Mid Level Risk Management Director Jobs
Mid level risk management director jobs call for professionals ready to own risk frameworks end to end, guide junior analysts, and make consequential decisions with limited oversight. Openings run across Banking & Financial Services, Technology & Software, and Insurance, with 22% remote or hybrid availability, and employers like TikTok USDS Joint Venture, JPMorganChase, and Affirm hiring at this level now.
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Responsibilities
About the Team
TikTok USDS Joint Venture (JV) is seeking an experienced, strategic, and execution-oriented Security, Compliance and Privacy Risk Management Lead to join the USDS JV's Security & Privacy, Compliance Governance and Risk Management team to build, scale, and operationalize our Risk Management function. This role plays a mission-critical role in defining and safeguarding the organization’s cybersecurity, compliance and privacy posture. You will define the vision, governance, framework, and engagement model for managing security, privacy, and compliance risks across the organization. By guiding enterprise-level risk strategy, mentoring analysts, and ensuring disciplined execution of risk processes, you will directly influence organizational resilience, compliance success, and executive-level decision-making.
About the Role
You will lead and grow a high-performing team of risk specialists, transforming technical risk insights into actionable business intelligence. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of starting risk programs from scratch, implementing quantitative risk methodologies (e.g., FAIR), establishing operational rigor, and embedding a culture of risk-informed decision-making across global, fast-paced teams.
Responsibilities:
- Direct and mature the organization's enterprise cybersecurity, compliance and data privacy risk programs; design and implement a centralized process to drive security, privacy, and compliance risk identification, mitigation, and prevention
- Ensure compliance and alignment with frameworks and standards such as NIST RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 31000, MTL, etc.
- Oversee Security and Privacy Risk Assessments, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), Security Impact Analysis, Security Control evaluations and support any internal or external audits as needed
- Build and maintain risk dashboards, registers, and metrics for executive leadership and board oversight
- Establish, refine, and enforce risk management methodologies, documentation practices, and policies to ensure uniform execution across teams and mission areas
- Develop strategies that improve organizational resilience by anticipating systemic risks, identifying high-impact asset exposures, and driving prioritized mitigation
- Partner with Risk Owners, Legal, Product, Security and Privacy teams, Internal/External Audit teams, and IT Operations to build privacy-by-design and secure-by-design principles to strengthen the company's risk posture
- Partner with product, legal, and privacy stakeholders to embed privacy risk management practices across data lifecycle decisions, assessments, and control design
- Lead, coach, and scale a team of risk analysts, and privacy professionals
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive experience in IT, Security/Cyber, Privacy or Enterprise Risk Management in a fast-paced tech environment; 2+ years of direct people management experience with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading risk teams.
- Demonstrated experience developing and/or implementing enterprise risk management programs and processes
- Deep knowledge of industry frameworks such as FAIR, NIST RMF, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 31000, or COBIT etc. Strong analytical and writing skills, organizational, and leadership capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk concepts into business-aligned insights. Experience coordinating large-scale assessments and influencing cross-functional technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Practical experience implementing FAIR or similar quantitative models.
- Working knowledge of modern security disciplines (e.g., DevSecOps, IAM, Change Management, Cloud Security).
- Maintain risk related certifications CRISC, FAIR, CISA, or CISSP.
- Experience operating within highly regulated industries or global enterprise environments.
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)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $179820 - $336960 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.
Responsibilities
About the Team
TikTok USDS Joint Venture (JV) is seeking an experienced, strategic, and execution-oriented Security, Compliance and Privacy Risk Management Lead to join the USDS JV's Security & Privacy, Compliance Governance and Risk Management team to build, scale, and operationalize our Risk Management function. This role plays a mission-critical role in defining and safeguarding the organization’s cybersecurity, compliance and privacy posture. You will define the vision, governance, framework, and engagement model for managing security, privacy, and compliance risks across the organization. By guiding enterprise-level risk strategy, mentoring analysts, and ensuring disciplined execution of risk processes, you will directly influence organizational resilience, compliance success, and executive-level decision-making.
