Tech Lead Manager - Fullstack, TikTok Privacy

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

The TikTok Privacy & Security Product team plays a vital role in crafting regulatory-compliant and user-centric privacy solutions for TikTok. Our mission is to instill confidence in TikTok users, regulatory bodies, and the wider community. Our team focuses on developing a range of privacy-related products, encompassing transparency, education, user and underage protection, data access controls, data retention policies, and more.

We are in search of a Technical Lead Manager to spearhead our engineering team dedicated to TikTok's privacy transparency and education initiatives. In this role, you will oversee a group of skilled engineers specializing in full-stack, front-end, and back-end development. Your primary responsibility will involve fostering seamless teamwork within the group and across cross-functional teams (XFN) that include Product Managers, User Researchers, Data Scientists, and QAs. Your leadership will be instrumental in establishing user trust through educational efforts in private practices and improving transparency among other objectives.

Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and collaborate with PM teams to gain user trust by providing privacy transparency and privacy education features.
- Work with PM and other partner teams to shape the roadmap of privacy transparency and education direction.
- Manage resources and budgets to optimize team performance and achieve business objectives.
- Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality features and improvements
- Continuously improve the quality, efficiency, and security of the system
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams.
- Foster a team environment that facilitates learning, development, and achievement for all members.Minimum Qualifications:
- Has hands on software development background and understands complex backend systems
- Strong experience in architecting and implementing modern, large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
- Had solid user-facing product experience in building, designing, and scaling software architecture
- 2 years of experience in managing or technically leading a software engineering team.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
- Experience of driving collaboration across cross functional teams on delivering shared goals.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science with 5 years of industry experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or implementing privacy features and solutions.
- Strong product sense, with experience driving user-facing products/features from 0 to 1.
- Experience with user-facing privacy or compliance products

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.

TikTok 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2