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

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 aggressive 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