About the Role
You will lead and grow a high-performing team of risk specialists, transforming technical risk insights into actionable business intelligence. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of starting risk programs from scratch, implementing quantitative risk methodologies (e.g., FAIR), establishing operational rigor, and embedding a culture of risk-informed decision-making across global, fast-paced teams.
Responsibilities:
- Direct and mature the organization's enterprise cybersecurity, compliance and data privacy risk programs; design and implement a centralized process to drive security, privacy, and compliance risk identification, mitigation, and prevention
- Ensure compliance and alignment with frameworks and standards such as NIST RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 31000, MTL, etc.
- Oversee Security and Privacy Risk Assessments, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), Security Impact Analysis, Security Control evaluations and support any internal or external audits as needed
- Build and maintain risk dashboards, registers, and metrics for executive leadership and board oversight
- Establish, refine, and enforce risk management methodologies, documentation practices, and policies to ensure uniform execution across teams and mission areas
- Develop strategies that improve organizational resilience by anticipating systemic risks, identifying high-impact asset exposures, and driving prioritized mitigation
- Partner with Risk Owners, Legal, Product, Security and Privacy teams, Internal/External Audit teams, and IT Operations to build privacy-by-design and secure-by-design principles to strengthen the company's risk posture
- Partner with product, legal, and privacy stakeholders to embed privacy risk management practices across data lifecycle decisions, assessments, and control design
- Lead, coach, and scale a team of risk analysts, and privacy professionals
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive experience in IT, Security/Cyber, Privacy or Enterprise Risk Management in a fast-paced tech environment; 2+ years of direct people management experience with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading risk teams.
- Demonstrated experience developing and/or implementing enterprise risk management programs and processes
- Deep knowledge of industry frameworks such as FAIR, NIST RMF, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 31000, or COBIT etc. Strong analytical and writing skills, organizational, and leadership capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk concepts into business-aligned insights. Experience coordinating large-scale assessments and influencing cross-functional technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Practical experience implementing FAIR or similar quantitative models.
- Working knowledge of modern security disciplines (e.g., DevSecOps, IAM, Change Management, Cloud Security).
- Maintain risk related certifications CRISC, FAIR, CISA, or CISSP.
- Experience operating within highly regulated industries or global enterprise environments.
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)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $179820 - $336960 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.
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Mid Level Risk Management Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level risk management director job?
Position yourself around ownership, not just participation. Highlight risk assessments you led, frameworks you built or improved, and decisions you made with real business impact. Tailor your resume to show that you operate with limited oversight, not just under direction. Certifications like FRM or PRM strengthen your profile, and a portfolio of cross-functional projects signals you are ready for the scope these roles require.
Which companies hire mid level risk management directors?
Companies hiring mid level risk management directors right now include TikTok USDS Joint Venture, JPMorganChase, and Affirm, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from financial institutions, insurers, and large corporations building out structured risk functions that need experienced professionals who can run programs independently.
Are there remote mid level risk management director jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by industry and employer. About 22% of mid level risk management director openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broader flexibility in how risk teams operate today. Roles tied to on-site operations or regulated environments tend to require more in-person presence, while enterprise risk and compliance functions often accommodate hybrid arrangements.
How do I move up to a mid level risk management director role?
Growth into a mid level risk management director role comes from deepening technical expertise and taking on progressively larger ownership. Focus on leading risk assessments independently, building measurable improvements to existing frameworks, and demonstrating cross-functional influence. Pursuing credentials such as the FRM or CISA, and volunteering to manage project-level risk for high-visibility initiatives, builds the credibility hiring managers look for at this stage.
Which industries hire the most mid level risk management directors?
Mid Level risk management director roles concentrate in Banking & Financial Services, Technology & Software, and Insurance, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive demand because their regulatory complexity, asset exposure, and operational scale require dedicated professionals who can manage risk programs with real depth and not just surface-level compliance oversight.