Technical Project Manager, Physical Network Infrastructure

Responsibilities

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, 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.

ByteDance Networking brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

ByteDance Networking is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking on a massive scale.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to join our network engineering team. You’ll drive the end-to-end delivery of the systems behind ByteDance and work with various team members to inspire creativity and bring joy to users around the globe.

Responsibilities

• As a TPM, you’ll be the bridge between various teams across countries, working closely with people from Product, Engineering and various ByteDance teams, driving the end-to-end delivery of new products and features to market, inspiring creativity and bring joy to our users around the globe.
• Manage a variety of complex, cross-functional programs and lead all aspects of assigned programs delivery.
• Create and maintain the Roadmap for the teams you work closely with, along with the respective Tech and Product leaders.
• Define the way of driving these programs and constantly find ways of improving this process in a data-driven manner. You’ll be the owner of the collaboration process and tools.
• Embrace ByteDance culture and principles and promote an environment that embodies ByteDance Principle and Values.
• General Project management activities including but not limited to:

1. Prepare the project schedule, define the milestones

2. Track and report progress, identify and mitigate risks, removing blockers;

3. Lead Agile/Scrum teams as a coach or scrum master

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or above with network project delivery or technical leadership background, plus strong organizational and interpersonal skills, will enable you to succeed in ByteDance’s fast paced environment.
• Good understanding of datacenter network knowledge, include but not limit to switches, routers, cabling, rack integration, routing and switching concept etc.
• An understanding of Agile is desirable but not essential, more important than your specific skillset is your ‘can do’ attitude and willingness not to be constrained by your job description.
• Effective communication skills to handle comms to teams, management and cross functional stakeholders at all levels, and a proven track record of getting things done/shipping projects.
• Experience working in a dynamic, fast-moving environment where self-motivated, autonomy and self-decision making is needed (to an extent) and juggle between multi projects/tasks.
• Passionate about the Internet industry and willing to grow with the company in the process of learning by dealing with emerging global issues and challenges.