Partnership Development Specialist - LLM Data Acquisition and Production

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 Seed Team Founded in 2023, ByteDance Doubao(Seed) Team is dedicated to crafting the industry's most advanced AI foundation models. We aim to lead global research and foster both technological and social progress. With a long-term vision and a strong commitment to the AI field, the Team conducts research in a range of areas including natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and speech recognition and generation. It boasts a robust international presence with labs and research facilities in China, Singapore, and the US. Leveraging substantial data and computing resources and through continued investment in these domains, our team has built a proprietary general-purpose model with multimodal capabilities. This model supports over 50 downstream business services including Doubao, Coze, and Dreamina, which are available to enterprise customers via the Volcano Engine. Currently, the Doubao App is the most used AIGC application in the China market. About the team LLM Global Data is a team focused on producing international data for LLMs. For the training of large models, data is the lifeline of model quality — and the Global Data team is working closely with technical, product, and operations teams to ensure effective data production strategies and execution management. There's a lot to do, and there's substantial room for impact, similar to TikTok 5 years ago. Responsibilities Summary: As a Partnership Development Specialist, you will serve as a crucial bridge between internal teams and external resources. Through effective communication and collaboration, you will acquire high-quality external resources and industry information to support the company's business needs. Your work will focus on resource development, resource implementation, and resource enhancement, ensuring the success of collaboration projects, driving overall operational efficiency and cost competitiveness. Key Responsibilities and Duties: - Efficiently identify and acquire high-quality external resources, establish, and maintain a high-productivity supplier base. - Strengthen supplier development according business needs such as SFT, RM, Eval, Multimodal, etc., ensure effective negotiations and signing of feasible commercial terms to maximize outsourcing benefits. - Organize and develop internal project support processes, ensuring efficient response and smooth implementation of various project demands. - Create a regular external resource and industry research mechanism, generating quarterly and annual reports to provide timely market insights and continually bring in the latest industry insights and best practices for the internal Ops team. - Through market research and data analysis, identify and deepen collaborations with key suppliers, fostering closer and more coordinated relationships to achieve optimized total operating costs.

Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher, fast learning ability and passionate about model trainings - Independent analytical and communication skills, able to efficiently coordinate internal and external resources to drive project success. - Excellent in summarizing and organizing processes, capable of making supplier development plans and collaboration strategies. Preferred Qualifications - Experienced in project management, with practical experience in data production Ops is preferred. - Strong market sensitivity and research ability, quickly grasping industry dynamics and proposing targeted improvement solutions. 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