Head of AI-Driven Threat Management

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 238,000 - 397,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a visionary Head of Advanced Threat Management Operations to own end-to-end threat defense across cyber and physical domains in a highly technical, AI-powered security program.

You will lead a decentralized, agile team, drive autonomous detection engineering, real-time telemetry enrichment, and automated incident response for internet-scale products within the JV Secure Environment.

Qualifications

• Must have 10+ years in cybersecurity within tech or high-scale internet environments.
• Engineering or highly technical cyber background with deep knowledge of applications, distributed systems, and cloud architecture.
• Proven track record of commanding major security incidents with minimal disruption to global product availability.
• Strong evangelist for autonomous systems, machine learning, and agentic security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Next-Gen Cyber Operations: strategy for monitoring, detection, and response across consumer-facing internet products at the application level.
• AI & Agentic Automation: deploy autonomous AI agents to manage detection engineering and real-time telemetry enrichment and orchestrate response playbooks.
• Modern Data & Logging Intake: define data ingestion and edge-processing for high-volume internet products with real-time telemetry.
• Major Incident Command: coordinate with cross-functional teams on large-scale security incidents.
• AI-Driven Physical Security: oversee physical security monitoring with computer vision and AI anomaly detection.

Skills

10+ years cybersecurity experience

Technical engineering background

Incident mastery

Visionary mindset

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a visionary Head of Advanced Threat Management Operations to own end-to-end threat defense across cyber and physical domains in a highly technical, AI-powered security program.

You will lead a decentralized, agile team, drive autonomous detection engineering, real-time telemetry enrichment, and automated incident response for internet-scale products within the JV Secure Environment.