Technical Privacy Investigator - TikTok PDPO - Dublin

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 TikTok's products and platforms.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Technical Privacy Investigator. In this role, you will be responsible for conducting thorough investigations and assessments to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and policies. You will leverage your technical expertise to analyze data, identify privacy risks, and recommend appropriate remedial actions. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of privacy laws, data protection practices, and a passion for maintaining data privacy and security.

- Investigate privacy issues: analyze evidence, determine root cause, assess impact, and define remediation. - Work with technical partners (engineering, security, data): drive containment, evidence collection, and fixes. - Assess privacy risk in systems, data flows, and processes; propose pragmatic mitigation plans. - Ensure compliant incident handling: follow PDPO/Response SOPs, maintain traceability, and support audit readiness. - Improve the program: turn incident learnings into repeatable playbooks, detection/monitoring opportunities, and prevention insights. - Communicate clearly: produce concise investigation narratives and recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.