ByteDance’s HR Chief Takes Over a Shrunken Gaming Division

ByteDance Ltd.’s human resources chief has taken the helm of the company’s sharply reduced gaming division and will refocus the business on more personal content, avoiding a head-on clash with Tencent Holdings Ltd.

The moves marks a pivot in a unit that once harbored ambitions of taking on Tencent and NetEase Inc. in the world’s biggest mobile gaming market, but has since been forced to unwind many of its properties.

Hua Wei, one of the social media firm’s longest-serving executives, will now oversee user-generated content platforms and surviving studio Shanghai Moonton Technology Co., according to an internal memo ...