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HR Business Partner - TikTok RD - San Jose - TikTok RD

At TikTok - San Jose

Posted on Oct 26

HR Business Partner - TikTok RD - San Jose - TikTok RD

San Jose$76,000 – $151,200Posted 15 days ago

Responsibilities

The HRBP TikTok Research and Development (R&D) team partners with leaders across the engineering and technical organizations that support TikTok's continued product growth and user experience. We translate technology priorities into people and organizational strategies, shaping workforce plans, organizational design, talent development, performance, and employee engagement.

We support a global R&D organization spanning different technical disciplines, regions, and stages of development. This requires us to understand evolving capability needs, build trusted partnerships with specialized technical stakeholders, and connect teams working across locations and cultures. By combining organizational insight, sound judgment, and workforce data, we help technical teams scale and adapt as products, technologies, and priorities evolve.

You will build trusted partnerships with leaders and collaborate across HR functions to guide important organization and talent decisions. Your work may span organizational design, workforce and succession planning, leadership development, performance, culture, and engagement. You will stay close to the organization as strategies are implemented, seeing how people decisions shape the teams developing TikTok's core technology and using those insights to strengthen what comes next.

Responsibilities:
- Partner with leadership to develop and execute a comprehensive HR strategy that directly supports engineering, security, and privacy operations roadmaps.
- Act as the primary HRBP for a dedicated global department, managing end-to-end generalist and business partner duties across multiple time zones and cross-functional teams.
- Provide strategic coaching to leaders on organizational design, effectively structuring global teams to rapidly adapt to external regulatory pressures and internal security initiatives.
- Act as a trusted advisor on talent assessment, career pathing, and succession planning for highly specialized roles within Engineering, Privacy, Security, and Trust & Safety functions.
- Lead the proactive resolution of complex employee relations issues globally, mitigating risk while preserving a culture that champions innovation and psychological safety.
- Oversee the full-cycle performance management process, tailoring goal-setting and calibration sessions to evaluate highly technical and operational outcomes.
- Leverage people data and analytics to provide actionable insights on team health, retention bottlenecks, and organizational scale within a rapidly evolving environment.
- Collaborate seamlessly with global HR peers and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to design customized compensation, engagement, and talent acquisition solutions.
- Collaborate seamlessly with HR peers and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to design customized compensation, engagement, and talent acquisition solutions that attract top-tier product and design talent.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience in Human Resources, or HR Business Partner.
- Bilingual proficiency in both English and Mandarin to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams based in Mainland China and the broader APAC region.
- Experience partnering directly with Engineering, Security, Privacy, or Trust & Safety organizations, with a strong understanding of the unique technical talent landscape.
- Proven ability to lead and execute talent management, organizational design, and performance management strategies in complex, high-growth environments.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to partner effectively with technical leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated capability to independently own and scale HR initiatives for a global, multi-layered department across various time zones.
- Direct experience supporting organizations in a high-growth global tech environment facing external regulatory compliance and security demands.
- Experience working in a matrixed, multi-cultural organization, demonstrating the agility to pivot HR strategies as business models evolve.
- Master's degree in Human Resources, MBA, or a related field.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $76000 - $151200 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.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience in Human Resources, or HR Business Partner.
- Bilingual proficiency in both English and Mandarin to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams based in Mainland China and the broader APAC region.
- Experience partnering directly with Engineering, Security, Privacy, or Trust & Safety organizations, with a strong understanding of the unique technical talent landscape.
- Proven ability to lead and execute talent management, organizational design, and performance management strategies in complex, high-growth environments.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to partner effectively with technical leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated capability to independently own and scale HR initiatives for a global, multi-layered department across various time zones.
- Direct experience supporting organizations in a high-growth global tech environment facing external regulatory compliance and security demands.
- Experience working in a matrixed, multi-cultural organization, demonstrating the agility to pivot HR strategies as business models evolve.
- Master's degree in Human Resources, MBA, or a related field.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

Size: 5,001 - 10,000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming

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