# Louis Lee

> Louis Lee is Pika's founding recruiter, a San Francisco Bay Area talent operator whose public career traces a path through JBC at Meta, Google, and TikTok/ByteDance's DataAILab recruiting team. His own account of immigrating to the United States with his mother and sister, doing cleaning work, and watching his family build a business gives his recruiting career a personal logic: he treats access to work as something that can alter a life.

- **Role:** Founding Recruiter at Pika
- **Organizations:** Pika, TikTok, ByteDance, Google, JBC, Meta
- **Education:** University of California, Santa Barbara
- **Known for:** Built a recruiting career across JBC's Meta partnership, Google, TikTok/ByteDance, and Pika., Recruited for TikTok and ByteDance's DataAILab team and explored using AI to automate manual recruiting work., Earned public recommendations describing him as effective in high-volume work, respectful to teammates, attentive to candidates, and generous with career mentorship.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2022** — Worked through JBC in partnership with Meta, supporting recruiting and recruiting-coordinator talent.
- **2022** — Announced a move from JBC at Meta to Google.
- **By 2025** — Worked in talent acquisition at TikTok and ByteDance, including the DataAILab recruiting team.
- **2026** — Left TikTok/ByteDance at the end of February and joined Pika as founding recruiter.

## Achievements

- Built a recruiting career across JBC's Meta partnership, Google, TikTok/ByteDance, and Pika.
- Recruited for TikTok and ByteDance's DataAILab team and explored using AI to automate manual recruiting work.
- Earned public recommendations describing him as effective in high-volume work, respectful to teammates, attentive to candidates, and generous with career mentorship.
- Joined Pika as a founding recruiter as the AI creative company expanded its global team.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — His public profile lists him as Pika's founding recruiter after his departure from TikTok/ByteDance earlier in the year.
- **2026-02** — Announced the end of his time at TikTok and ByteDance, highlighting AI-assisted recruiting workflows and the colleagues who shaped the chapter.

## Links

- Website: https://pika.art
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisleeta

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Last updated: 2026-09-28