Business Development Lead

Description:

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

About the team:
Global Gaming Content is the vertical that aligns the Strategy, Business Development, Partner Management, and Program Management functions to articulate and execute TikTok's Global Gaming strategy in close partnership with regional and local teams in all markets. The Business Development Lead will oversee this function, synthesizing the overarching Gaming vertical strategy into actionable partnerships that secure differentiated access to content, IP, product integrations, and commercial outcomes. The role will not only require management of the BD team but also engagement and alignment of the team within the Global Gaming vertical and with local and regional TikTok teams in a number of markets to ensure optimal outcomes globally, while ensuring differentiated local market execution. At its core, the role focuses on managing the function that sources, negotiates, and closes identified partnerships predicated on budgets identified and aligned with the Global Head of Gaming Content.

• Identify potential partners based on a global strategy that prioritizes Gaming Content outcomes, internal product goals, user needs, and commercial outcomes. Build out these engagements from initiation through execution and ensure smooth transitions to global and local operating with teams.
• Oversee and lead partnership implementation and evaluation while collaborating with Content Programming, Operations, Marketing, Growth, Product, Sales, and other cross-functional teams
• Support all strategic initiatives with the relevant research and market and partner intelligence to aid in strategic decision making