Responsibilities
About ByteDance
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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 Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.
About Department
Here in the Organization Culture department, we're the frontline guardians and promoters of our values, mission and vision within the company facing an audience of diversified staff around the world. From diversity & inclusion, study of organizational behaviors and effectiveness to event planning and creative designs of cultural items, our daily work covers a broad spectrum of topics related to people and culture. This role has an RTO expectation of 3 days minimum requirement to the office preferred locations are Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York.
About the team
The Culture Training and Mechanism team is part of ByteDance's Global Organization Culture department. The team is responsible for enhancing awareness, understanding and practice of our company culture. The methods we use to do this are:
Culture training/workshops: Topics such as company history, Mission, ByteStyle, Leadership Principles.
Culture mechanisms/processes: Integrate culture within management mechanisms such as recruiting, onboarding, performance management, recognition and leadership development.
This role will be responsible for designing and developing solutions that drive alignment towards our mission and core values, ensure our culture is embedded and integrated into the employee lifecycle, design company-wide management training and mechanisms that enable the practice of our culture, and develop tailored cultural solutions to meet the needs of our diverse, global businesses.
This role will collaborate with several stakeholders, such as Organisational Culture Business Partners (OCBPs), HR Business Partners, Recruiters, Performance & Incentives Team, HR Operations, & Employer Branding. You'll be supported by our wider Organisational Culture team (comprising of specialists in culture content production, culture events/marketing, culture measurement and Diversity and Inclusion).
The role would suit someone with broad expertise across HR processes, who can think innovatively to define creative ways to embed culture across the employee lifecycle. Then distill the complicated ideas into tangible outputs that drive real value and lasting impact to our employees and leaders. The individual should be comfortable leading through ambiguity, and able to navigate a fast-growing, complex, global business.
What will I do?
-Build deep understanding of our organisational culture, company history and management philosophies and how they influence our ways of working. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
-Support the practice of company culture for employees and leaders through integration of culture into company-wide management training programs and mechanisms, such as recruiting, onboarding, performance management, reward and recognition, cross culture collaboration, leadership development.
-Assess and identify culture gaps from businesses, and proactively design, deliver, and evaluate practical solutions to address cultural challenges.
-Effectively enhance understanding of company culture for employees and leaders; approaches include but are not limited to: development of learning content and toolkits, training development (online/offline), workshop facilitation.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
-Self and Mission driven: Passionate about the potential of our mission to 'Inspire Creativity and Bring Joy' and self-motivated to have a positive impact on society.
-Business centric and solution oriented: Relentless in pursuing solutions to resolve root cause issues, and pragmatic in prioritising solutions which can help individuals/teams achieve actual business results.
-Flexible and agile: Able to navigate ambiguity as responsibilities and priorities may change frequently to meet evolving organizational needs.
-Entrepreneurial and Humble: Willing to innovate and pioneer by challenging assumptions and 'industry norms'. Willing to embrace different perspectives and ways of working.
-Inclusive & Collaborative: Optimising for the greater good of the organisation by creating a collaborative environment where everyone can share their different experiences and perspectives.
-Driven by data, logic and context: Rational in their communication style, to promote information transparency and expose problems candidly.
-Courageous: Dare to take calculated risks and seek challenging goals, rising above boundaries/ limitations.
Applicants should be willing to work from the office a minimum of 3-4 days a week (subject to change), and be willing to travel locally and internationally.
Minimum Qualifications:
-First hand experience in building a culture within your own team/or a client team, which enabled wider business priorities whilst sustaining employee engagement.
-Practical experience designing or implementing/executing a broad range of HR/management processes and systems, such as recruiting, onboarding, performance management, reward/recognition.
-Experience in design, development and delivery/implementation of leadership development workshops and/or employee experience initiatives for Global audiences including the Mainland China population. Business proficiency in Mandarin would be advantageous.
-Subject matter does not need to be HR/ learning related and can be a 'business'/'technical' field.
-Experience in change, project and/or product management. Including needs analysis, business consulting, data mining, stakeholder management, project management.
-Detail-oriented, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable insights.
-A proven track record of global, cross-functional partnership and relationship management. Preferably in a fast-moving, global industry or start-up company.
Preferred Qualifications:
-Experience working in a multi-cultural global organisation is highly advantageous.
-Fluent in English; advantageous to have business proficiency in Mandarin.
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.
ByteDance Inc. 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $124800 - $228000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:
We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
