Lead Product Manager, Privacy and Responsibility

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The Global Product & RD team is building up core TikTok products to ensure TikTok continues a healthy growth, deliver the best product experience to all of our users, build the most attractive features to help users enjoy their time on TikTok, earn trust in privacy protection, and more.
The Global Product team is growing exponentially. The business lines are ranging from Monetization Technology, Data, Machine Learning, System, Infrastructure, AR Effects, Security Technology and more.

About the team
The TikTok Privacy Product team's goal is to meet all of our privacy and compliance requirements while providing the best user experience to consume, create, and enjoy content on TikTok. As part of the team, the product manager will focus on building new product solutions to comply with global regulations related to user empowerment and responsibility.

This high-speed role demands extensive complex problem-solving across global markets, coupled with a tireless entrepreneurial spirit. You'll be shaping the landscape of the product strategy for building a secure platform and leading the product strategy to ensure a secured and empowered user experience. The position requires a deep understanding of regulatory compliance, sharp analytical skills, effective interpersonal abilities, and a creative mindset. It entails navigating through complex challenges characterized by ambiguous requirements.

Within the US product team, your focus will be on deeply understanding our users, identifying areas for improvement, prioritizing critical issues, and swiftly devising innovative user-centric solutions. We are looking for experienced product managers who continuously push the privacy bar while further enhancing new and existing user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in shaping product strategies to meet the evolving global legal and regulatory requirements of the tech industry.
• Partner with the legal department to define and prioritize product requirements based on new laws and regulations as well as emerging regulatory trends.
• Collaborate closely with product and cross-functional teams to ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of product compliance projects.
• Develop and implement scalable privacy product solutions that support various teams within the organization and enhance overall operational efficiency.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, excellence, innovation, and continuous development by ensuring alignment on shared organizational goals and promoting best practices across teams.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Familiarity with data privacy and social media laws, with experience working with legal departments to drive compliance and regulatory projects.
• Strong strategic planning skills with a product-solution-oriented mindset, able to adapt quickly to changes and navigate through ambiguity.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to evaluate assumptions, make recommendations and decisions, and drive execution.
• Demonstrated deep understanding of project management with a hands-on, down-to-earth spirit.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to create a vision and rally an organization around it.
• Ability to thrive in a cross-functional environment while balancing multiple responsibilities, scoping projects, evaluating priorities, and effectively working well within a team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management in consumer-facing tech companies

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

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210000 - $372600 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.