Talent Acquisition Partner - Security & Privacy, TikTok USDS-JV - San Jose

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a versatile Talent Acquisition Partner to support strategic hiring across Security & Privacy, R&D, and Trust & Safety. You will drive full-cycle recruitment, partner with senior leaders, and leverage market insights to attract top talent in a highly regulated environment.

You will focus on S&P and R&D, with flexibility to support broader T&S and operations as priorities evolve, ensuring an excellent candidate experience and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience including technical areas
• Ability to manage diverse, complex requisitions simultaneously
• Strong analytical skills to diagnose pipeline challenges
• Advanced sourcing techniques and talent mapping skills

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment across S&P, R&D, and T&S searches
• Advise senior leaders and HR partners on talent strategy and market insights
• Source passively using market mapping and research techniques
• Assess candidates rigorously for technical skills and cultural fit
• Drive interview and offer processes with data-driven salary recommendations
• Analyze pipeline metrics and identify improvement opportunities
• Manage TA-related projects in a regulated environment

Skills

Recruitment experience

Requisition management

Data fluency

Strategic sourcing

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team: Join the TikTok USDS (U.S. Data Security) Talent Acquisition team as a versatile Talent Acquisition Partner supporting strategic hiring across our most critical technical and operational organizations. In this role, you will partner closely with leaders across Security & Privacy (S&P), Research & Development (R&D), and Trust & Safety (T&S) to drive full-cycle recruitment in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

You will lead both technical and non-technical searches while leveraging market insights, talent intelligence, and data-driven strategies to influence hiring decisions and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. While your primary focus will be S&P and R&D, our team operates with agility; the ideal candidate is highly adaptable, intellectually curious, and comfortable context-switching to support broader T&S or operational business areas as priorities evolve.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Recruitment: Lead full-cycle recruitment across multiple business lines, primarily driving Security & Privacy, R&D, and Trust & Safety searches. Remain flexible and adaptable to seamlessly pivot between highly technical profiles (e.g., Security Engineering, Data Science) and non-technical/operational searches.
• Stakeholder Consultation: Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders and HR partners. Assess talent requirements, provide market insights, influence hiring decisions, and advise on optimal hiring strategies.
• Strategic Sourcing: Utilize innovative techniques, talent research, and market mapping to discover, identify, and attract top passive talent in highly competitive, niche tech and security markets.
• Candidate Assessment & Experience: Screen and select candidates effectively by rigorously assessing their technical skills, business acumen, and alignment with TikTok's fast-paced culture. Ensure a seamless, high-quality candidate experience from application to onboarding.
• Complex Offer Negotiation: Drive the interview and offer stages, utilizing internal parity data and market intelligence to make salary recommendations and successfully close complex offer negotiations.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Partner with hiring teams to analyze pipeline metrics (e.g., funnel conversion, channel distribution), identify process bottlenecks, and implement proactive recruitment solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Navigate the highly regulated nuances of the USDS environment and manage broader TA-related projects—such as pipeline optimization, interviewer training, or referral programs—to drive continuous improvement across the organization.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Recruitment Experience: 3+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience, including at least 2+ years of dedicated experience supporting Technical, Security & Privacy, R&D, or Trust & Safety organizations.
• Requisition Management: Proven ability to manage diverse, complex technical and non-technical requisitions simultaneously, including exposure to leadership-level hiring.
• Data Fluency: Strong analytical skills and data fluency to diagnose pipeline challenges and present clear, actionable solutions to leadership.
• Strategic Sourcing: Advanced sourcing expertise (e.g., Boolean, X-Ray, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM tools) with a proven ability to conduct complex talent mapping and engage highly passive technical talent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership Recruitment: Proven experience managing leadership and specialized technical searches, with a strong track record of independently closing senior-level candidates.
• Matrix Environment Experience: Experience operating within a large, highly matrixed organization, demonstrating the ability to navigate complexity, build trust, and align multiple senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Adaptability: High intellectual curiosity with the agility to quickly context-switch between complex engineering profiles and operational/business functions as priorities evolve.
• Builder Mindset: An entrepreneurial, problem-solving approach with the ability to thrive, execute, and create structure in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

About USDS

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision‑making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.

On‑site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real‑time decision‑making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in‑person schedule up to 5 days a week.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

USDS Reasonable Accommodation

USDS 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://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $102600 - $174400 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;
3. Exercising sound judgment.