Isaac Bess is the Managing Director of Product Partnerships at TikTok, leading Business Development, Strategy, and Operations across Telecommunications, Infrastructure, Trust & Safety, and Technology to drive adoption, usage, retention, brand lift, and product excellence across TikTok and ByteDance’s portfolio.

Prior to TikTok, Bess spent 15 years in the music business as a journalist, record label executive and digital distributor, in addition to strategic partnerships on YouTube‘s Business Development team.