Data Scientist - PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Organization)

Responsibilities
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.

About the team
PDPO(Privacy and Data Protection Office) is the organization to lead, supervise, and empower all TikTok's privacy work in an accountable and industry leading way. This team is the expert in the landscape of privacy risks and passionate about consulting across the company on implementing the proper safeguards and technical mitigations to ensure that our users’ privacy is honored across the TikTok's products and platforms.

About the role
We are seeking a Data Scientist to join the Trust organization within PDPO to utilize data-driven techniques in building solutions to help measure, monitor, identify, and envision TikTok's privacy evolution. You will be expected to conduct rigorous data investigations to derive actionable insight and present data and its implications in a high quality, clear and concise manner and build deep domain knowledge in privacy from your day to day work.

• Work as Centralized Data Experts (CDE) to conduct impact sizing analysis during critical privacy incident investigation and response to data requests from media or regulators.
• Define metrics to measure various privacy domain areas as well as operational success of TikTok privacy practise, discover insights, identify areas of improvement and tell compelling stories
• Build and improve privacy operationalized analytics tools and platforms
• Use and improve data to find root causes, patterns and trends for privacy incidents, and suggest potential opportunities for privacy gaps and process improvements
• Conceptualize, develop privacy monitoring dashboard and build alert systems to minimize privacy risk
• Develop or improve existing algorithms to detect privacy risks through big data
• Collaborate with various XFN teams (eg. legal, audit, security, engineering and product) and provide data

analysis on various privacy projects
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or degrees above in Statistics, Data Science, Computer science, Operations Research, Engineering or relevant STEM majors.
• Hands-on experience in data science track (e.g. Metrics and measurement, pattern/trend detection, statistical modeling)
• Proficient in SQL/Hive/Python, experienced in Linux, Git and Data pipeline.
• Experience with data visualization tools or platforms (e.g. Dashboards, Tableau, etc.)
• Strong communication and project management skills. Be comfortable working with a large number of XFNs to lead and drive projects at different stages.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of data privacy, security and data protection is a plus
• Passionate about TikTok products and data privacy protection and self-motivated

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
Job Information
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $240000 annually.

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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.

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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).

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The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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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:

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1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

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2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

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3. Exercising sound judgment.