Strategic HR Partner: Org Design & Transformation

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an enterprise-caliber HR Business Partner to advise executive leaders and drive organizational design, long-term workforce planning, and macro business architecture in a highly secure environment.

You will partner with Corporate and Technical Security teams, lead diagnostics and realignment roadmaps, and coach leaders through rapid change while aligning talent strategy with national security and data sovereignty goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a strategic HR Business Partner with direct experience in Organizational Design involving technical/corporate organizational assessments, structural redesign, and scalable operating model implementation.
• Proven Transformation Track Record: Demonstrated success managing complex organizational changes tied to business restructuring, technical infrastructure growth, reengineering, or macro corporate transformation.

Responsibilities

• Executive Advisory: Serve as a strategic HR partner to both corporate executive and technical security leaders, translating complex business and engineering priorities into data-driven, highly secure people strategies.
• Macro Organizational Diagnostics: Independently conduct comprehensive organizational diagnostics to identify structural pain points, capability gaps, processing bottlenecks, or infrastructure inefficiencies across both corporate and technical client lines.
• Root-Cause Architecture: Identify underlying organizational friction points, execute systematic root‑cause analyses, and implement scalable structural solutions to ensure high talent density, operational efficiency, and system performance.
• Structural Design & Evaluation: Design and evaluate intricate engineering, security, and corporate organizational structures, optimizing business work rhythms, spans of control, technical layering, role clarity, and matrixed decision‑making models.
• Transformation & Realignment Roadmaps: Develop sophisticated business cases for change and author comprehensive implementation roadmaps to guide corporate business realignments, product pivots, or data isolation initiatives.
• Workforce Segmentation: Lead advanced workforce segmentation and headcount modeling to support long‑term capacity planning, business agility, and agile engineering sprints.
• Leadership Coaching: Coach executive corporate and technical leaders on navigating rapid change, driving strict operational and performance accountability, and developing high‑performing, matrixed teams.
• COE Collaboration: Partner cross‑functionally with HR Centers of Excellence (TA, Compensation, D&I, L&D) to build and deploy specialized talent acquisition, people programs, and total rewards structures tailored to elite technical and corporate talent.
• Compliance, Risk & Security Oversight: Navigate highly sensitive employee relations cases and evolving, strict data‑security and regulatory compliance frameworks in lockstep with specialized Legal and ER functions.

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an enterprise-caliber HR Business Partner to advise executive leaders and drive organizational design, long-term workforce planning, and macro business architecture in a highly secure environment.

You will partner with Corporate and Technical Security teams, lead diagnostics and realignment roadmaps, and coach leaders through rapid change while aligning talent strategy with national security and data sovereignty goals.