TikTok owner ByteDance on hiring spree in China amid US troubles; aims to recruit 10,000 by year-end

Beijing-headquartered ByteDance plans to bring in 10,000 more employees based in China by the end of the year

This is expected to boost the start-up’s global headcount to more than 100,000, hitting founder Zhang Yiming’s recently set target

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Published: 12:08pm, 5 Nov 2020Updated: 12:08pm, 5 Nov 2020

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance, facing regulatory challenges in major markets including the US and India, is doubling down on hiring in its home market.

The Beijing-headquartered company plans to bring in 10,000 more employees based in China by the end of the year, adding to nearly 30,000 hires in the market this year so far, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

This is expected to boost its global headcount to more than 100,000, a target that founder Zhang Yiming set in March.

A search by the Post on ByteDance’s official career site turned up more than 100 openings tagged “urgent”, notably for its new businesses such as gaming and e-commerce. The positions vary from programmers and technicians to marketing and sales.

Besides first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the world’s most valuable start-up said it is “continuing to expand the scale of [the team’s] business” in cities including Wuhan, Chengdu and Hangzhou.

The Chinese entertainment giant has seen its flagship global product, short video app TikTok, blocked in India and face a forced sale in the US amid tensions between China and these two countries. The app has also been investigated in other countries such as the UK and Japan over privacy and security concerns.

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