TikTok AML Officer

our Financial Crime Compliance team. In this role, you will help safeguard the platform against money laundering and terrorist financing risks. You will bridge the gap between regulatory requirements and the dynamic nature of a user-first tech platform. The TikTok AML Officer will provide global leadership, governance, and independent oversight of TikTok's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) program. This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining a globally consistent, regulatory sound AML/CFT framework, while ensuring effective jurisdiction-specific execution and accountability through regional financial crime compliance teams in the UK/EU, Singapore, and other jurisdictions.

The TikTok AML Officer will serve as the second-line owner of TikTok's global AML/CFT framework, with authority to set minimum standards, challenge regional implementation, and escalate material risks to executive management. The role requires deep experience in payments and platform-enabled financial services, strong regulatory judgment, and a proven ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional AML programs in a fast-moving technological environment. This role reports to the Head of Global Payment Compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Global AML/CFT Governance & Oversight
• Own and maintain TikTok's global AML/CFT framework, including group-wide policies, standards, risk taxonomy, and minimum control requirements across all regulated and in-scope entities.
• Provide independent oversight and challenge of regional and jurisdiction-specific AML/CFT programs, while respecting regulatory accountability.
• Establish global governance, escalation mechanisms, and reporting to ensure timely identification and management of material AML/CFT risks.
• Escalate AML/CFT issues directly to executive management and relevant governance committees as required.

Executive Management & Regulatory Engagement

• Act as the principal AML/CFT advisor to executive management on global financial-crime risk, regulatory posture, and program effectiveness.
• Lead and coordinate global AML/CFT regulatory engagement strategy, including interactions with lead regulators and oversight of cross-jurisdictional reviews and examinations.
• Monitor global regulatory developments (e.g., FATF, regional AML regimes) and ensure timely incorporation into the global framework.

Risk, Controls & Program Design

• Oversee group-wide AML/CFT risk assessments, ensuring consistency in methodology, risk appetite, and aggregation of regional risk profiles.
• Ensure AML/CFT controls are appropriately designed for payments, digital wallets, cross-border flows, platform-enabled transactions, and emerging products.
• Drive alignment of AML/CFT controls with business growth, product innovation, and geographic expansion.

Technology, Operations & Capability

• Provide strategic oversight of AML technology, data, and operating models, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and case management.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global AML/CFT organization, setting expectations for culture, accountability, training, and professional development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum 5 years of AML/CFT and financial-crime compliance experience, with experience in payments, fintech, digital platforms, or regulated financial services.
• Experience operating at group or enterprise level, overseeing AML/CFT programs across multiple jurisdictions.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting designated MLROs and lead-level AML leaders while maintaining effective second-line independence.
• Strong understanding of global AML/CFT regulatory frameworks, including US, UK, EU, Singapore, and FATF standards.
• Track record of regulatory engagement and issue management with multiple supervisors.
• Experience overseeing AML technology, data, and complex operating models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in legal experience is strongly preferred, specifically admission to the bar in the United States.
• Exceptional judgment, leadership presence, and ability to influence executive stakeholders and Boards.
• CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or equivalent certifications.
• Juris Doctorate or Master's in Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or related field highly preferred.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $166400 - $392000 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.