Senior Technical Program Manager, Security & Privacy

About the role

The Security & Privacy Programs team helps TikTok USDS Joint Venture turn cross-functional security and privacy requirements into coordinated execution. We work with incident management, security architects, and engineering and functional teams across departments to resolve complex issues that span systems, products, and organizational boundaries. Our remediation work addresses the gap between containing an incident and implementing the lasting engineering changes needed to prevent it from recurring. We bring technical program leadership to that work: aligning teams on the problem, shaping actionable remediation plans, resolving dependencies, and ensuring that implemented solutions are tested and supported by clear evidence.

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.

Responsibilities

• Engage deeply in engineering problems: Work directly with engineers to understand system architectures, API contracts, data flows, service dependencies, and operational constraints. Review technical proposals, question assumptions, and assess implementation complexity, integration effort, and failure modes. Use that understanding to help teams solve problems rather than simply track delivery dates.
• Translate ambiguity into executable technical programs: Turn complex requirements and remediation needs into clearly scoped engineering workstreams with agreed interfaces, ownership boundaries, acceptance criteria, and resource plans. Partner with technical leads to sequence design, development, integration, testing, and rollout, making uncertainty and the work needed to resolve it explicit.
• Align stakeholders through technical credibility: Build shared goals across engineering, architecture, business, and security partners within the