Data Compliance and Access Operations Senior Analyst

About TikTok
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 products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, 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 users we serve. Join us.

GSO INTRO
The mission of TikTok's Global Security Organization is to build and earn trust by reducing risk and securing our businesses and products. Also known as "GSO", this team is the foundation of our efforts to keep TikTok safe, secure, and operating at scale for over 1 billion people around the world. We work to ensure that the TikTok platform is safe and secure, that our users' experience and their data remains safe from external or internal threats, and that we comply with global regulations wherever TikTok operates.

TikTok is seeking a Senior Analyst for Access Operations to be part of the Data Protection team and will be responsible for overseeing operations and management of data access and data transfer requests to validate compliance with relevant company policy, geographical regulation, contractual commitments, and confidentiality requirements. As a direct report to the Access Management and Compliance Lead within the Global Security Organization, you are part of a team that manages the security of TikTok data through access management processes and controls across the entire data lifecycle, from creation to destruction.

Further, you will oversee policies and procedures for managing access based and will ingest organizational policies to create enforcement mechanisms. This will entail understanding requirements, designing controls, and ultimately managing the ongoing operation of those controls.

The candidate must be skilled in conducting technical analysis of access policies, rules, and permissions as well as evaluating appropriateness of roles and transactions. The candidate must also have the ability to communicate well, motivate and lead cross-functional teams independently, participate in coordinating response and defensive actions as it relates to identity and access assurance, and disseminate security information as appropriate in support of TikTok's critical business, go to market, and operational infrastructure needs.

Responsibilities

• Build and review technical and functional requirements for in-house or external technologies to support access management and assurance needs.
• Design and implement access management and validation programs (people, process, and technology) to mitigate security threats and risks related to access that may impact business data through a holistic global program-oriented approach.
• Design and implement the access review process, ensuring that access is reviewed regularly, both for appropriateness of access as well as privilege levels for all users.
• Guide the team in developing use cases and integrating access management technologies with related cybersecurity technologies (e.g., security incident and event management, data classification, vulnerability management, identity management, authentication requirements).
• Create reporting and response execution for Access Management processes.
• Deliver projects in alignment with established guidelines for data security and data regionalization across global regions.
• Provide input in cross-functional Legal and Engineering engagements where security operations are required to advance Global Security-Data Protection owned projects.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge and remain current on new developments in access management tools and capabilities and industry knowledge.
• In-depth experience in designing and deploying access management technologies and validation controls in enterprise-class organizations.
• In-depth knowledge of data privacy regulations and standards, such as GDPR or other global data protection laws.
• Strong understanding of data security, access controls, data security principles, global data transfer mechanisms.
• Strong critical thinking skills and process-driven mindset to apply to standardize key security and privacy solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or industry equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years experience working in cybersecurity.
• Relevant certifications such as CISA, CISSP.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams (both technical and non-technical), influence without authority and persuade priorities, objectives and controls to stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements or non-standard situations.

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