What are the responsibilities and job description for the HR Business Partner - HR&M and Workplace Services - San Jose - USDS position at TikTok USDS Joint Venture?
Responsibilities
About Our Team
Great companies are built on great products, but great products are developed and brought to the market by great people. At TikTok USDS JV, there is nothing more important to promote the rapid growth of the organization than hiring and developing the industry's best talent. Your role as an HR4HR Business Partner will have a profound impact on mission-critical aspects of the organization's development. You will help build a best-in-class HR function by combining talent acquisition expertise with strategic HR business partnership.
The Role
In this hybrid role, you will serve as a strategic business partner to our HR (People) and Workplace Services teams, guiding talent management, performance, career development, and employee relations while simultaneously driving full-cycle recruitment strategy. You will be an individual contributor supporting the function across the US.
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Partnership: Work closely with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders to ensure both Talent Acquisition and HR strategies are fully aligned with the business's rapid growth.
2. Full-Cycle Recruitment: Lead the end-to-end recruitment process (intake, sourcing, screening, offer management) to attract diverse and ambitious talent for HR and Workplace Services roles. Provide a high-touch experience for candidates from application to offer and subsequent onboarding.
3. Talent Management & Development: Guide talent management, performance reviews, career development paths, and workforce planning for the supported functions.
4. Employee Relations: Proactively address specific ER issues or employee conflict issues with professional expertise and sound management judgment.
5. Organizational Culture: Assist in team building and promote company culture, ensuring a healthy team atmosphere that supports rapid business development.
6. Data-Driven Insights: Use data and analytics to deliver recruitment reports, market insights, and talent trends to influence better hiring and management practices.
7. Project Management: Lead or participate in company-level Organizational Effectiveness (OE) and/or Organizational Culture (OC) projects.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. 5 years of professional HR experience, with a proven track record in HR Business Partnering and related experience in Talent Acquisition (full-cycle recruiting).
2. Expertise in managing the end-to-end interview process and closing complex equity offers.
3. Deep understanding of HR modules: recruitment, performance management, employee relations, talent development, organizational effectiveness.
4. Uncompromising integrity with a proven track record of maintaining strict confidentiality, serving as a trusted advisor capable of managing highly sensitive organizational and employee information.
5. Bachelor's degree or above.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience working with multi-cultural teams and scaling global, matrixed organizations.
2. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build productive relationships with senior leaders.
3. Self-motivated, resilient, and creative, with a strong growth mindset and learning agility.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS 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://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $124800 - $228000 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About Our Team
Great companies are built on great products, but great products are developed and brought to the market by great people. At TikTok USDS JV, there is nothing more important to promote the rapid growth of the organization than hiring and developing the industry's best talent. Your role as an HR4HR Business Partner will have a profound impact on mission-critical aspects of the organization's development. You will help build a best-in-class HR function by combining talent acquisition expertise with strategic HR business partnership.
The Role
In this hybrid role, you will serve as a strategic business partner to our HR (People) and Workplace Services teams, guiding talent management, performance, career development, and employee relations while simultaneously driving full-cycle recruitment strategy. You will be an individual contributor supporting the function across the US.
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Partnership: Work closely with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders to ensure both Talent Acquisition and HR strategies are fully aligned with the business's rapid growth.
2. Full-Cycle Recruitment: Lead the end-to-end recruitment process (intake, sourcing, screening, offer management) to attract diverse and ambitious talent for HR and Workplace Services roles. Provide a high-touch experience for candidates from application to offer and subsequent onboarding.
3. Talent Management & Development: Guide talent management, performance reviews, career development paths, and workforce planning for the supported functions.
4. Employee Relations: Proactively address specific ER issues or employee conflict issues with professional expertise and sound management judgment.
5. Organizational Culture: Assist in team building and promote company culture, ensuring a healthy team atmosphere that supports rapid business development.
6. Data-Driven Insights: Use data and analytics to deliver recruitment reports, market insights, and talent trends to influence better hiring and management practices.
7. Project Management: Lead or participate in company-level Organizational Effectiveness (OE) and/or Organizational Culture (OC) projects.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
1. 5 years of professional HR experience, with a proven track record in HR Business Partnering and related experience in Talent Acquisition (full-cycle recruiting).
2. Expertise in managing the end-to-end interview process and closing complex equity offers.
3. Deep understanding of HR modules: recruitment, performance management, employee relations, talent development, organizational effectiveness.
4. Uncompromising integrity with a proven track record of maintaining strict confidentiality, serving as a trusted advisor capable of managing highly sensitive organizational and employee information.
5. Bachelor's degree or above.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Experience working with multi-cultural teams and scaling global, matrixed organizations.
2. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build productive relationships with senior leaders.
3. Self-motivated, resilient, and creative, with a strong growth mindset and learning agility.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS 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://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $124800 - $228000 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Salary : $124,800 - $228,000