ByteDance · 1 day ago
Senior Data Scientist, Global Data Analytics for Internal Audit Function - AMS
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $329K/yr
5+ years expByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products, including TikTok. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to build data products that empower continuous auditing and enhance risk identification across various business domains.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Social MediaDigital MediaBig DataContentData MiningFoundational AIInternet
Responsibilities
Partner with Internal Audit teams to design data-driven testing strategies for audits spanning e-commerce, ads), trust & safety, platform integrity, payments, infrastructure and security
Translate audit objectives, risk hypotheses, and control designs into scalable analytical tests, metrics, and models
Provide hands-on analytics support for audit engagements, including:
Understanding end-to-end business and product workflows
Conducting stakeholder interviews and system walkthroughs
Developing complex queries and analytical logic
Performing population completeness, accuracy, and integrity testing
Identifying anomalies, trends, and risk signals
Define and monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and risk-aligned metrics embedded within product and operational data
Analyze user behavior, monetization flows, content or transaction lifecycles, and system events to identify emerging or systemic risks
Bridge traditional audit concepts with modern data and product to surface insights not discoverable through manual testing
Data inventory and lineage: Develop a deep understanding of the company’s data ecosystem, including applications, event streams, operational databases, and data warehouses. Identify and maintain an inventory of critical data assets relevant to audit and risk use cases; assess data lineage, ownership, and reliability to support audit defensibility and repeatability
Data Warehousing and data foundations: Design, build, and maintain audit-ready data warehouses or data marts across multiple business verticals, ensuring performant, and well-modeled datasets. Implement robust data quality checks, reconciliation logic, and monitoring to ensure the completeness and accuracy of key datasets used for audit and risk analytics
Contribute to the Internal Audit continuous auditing strategy, identifying opportunities to automate recurring audit procedures and control testing
Build and maintain ETL pipelines, reusable analytics frameworks, and dashboards that enable: ongoing monitoring of control effectiveness; early detection of control breakdowns or abnormal patterns; scalable reuse across audit engagements and regions
Where appropriate, leverage statistical methods, anomaly detection, or machine learning to enhance risk signal detection—while ensuring interpretability and auditability
Data Enablement & Analytics Democratization: systematically map relationships between business processes, risks, controls, and data to create reusable analytics assets; enable self-service analytics for auditors by developing standardized datasets, documentation, and dashboards; upskill audit team members through knowledge sharing, training sessions, and practical guidance on using data effectively in audits
Stakeholder Relationships: Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders, including data partners and owners across different business verticals. Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
Professional Development: Continue to develop and expand knowledge in data analytics practices, machine learning, AI, and ByteDance products through continuous education
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, or Economics
Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one mainstream programming language (Python or R)
5+ years of hands-on experience in data analytics, data science, analytics engineering, or data engineering roles
Proven experience building and maintaining data products in one or more of the following domains: Product analytics (user behavior, funnels, experiments, KPIs); Business or marketing analytics (growth, monetization, performance measurement); Risk analytics, compliance analytics, or continuous audit analytics
Solid understanding of ETL processes, data integration, and large-scale data processing, with cloud-based data infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake)
Experience implementing data quality checks, reconciliations, or data observability solutions
Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business or risk questions into structured analytical approaches
Preferred
Working knowledge of large scale data processing techniques, such as Hadoop, Flink and MapReduce
Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and analytics engineering best practices
Experience operating in a decentralized or federated data environment with multiple data owners
Strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills
Strong presentation and data storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.8BKey Investors
Capital TodayG42Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Japan,Sequoia Capital
2025-11-20Secondary Market· $300M
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
Recent News
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