Senior Data Scientist: Global Data Analytics - Internal Audit Innovation & Enablement
ByteDance
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: Data Science
- Industry: Consumer
- Post Date: 05/30/2026
- Website: bytedance.com
- Company Address: , Beijing, China, 100098
About ByteDance
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.Job Description
Internal Audit is a global function responsible for providing independent assurance and evaluating the company's risk management, governance and internal control processes to determine if they are designed and operating effectively. The Internal Audit team plans and executes audit projects according to our risk-based audit plan by evaluating financial, compliance, operational, and IT processes and controls. We work with business functions in addressing risks and improving the control environment through timely and comprehensive audit work and tracking of remediation actions until completion. We are looking for a data scientist who will power our mission by building data products that enable and empower continuous auditing and the identification and discovery of risks throughout various business domains , spanning product and technology. You will be deploying your data analytics and data science skills to be part of the mission to build state-of-the-art analytics products for the audit team. 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: a) Understanding end-to-end business and product workflows b) Conducting stakeholder interviews and system walkthroughs c) Developing complex queries and analytical logic d) Performing population completeness, accuracy, and integrity testing e) 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.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - 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 Qualifications: - 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.
Job Information
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are 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 enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, 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. 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
ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.