Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) Analyst

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Third Party Risk Management analyst to own vendor compliance screening, vulnerability management, and cross-functional security control assurance across USDS. You will coordinate with Procurement and Legal to implement and communicate requirements to business owners and program managers.

You will work with USDS Risk Management and Global Security to manage assessments for site visits at TikTok USDS data centers and CDNs, while guiding ongoing lifecycle

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in risk management or equivalent privacy, security, compliance, project management, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vendor lifecycle management, contract clauses verification and compliance procedures.
• Technical writing and communication between cross-functional teams and non-USDS lines of business.
• Validate vendor compliance screening assessments.
• Report vendor security risk assessments for authorized and rejected vendors.
• Coordinate with USDS Risk Management, Global Security Organization, and internal teams on unresolved findings and vulnerability management.
• Enhance USDS TPRM standard operating procedures for emerging threats and policy requirements.
• Validate security standard controls and audits within the TPRM program.
• Manage assessment lifecycles and dashboard reporting.
• Coordinate and execute site visit assessments and reporting for TikTok USDS data centers and CDNs.

Skills

Technical writing

Verbal communication

Findings & vulnerability management

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in risk management or equivalent privacy, security, compliance, project management, or like discipline

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team

The USDS Security - Risk & Compliance team is responsible for managing USDS security compliance in accordance with US compliance requirements and objectives, and providing industry leading governance, risk, and compliance services.

The core service offerings include: Compliance & Security Risk Management, Controls & Compliance Framework, Security Compliance Policies, Charters, & Protocols, Vendor Program & Third-Party Risk Management, Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) Platform, and Security & Compliance Behavior & Culture. This role is within the Third Party Risk Management vertical.

About the Role

As a Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) analyst, you will be a subject matter expert and liaison between USDS and the lines of business as it pertains to vendor compliance screening, issues and vulnerability management, and cross-functional security and privacy control assurance. You will be responsible for owning and managing daily operations of assigned vendor compliance assessment coordination, technical writing, and USDS Vendor Lifecycle management. Within this role, you will closely coordinate with USDS Procurement and Legal teams to ensure USDS Vendor Program and Procurement Policies requirements are implemented, enforced and communicated to business owners, program managers and other other applicable internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating between USDS TPRM, Procurement, and Legal operations about vendor lifecycle management, contract clauses verification and compliance assessment procedures
• Technical writing and communication between cross-functional teams and Non-USDS lines of business
• Validating vendor compliance screening assessments
• Reporting vendor security risk assessments for authorized and rejected vendors
• Coordinating between USDS Risk Management, Global Security Organization, and other applicable internal teams on unresolved findings and vulnerability management
• Enhancing USDS TPRM standard operating procedure as it pertains to emerging threats and USDS Vendor Program policy requirements
• Validating security standard controls and audits as applicable to the overall USDS TPRM program and process
• Managing assessment lifecycles and dashboard reporting
• Coordinating and executing assessments for site visit assessments (physical and remote) and reporting related to TikTok USDS data centers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
• - Bachelor’s degree in risk management or equivalent privacy, security, compliance, project management, or like discipline from an accredited college
• - 3+ years of third party risk management or related privacy/security experience
• - Technical writing and verbal communication skills that enable executive reporting on Third Party Risk metrics
• - Findings and vulnerability management experience related to the resolution and/or remediation of web vulnerabilities, bugs, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• - Critical thinking and analytical decision making skills to forecast issues, events and/or risks pertaining to TPRM
• Preferred Qualifications
• - Supply Chain risk management experience related to software and hardware solutions/tooling to include but not limited to Bill of Materials (BOM) analysis
• - Contract clause verification pertaining to security, privacy and business resilience controls
• - Experience implementing vendor lifecycle procedures including Onboarding, Ongoing Monitoring and Offboarding requirements
• - Experience with TPRM incident event management, policy development, enhancement and awareness
• - Experience with OFAC Sanctions and foreign ownership compliance assessments

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 $98800 - $196000 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.

• 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.