ByteDance recently held an internal briefing on Doubao shares and raised the price to $17.02 from $14.85 in June, according to the latest internal information cited by Dongcha Beating AI. That marks a 14.6% increase over two months.
The report said some employees can adjust their pay structure and exchange part of the cash portion of their total compensation package for Doubao shares. The amount available for conversion varies by person. Some L2 and L3 employees are reportedly allowed a full allocation ratio of 20%, while some L3 and L4 employees may reach 25% or 30%.
ByteDance has also reportedly increased the distribution of Doubao shares, with some employees receiving an added quota of about 5% of their total compensation package. The policy does not cover all staff. It mainly involves large-model teams under Seed, including pre-training, multimodal and VLM, along with Flow’s main Doubao app. Some teams with deeper links to Seed and the Doubao base model, including Ark, may also receive Doubao shares.
Doubao shares are an internal virtual equity incentive system designed by ByteDance for its AI business. The first buyback price in April was $13.08, rising to $14.85 in June. In May, some Seed employees were already allowed to swap their year-end bonus for Doubao shares.
If cash conversion from total compensation is opened further this time, employees would be able to place a larger share of their income directly on Doubao’s business. From the April price of $13.08, Doubao shares are now up 30.1% in total. In the earlier April-to-June period, Doubao shares rose 13.5%, while ByteDance group options increased by about 2.6%.