HR Business Partner - TikTok Product & Design

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage (

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term & long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support a dedicated global department spanning engineering, privacy, security, and trust & safety.

You will partner with leadership to shape organizational design, performance management, and talent development across multiple time zones. You will coach leaders, resolve complex employee relations issues, and build data-driven programs using Tableau, Excel, and Power BI to measure workforce health and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Human Resources with 2+ years as HR Business Partner.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Experience in global, matrixed, multicultural organizations.
• Proven ability to lead talent management, organizational design, and performance management in high-growth environments.
• Expertise using data analysis tools (Tableau, Excel, Power BI) to drive insights and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to develop and execute a comprehensive HR strategy across engineering, security, and privacy operations roadmaps.
• Act as the primary HRBP for a global department across multiple time zones.
• Provide strategic coaching on organizational design and global team structuring.
• Advise on talent assessment, career pathing, and succession planning for specialized roles in Engineering, Privacy, Security, and Trust & Safety.
• Lead resolution of complex employee relations issues globally while preserving innovation and psychological safety.
• Oversee full-cycle performance management with tailored goal-setting and calibration.
• Utilize people data and analytics to provide actionable insights on team health and retention bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with HR peers and CoEs to design compensation, engagement, and talent acquisition solutions.

Skills

HRBP

Global collaboration

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Tableau

Excel

Power BI

Job description

About the Team

The TikTok Product & Design team is crucial to its international video business. The Product Team drives business growth, builds and maintains leading products, covering user growth, various product categories, and business analysis, while also focusing on service architecture and basic tech to ensure quality user services. The Global Design Team offers a first-rate user experience for hundreds of millions globally, enabling better creation, expression, and discovery of the world's diversity, breaking barriers, and connecting people. Comprising designers and managers from across the globe, they collaborate to turn the impossible into reality, working in unison to achieve TikTok's success.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to develop and execute a comprehensive HR strategy that directly supports engineering, security, and privacy operations roadmaps.
• Act as the primary HRBP for a dedicated global department, managing end-to-end generalist and business partner duties across multiple time zones and cross-functional teams.
• Provide strategic coaching to leaders on organizational design, effectively structuring global teams to rapidly adapt to external regulatory pressures and internal security initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor on talent assessment, career pathing, and succession planning for highly specialized roles within Engineering, Privacy, Security, and Trust & Safety functions.
• Lead the proactive resolution of complex employee relations issues globally, mitigating risk while preserving a culture that champions innovation and psychological safety.
• Oversee the full-cycle performance management process, tailoring goal-setting and calibration sessions to evaluate highly technical and operational outcomes.
• Leverage people data and analytics to provide actionable insights on team health, retention bottlenecks, and organizational scale within a rapidly evolving environment.
• Collaborate seamlessly with global HR peers and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to design customized compensation, engagement, and talent acquisition solutions.
• Collaborate seamlessly with HR peers and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to design customized compensation, engagement, and talent acquisition solutions that attract top-tier product and design talent.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Human Resources, with 2+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships with business leaders.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed, and multicultural organization, with the agility to adapt HR strategies to evolving business needs.
• Proven ability to lead and execute talent management, organizational design, and performance management strategies in complex, high-growth environments.
• Expertise in leveraging data analysis tools (e.g., Tableau, Excel, Power BI) to extract insights, inform strategic decision-making, and measure the impact of HR programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting organizations in a global high-growth technology environment with regulatory compliance and security-related requirements.

Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $108000 - $208800 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.

• day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• paid parental leave
• short-term and long-term disability coverage
• life insurance
• wellbeing benefits
• among others

• 10 paid holidays per year
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 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.