Talent Acquisition Partner, TikTok USDS JV (San Jose)

About the Team

Join the USDS (U.S. Data Security) Talent Acquisition team as a Talent Acquisition Partner supporting our rapidly growing organization. In this role, you will help build the engineering, data, and product teams that sit at the core of our U.S. Data Security mission. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career recruiter to develop their skills in a high-impact, fast-paced tech environment. You will partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to drive sourcing strategies and manage full-cycle hiring.

What You'll Do

• End-to-End Recruitment: Lead full-cycle recruitment across multiple business lines, primarily driving Security and Engineering searches.
• Stakeholder Consultation: Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders and HR partners. Assess talent requirements, provide market insights, influence hiring decisions, and advise on optimal hiring strategies.
• Drive Hiring Strategies end to end: Utilize innovative techniques, talent research, and market mapping to discover, identify, and attract top passive talent in highly competitive, niche tech and security markets.
• Candidate Assessment & Experience: Screen and select candidates effectively by rigorously assessing their technical skills, business acumen, and alignment with TikTok's fast-paced culture. Ensure a seamless, high-quality candidate experience from application to onboarding.
• Complex Offer Negotiation: Drive the interview and offer stages, utilizing internal parity data and market intelligence to make salary recommendations and successfully close complex offer negotiations.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Partner with hiring teams to analyze pipeline metrics (e.g., funnel conversion, channel distribution), identify process bottlenecks, and implement proactive recruitment solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Navigate the highly regulated nuances of the USDS environment and manage broader TA-related projects—such as pipeline optimization, interviewer training, or referral programs—to drive continuous improvement across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Recruitment Experience: 3+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience, including at least 2+ years of dedicated experience supporting Technical, Security & Privacy, R&D, or Trust & Safety organizations.
• Requisition Management: Proven ability to manage diverse, complex technical and non-technical requisitions simultaneously, including exposure to leadership-level hiring.
• Data Fluency: Strong analytical skills and data fluency to diagnose pipeline challenges and present clear, actionable solutions to leadership.
• Leadership Recruitment: Proven experience managing leadership and specialized technical searches, with a strong track record of independently closing senior-level candidates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Matrix Environment Experience: Experience operating within a large, highly matrixed organization, demonstrating the ability to navigate complexity, build trust, and align multiple senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Adaptability: High intellectual curiosity with the agility to quickly context-switch between complex engineering profiles and operational/business functions as priorities evolve.
• Builder Mindset: An entrepreneurial, problem-solving approach with the ability to thrive, execute, and create structure in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.