Key skills
Collaboration
About this role
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.
Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us — whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop — GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience.
The Security Strategy, Risk, and Resilience (SRR) team is responsible for TikTok's Governance, Risk and Compliance function working closely with cross-functional partners to manage security risks, mature security operations, and build organizational resilience. We support our partners in meeting industry cybersecurity compliance standards and government regulations by developing and driving the organization’s cybersecurity strategy, establishing and maintaining a comprehensive business continuity management program, creating and maintaining governing security policies, implementing our security control framework, conducting regular security risk and control assessments, and staying up-to-date on global compliance initiatives and evolving regulatory requirements.
The Security Strategy, Risk and Resilience (SRR) Controls Management Specialist is an experienced individual contributor responsible for driving the lifecycle of TikTok's cybersecurity controls. This includes control testing and monitoring, identification and remediation of control gaps, and facilitating internal and external audits. In addition, this individual will drive security compliance programs and compliance engineering projects to improve our compliance program maturity. You would be a great fit for this role if you:
1. Have a strong security controls and compliance mindset with experience in evaluating and testing controls against leading security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and others
2. Enjoy fostering collaboration with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional partnerships to solve challenging and unique cybersecurity risks with product, engineering and other business teams
3. Thrive in dynamic, global environments and enjoy engineering an automated solution to a problem
4. Possess a strong appetite for acquiring new knowledge and skills in cybersecurity and staying up-to-date on emerging trends
5. Excel at analyzing complex systems and ideas and making these easy to understand
6. Can provide candid and clear feedback on critical cybersecurity initiatives from policies to application designs and much more!
Responsibilities
As a SRR Controls Management Specialist, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the scoping and maturity of the cybersecurity compliance program to align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements including but not limited to ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2
- Leading control design walkthroughs and tests of operating effectiveness for product and business line controls against security requirements and compliance obligations
- Preparing and supporting control owners and process owners for internal and external audits by conducting thorough examinations of people, processes, technologies and key system configurations and helping identify best-in-class evidence
- Influencing and collaborating with key stakeholders to support, track, and report on remediation efforts for identified security control gaps
- Designing and engineering solutions to automate control testing, security control compliance, and control maturity reporting
- Maintaining a global security controls library to include periodic updates and validation of security controls and owners
- Communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders on cybersecurity risk and control topics and program-specific reporting
Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us — whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop — GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience.
The Security Strategy, Risk, and Resilience (SRR) team is responsible for TikTok's Governance, Risk and Compliance function working closely with cross-functional partners to manage security risks, mature security operations, and build organizational resilience. We support our partners in meeting industry cybersecurity compliance standards and government regulations by developing and driving the organization’s cybersecurity strategy, establishing and maintaining a comprehensive business continuity management program, creating and maintaining governing security policies, implementing our security control framework, conducting regular security risk and control assessments, and staying up-to-date on global compliance initiatives and evolving regulatory requirements.
The Security Strategy, Risk and Resilience (SRR) Controls Management Specialist is an experienced individual contributor responsible for driving the lifecycle of TikTok's cybersecurity controls. This includes control testing and monitoring, identification and remediation of control gaps, and facilitating internal and external audits. In addition, this individual will drive security compliance programs and compliance engineering projects to improve our compliance program maturity. You would be a great fit for this role if you:
1. Have a strong security controls and compliance mindset with experience in evaluating and testing controls against leading security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and others
2. Enjoy fostering collaboration with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional partnerships to solve challenging and unique cybersecurity risks with product, engineering and other business teams
3. Thrive in dynamic, global environments and enjoy engineering an automated solution to a problem
4. Possess a strong appetite for acquiring new knowledge and skills in cybersecurity and staying up-to-date on emerging trends
5. Excel at analyzing complex systems and ideas and making these easy to understand
6. Can provide candid and clear feedback on critical cybersecurity initiatives from policies to application designs and much more!
Responsibilities
As a SRR Controls Management Specialist, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the scoping and maturity of the cybersecurity compliance program to align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements including but not limited to ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2
- Leading control design walkthroughs and tests of operating effectiveness for product and business line controls against security requirements and compliance obligations
- Preparing and supporting control owners and process owners for internal and external audits by conducting thorough examinations of people, processes, technologies and key system configurations and helping identify best-in-class evidence
- Influencing and collaborating with key stakeholders to support, track, and report on remediation efforts for identified security control gaps
- Designing and engineering solutions to automate control testing, security control compliance, and control maturity reporting
- Maintaining a global security controls library to include periodic updates and validation of security controls and owners
- Communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders on cybersecurity risk and control topics and program-specific reporting