Governance, Risk, & Compliance Services Lead - USDS

Responsibilities

TikTok is seeking a Governance, Risk, & Compliance ("GRC") Services Lead to be part of the US Security & Privacy Risk and Compliance team. This role will have a significant impact on mitigating regulatory compliance risk, and maturing GRC operations. The primary focus of this role will be to strategically mature three Risk & Compliance services: 1) Controls & Certifications 2) Policy Management 3) Third-Party Risk Management. The GRC Services Lead must have a "business first" mindset, working to achieve levels of maturity and efficiency, without sacrificing compliance.

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 include but are not limited to:
- Partner with Controls & Certifications, Policy Management, and Third-Party Risk Management ("TPRM") team leads to oversee day-to-day operations
- Quickly understand current ways of working to identify maturity and efficiency gaps for each service
- Develop strategic plans and underlying OKRs to achieve these initiatives
- Challenge status-quo of manual operations and work to implement technology driven solutions to achieve greater coverage (i.e., control testing) and lower manual efforts (i.e., policy development, TPRM assessments)
- Partner across the Security & Privacy organization and business teams to proactively align GRC operations to changing business priorities and objectives; work closely with business teams to develop ongoing compliance testing strategies
- Develop metrics and reporting to communicate business initiatives and risks to the broader security and compliance organization
- Collaborate with compliance assurance and compliance reporting functions to support regulatory reporting initiatives

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience managing multiple teams and services, to align to consistent objectives, and ability to develop talent
- Experience performing internal/external control testing as security control assessor or supporting security compliance as internal compliance resources of physical and cloud infrastructure
- Experience in gathering technical control evidence from stakeholders, coordinating review, and analyzing artifacts received to ensure they meet the intent of the control requirements and demonstrate compliance
- Expert knowledge of IT and security control frameworks (e.g., NIST-CSF, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, CIS Security Controls, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, etc.)
- Excellent organizational direction, time management, problem-solving, prioritization, goal setting, leadership, motivation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills while proactively seeking input
- Ability to collaborate with operations and engineering teams, easily partner and forge relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff, provide compliant solutions, and communicate appropriately to a wide-range of audiences, with a collaborative mindset
- Familiar with the usage of modern GRC tooling (i.e., Archer, ServiceNow)

Preferred Qualifications:
- Start-up high-tech experience
- One of the following certifications, or equivalent certifications: CISA, CDPSE, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, etc.
- Experience with risk and controls frameworks including (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST RMF, FAIR, COBIT, NIST RMF, ISO 31000 etc.)

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $199800 - $374400 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.