Technical Program Manager - Optical Transport Network (OTN)

Responsibilities
• As a TPM, you'll be the bridge between various internal and external teams, including supply chain, logistics, other NE teams and OTN vendors.
You will drive the end-to-end delivery of projects, managing delivery dates and customer expectations.
• 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.
• Program/Project Management Responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Allocating resources efficiently
- Communicating with stakeholders
- Collaborating with Engineering, Service Owners, and other XFN Teams
- Creating Project Schedules, resourcing plans and defining Milestones. Prepare the project schedule, define the milestones;
- Track tasks and report progress, creating and utilizing dashboards, identifying and mitigating risks.Track and report progress, identify and mitigate risks, removing blockers;
- Lead Agile/Scrum teams as a coach or scrum master

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s)
- BA/BS degree or above with 3+ years of network project delivery or technical leadership background, plus strong organizational and interpersonal skills, will enable you to succeed in ByteDance's fast paced environment.
- Understanding of physical datacenters, including cabling, racks, rPDUs, 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.
- Experience working in multi-time zones, multi-culture is preferred
- 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.

Preferred Qualification(s)
- Strong understanding of Colocations, Datacenters and Carrier Hotels
- Strong understanding of Cross-Connects, Peering Circuits, and Structured Cabling
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively across teams
- Direct experience with one of the major hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, etc)
- Dashboards and Monitoring tools experience
- Direct Experience working with Colocation Vendors
- Ability to read Engineering schematics and Network Diagrams

Client-provided location(s): Sydney, Australia

Job ID: TikTok-7704204891975633205

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-11-06T21:57:53