ByteDance, the owner of viral video app TikTok, has embarked on a hiring spree in Singapore, as the Chinese group deepens its operations outside the mainland to satisfy global regulators.
The Beijing-based company controlled by billionaire Zhang Yiming is hiring hundreds of engineers and senior management positions in the Asian city-state for TikTok, as well as its enterprise software business Lark and other products.
GlobalData’s job analytics database showed that ByteDance had posted 338 jobs in Singapore in the past six months. By comparison only five jobs were posted in India, where TikTok was suddenly shut down in June last year on security grounds.