At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry leading way. You will join a global team driving privacy best practices across TikTok. Our focus involves ensuring compliance with global laws, regulations and the adoption of privacy best practices. In this role, you will drive multiple programs, in collaboration with colleagues around the world. You will partner with legal and technical teams to drive change across the organization.

We are seeking a Privacy Program Manager to join our PDPO team, with a focus on Privacy Controls and Privacy Certifications. You will play a critical role in upholding the privacy rights of our users, ensuring the protection of their personal information, ensuring compliance with global privacy laws, and promoting the adoption of best practices. If you are passionate about privacy, data protection, and possess the expertise to assess and enhance our privacy practices, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our mission of maintaining the highest standard of data privacy and security.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Privacy control framework: Support maintaining and strengthening the privacy control framework based on applicable regulations and industry standards.
2. Testing: Develop and improve testing procedures, including automation, to measure control effectiveness.
3. Support privacy certifications: Assist in managing TikTok's efforts in achieving industry standard privacy certifications, such as ISO 27701.
4. Project Management: Manage privacy projects, collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders, while developing and driving project plans to execution.
5. Documentation: Develop necessary documentation to support the program, such as processes, policies, frameworks, and management reports.
6. Education & Training: Develop internal training materials related to privacy controls and privacy certifications and deliver training
7. Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest privacy trends and best practices, contributing to Bytedance's continual improvement in privacy approach.
8. Partnering with cross-functional teams to further enhance privacy controls across the organization.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Law, Business, or a related field
- Familiarity with privacy laws and regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and experience with ISO 27701 certification process or similar privacy certifications
- 3+ years of governance risk and compliance (GRC) or related privacy, compliance, and security experience
- Experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining privacy controls and procedures and knowledge of controls frameworks and industry standard frameworks (ISO, NIST, etc.)
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with the ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into actionable privacy controls
- Familiarity with core privacy concepts such as data minimization, purpose limitation, data sovereignty, transparency, and data retention. Experience with privacy by design principles and engineering in a privacy program.
- Detail-oriented, analytical mindset, with the ability to think critically and solve complex privacy challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant certifications in privacy and data protection, or project management (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, OSCP, PMP) are a plus.
- A highly motivated individual, with strong communication and relationship-building skills, and demonstrate a record of ongoing accomplishment and commitment to excellence
- Accustomed to working in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. Adaptable to changing or emerging priorities
- Experience working hands-on with cross-functional teams including legal, procurement, information security, business continuity, privacy, and IT engineering
- Proven experience in program/project management and driving strategic initiatives

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $147000 - $269800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.