Privacy Program Manager (PPM) - TikTok Product, PDPO, San Jose

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable way and eventually become overall industry leading. This team is the expert in the landscape of privacy risks and passionate about consulting across the company on implementing the proper safeguards and technical mitigations to ensure that our users' privacy is honored across the TikTok's products and platforms.

As PPM to TikTok product team, the ideal candidate possesses the ability to document and organize process requirements, roadmaps, deliverables, task owners and timelines in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate is deeply passionate about cross-functional project management, high level thinking and on the ground execution. This role requires the ability to work across different time zones and using analytical rigor to identify and prioritize organizational pain points. The successful candidate is intellectually curious, creative, self-resilient and comfortable operating in ambiguity with strategic thinking.

Key responsibilities
1. Manage complex projects with tight timelines and work with internal stakeholders to establish roadmaps and communicate timelines and deliverables to internal stakeholders as needed;
2. Manage product feature launch review process in close collaboration with product managers and legal team.
3. Partner with global counterparts across product, engineers, legal and others to identify and mitigate key risks in privacy by design process.
4. Enhance TikTok privacy maturity by strengthening privacy by design and compliance review process
5. Develop a strong understanding of business and technical requirements and obligations for compliance and data protection

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
1. 5+ years of project management experience. Those with prior experience managing large scale global projects are preferred;
3. Experience with compliance, privacy, risk management is highly recommended.
4. Detail oriented, can navigate across multiple teams/countries/cultures;

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Capable to drive large scale compliance and privacy projects by breaking down milestones and defining action plans for various teams.
2. Solid understanding of product development process is a plus, with extensive experience of working with engineers and product teams.

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