San Jose Global Operations Project Intern

Social Media Operations & User Campaigns Operations Project Intern (TikTok-Search) - 2026 Start (BS/MS) Location: San Jose Employment Type: Intern Job Code: A159581 Responsibilities Support content planning, brainstorming, and editorial calendar management for TikTok Tako’s official social channels. Track US TikTok trends, AI product conversations, Gen Z culture, memes, and creator economy moments. Write short‑form video scripts, hooks, captions, post copy, and comment/reply ideas. Help create, edit, or coordinate video content for the official account. Analyze content performance, including views, retention, engagement, follower growth, and audience feedback. Research relevant brand accounts, AI product accounts, creator accounts, and social content formats. Help shape a voice for Tako that feels useful, playful, natural, and trustworthy. Minimum Qualifications Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in any discipline. Currently based in the United States, with a strong understanding of US internet and TikTok culture, and a keen sense of trends, memes, creator culture, and Gen Z communication styles. Passionate about AI products, consumer technology, social media, and digital culture; experienced in creating or managing content on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or similar platforms. Familiar with AI content‑creation tools, including AI image generation, AI video generation, and AI‑assisted copywriting/scriptwriting tools, and able to apply them to social content production. Proficient in English and Mandarin, with strong English writing skills especially for short‑form, native‑feeling social copy, and fluent in Mandarin for managing stakeholders in the China market. Comfortable using performance data to review, learn, and improve content. Proactive, reliable, detail‑oriented, and comfortable working in a remote team environment. Preferred Qualifications Experience growing a personal TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube account. Previous internship or project experience in social media, campus media, creator agencies, startups, or tech companies. Basic video editing skills with tools such as CapCut, Premiere, Final Cut, Canva, or similar. Hands‑on experience using tools such as Midjourney, Runway, Pika, Kling, Sora, CapCut AI, Canva AI, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar AI creative tools. Job Information The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $25- $25. Benefits Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance. Equal Opportunity Employer 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: Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems. Exercising sound judgment. Accommodation TikTok 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr TikTok