new york tiktok appears to be deepening its foray into ecommerce with plans to operate its own us warehouses the kind of packing and shipping facilities more associated with amazon or walmart than the social media platform best known for addictive short videos in the past two weeks tiktok has posted several job listings on linkedin looking for candidates to help it develop and grow its fulfillment by tiktok shop in the us to accommodate sellers using the app according to the listings tiktok plans to provide warehousing delivery and item return options to sellers a company spokesperson declined to comment on tiktoks ecommerce plans in the us advt but the us job listings offer a window into a possible us ecommerce expansion in some listings tiktok says it is looking for a candidate who can manage a free return program plan how to move inventory from one warehouse or business to another and develop its fulfillment service in the us in another listing for a position in seattle the company refers to a global ecommerce team and a team member who will be responsible for building a global warehousing network signaling its plans could be much larger the ecommerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading internet companies and its future growth cannot be underestimated the company wrote in the job listings with millions of loyal users globally we believe tiktok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better ecommerce experience to our users axios first reported on the job postings shopping on social media sites known as social commerce is a 37 billion market in the us led by meta which owns facebook and instagram according to insider intelligence bytedance the beijingbased company that owns tiktok already runs a thriving social media marketplace on douyin its twin video app for the chinese market the tiktok spokesperson said the company is focused on providing merchants with a range of product features and delivery options in places it currently has ecommerce programs such as southeast asia and the united kingdom advt insider intelligence projects about 237 million us shoppers are expected to make at least one purchase through tiktok this year by using affiliated links or conducting a transaction on the platform itself some of those sales are already having an effect communities such as booktok a corner of tiktok devoted to literature and reading has been credited with driving a spike in the sales of print romance books this year to accommodate more purchases on its app tiktok said last summer it would partner with the canadian ecommerce company shopify to allow users to buy items directly on the app tiktok has been intensifying competition with meta and other rivals luring younger users as well as popular influencers from youtube facebook and instagram the sites bitesized entertaining clips are served up by an algorithm that often seems to know what people want before they