closely related experience.
About the job
Owns the roadmap and delivery of TikTok developer platform products that support API integrations and AI-native advertising workflows.
What you'll do
- Define and manage the roadmap for APIs, SDKs, CLI and MCP tooling, agentic workflows, documentation, and developer experience.
- Partner with engineering and other teams to design and ship scalable platform capabilities and improve developer integrations.
- Research developer and partner needs, set product priorities and success metrics, and align stakeholders on platform strategy.
What they ask for
- 5 years or more of product management or closely related experience in developer platforms, API products, SaaS platforms, advertising technology, AI products, or enterprise software.
- Experience owning technical products such as APIs, SDKs, developer tools, platform infrastructure, integrations, automation products, or workflow systems.
- Strong technical fluency with APIs, authentication, request/response structures, webhooks, integration patterns, developer workflows, and system interactions.
- Ability to translate ambiguous needs into product strategy, requirements, roadmap priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience building or managing AI-native developer platforms, agent tooling, MCP servers/tools, AI workflow products, LLM-integrated applications, or developer tools for AI agents.
- Experience with advertising APIs, marketing technology platforms, commerce platforms, or partner ecosystem products.
Tools
APIs, SDKs, CLI, MCP, LLMs, RAG
AI focus
The role develops AI-native developer platform capabilities and evaluates agentic workflows, MCP and tool-calling standards, agent frameworks, and AI ecosystem strategy.
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