TikTok

Senior Technical Program Manager

TikTok$212K — $387K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher.
  • Proven experience leading large-scale technical programs.
  • Strong technical acumen with solid software engineering fundamentals.
  • Excellent organizational, analytical, and time management skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills for collaboration across teams.
  • Experience in Privacy Products and governance compliance preferred.
  • Background in managing software programs related to privacy or risk control.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional technical programs from planning to launch ensuring quality execution.
  • Partner with various stakeholders to deliver compliant solutions at scale.
  • Identify and mitigate program risks and manage dependencies effectively.
  • Own and communicate project status, milestones, and key decisions clearly.
  • Define key metrics to measure project health and success.
  • Monitor engineering efficiency and derive actionable insights for improvements.
  • Translate business needs into prioritized action items while maintaining execution focus.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days per year.
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with tenure-related accruals.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

We're looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead cross-functional technical programs across multiple domains at a global scale, including Data Lifecycle Governance, Privacy Products, and Business Risk Control. In this role, you will closely partner with Product, Engineering, Operations and broader stakeholders to build and implement scalable, auditable and globally compliant solutions to better protect TikTok users' data privacy, uphold compliance, safeguard TikTok community integrity, while driving continuous engineering efficiency improvements. Responsibilities: - Lead cross-functional technical program management from planning through launch, ensuring high-quality execution across global teams. - Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, Privacy & Security SMEs, and other global stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable and compliant solutions. - Identify and mitigate risks, manage cross-functional dependencies, and remove execution blockers throughout the program/project lifecycle. - Own program/project communications, providing timely & clear visibility into project status, milestones, risks and mitigation plan, and key decisions. - Define and leverage program/project metrics to measure execution health, identify value-add opportunities, and drive ROI & success measurement. - Monitor product and engineering efficiency through key metrics tracking, and derive actionable insights to drive continuous improvements. - Translate evolving business needs and complex scope into clearly defined priorities while maintaining a focus on critical path execution.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s) - Bachelor's degree or above. - Proven track record leading technical programs at scale, or equivalent experience in related fields. - Strong Technical/Engineering acumen with solid software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC). - Excellent organizational, analytical, and time management skills, with strong attention to detail. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional and cross-timezone global teams. Preferred Qualification(s): - Experience in Privacy Products, User Lifecycle Data Management/Governance, and digital content/platform compliance; - Experience driving initiatives related to system stability, engineering quality/efficiency, or solution architecture. - Experience managing software development programs in privacy or risk control-related domains, with understanding of user-facing product features and industry regulations.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212800 - $387600 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; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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Size
1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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