Yang Chen

Yang Chen is an experienced engineering leader currently at TikTok, focusing on growth, music content ecosystem, and innovative products since July 2022. Prior to TikTok, Yang held various leadership roles at Airbnb from July 2017 to June 2022, where responsibilities included payments and incentives, core product management, growth, and globalization. Yang's earlier experience includes a position as Tech Lead at Uber, concentrating on growth, payments, and incentives from September 2015 to July 2017, and as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn, working on feed, social, and sales solutions from September 2013 to May 2015. Yang holds a Master's degree in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and completed Executive Education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.