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About the Team
The Safety Regulatory Compliance Operations (SRCO) pillar executes our US legal obligations while navigating global regulatory overlaps. Sitting within Trust & Safety, SRCO spans seven specialized pillars: Legal Response, Child Safety, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Emergency Response, Law Enforcement Outreach, and Safety Compliance Operations (for emerging regulations), all backed by a dedicated Quality Assurance engine. We bridge law enforcement, rights holders, and user privacy to build platform trust through precise, high-integrity execution. Digital Rights Operations unifies our Intellectual Property (IP) and Privacy Operations pillars into a single, scalable operating system for user, creator, and rights-holder protections in the U.S. market. The function handles copyright and trademark complaints, counter-notifications, and appeals; data subject rights requests; region-change and account-integrity flows; and privacy-driven content removals across established products and emerging entities. By combining rigorous legal execution with product partnership and workflow automation, Digital Rights Operations turns evolving law, policy, and product change into auditable, high-integrity operations that hold up under regulatory and public scrutiny.
Role Description
We are seeking an exceptional operational leader to serve as Head of Digital Rights, leading our Intellectual Property and Privacy Operations pillars. This role sits at the critical intersection of legal compliance, product architecture, and human-centered leadership. As our platform and regulatory environment continue to scale — new laws, new products, new entity types, and new intake channels — this leader will drive the evolution of Digital Rights Operations into a highly mature, proactive center of operational excellence.
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Product-to-Operations Bridge: Partner directly with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy teams during design and launch reviews (PRDs, feature specs, new-law rollouts) to define "Operational Readiness" for IP and Privacy, identify compliance gaps, and secure downstream response capabilities — including intake, tooling, SOPs, and staffing — before code ships or a new obligation takes effect.
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Intake & Routing Architecture: Own the design of intake surfaces (webforms, dedicated aliases, partner channels) and routing logic for IP complaints, counter-notifications, appeals, and data subject requests, so valid requests reach the right queue quickly and invalid or misdirected requests are rejected or rerouted with minimal manual handling.
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Technical Debt & Root-Cause Remediation: Systematically identify structural friction, manual workarounds, and tooling gaps across IP and Privacy. Work directly with cross-functional partners to automate workflows, harden QA, and modernize operational infrastructure while preserving auditability and review quality.
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Executive & Crisis Escalations: Serve as the ultimate operational point of contact for complex, high-stakes IP and Privacy escalations — from copyright counter-notifications and MediaMatch appeals to legislation-driven data subject requests and public-facing removal disputes — synthesizing operational risk quickly for executive leadership and counsel.
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High-SLA Execution: Maintain exceptional accuracy, quality, and speed across all IP and Privacy queues (including complaint intake, counter-notifications, appeals, DSRs, region-change, and privacy-driven content removals), leveraging data insights to optimize performance, backlog strategy, and workforce planning across employees and vendor support.
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SOP & Workflow Modernization: Continuously refine operational frameworks, protocols, and SOPs to adapt to evolving copyright, privacy, and data-protection standards, new product features, and new entity types (e.g., agencies, sellers, partners). Turn bespoke manual processes into a smaller set of repeatable, systematized workflows.
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Legal, Policy & Global Alignment: Partner closely with USDS JV Legal, Policy, and Global counterparts to settle ownership on decisions that touch both jurisdictions (e.g., appeal path changes, cross-border enforcement, action attribution in Lighthouse/MediaMatch), and ensure U.S. operational execution aligns seamlessly with external stakeholder and rights-holder strategy.
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Pillar Leadership: Direct, mentor, and scale a multi-pillar team spanning IP and Privacy Operations, empowering frontline leads and specialty analysts while maintaining direct line-of-sight to operational realities and ticket-level detail.
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Sustainable Performance: Foster a high-bar culture focused on speed, precision, and continuous learning, while actively driving initiatives around mental wellness, team recognition, and sustainable pacing for teams that regularly handle sensitive rights-holder disputes and privacy-sensitive user data.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum 5 Years of Complex Operations Leadership: Extensive experience leading teams in Intellectual Property Operations, Privacy Operations, Trust & Safety, Data Protection, or complex Legal Operations environments, including direct accountability for legally-driven SLAs.
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Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree required (J.D., Advanced Degree, CIPP/US or equivalent privacy certification, or paralegal certification is a strong plus); or equivalent practical experience in IP operations, privacy operations, or regulatory operations.
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Proven Track Record of Operational Maturity: Demonstrated success taking complex IP or Privacy functions through periods of rapid scale, backlog remediation, process re-engineering, vendor/BPO onboarding, and technical modernization.
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Legal & Technical Fluency: Exceptional ability to grasp complex statutory requirements — including U.S. copyright and DMCA-style processes, state and federal privacy laws, and cross-border data protection standards — and technical system architectures rapidly. (Experience transitioning from government, regulatory, rights-holder, or legal backgrounds into tech operations is highly valued.)
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Self-Directed Curiosity: A natural problem solver who independently learns new technologies, data tools, and legal frameworks to solve root-cause problems in both IP and Privacy domains.
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Product & Engineering Literacy: Comfort evaluating product architecture, reading functional specs, and advocating for IP- and Privacy-specific tooling needs (intake forms, review consoles, action attribution, automation) with Product and Engineering managers.
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Empathetic Leadership: Proven ability to manage high-stress operations while maintaining high morale, psychological safety, and team retention, especially through organizational change, site transitions, and leadership turnover.
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to everyday life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
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 $132300 - $316800 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
The Safety Regulatory Compliance Operations (SRCO) pillar executes our US legal obligations while navigating global regulatory overlaps. Sitting within Trust & Safety, SRCO spans seven specialized pillars: Legal Response, Child Safety, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Emergency Response, Law Enforcement Outreach, and Safety Compliance Operations (for emerging regulations), all backed by a dedicated Quality Assurance engine. We bridge law enforcement, rights holders, and user privacy to build platform trust through precise, high-integrity execution. Digital Rights Operations unifies our Intellectual Property (IP) and Privacy Operations pillars into a single, scalable operating system for user, creator, and rights-holder protections in the U.S. market. The function handles copyright and trademark complaints, counter-notifications, and appeals; data subject rights requests; region-change and account-integrity flows; and privacy-driven content removals across established products and emerging entities. By combining rigorous legal execution with product partnership and workflow automation, Digital Rights Operations turns evolving law, policy, and product change into auditable, high-integrity operations that hold up under regulatory and public scrutiny.
Role Description
We are seeking an exceptional operational leader to serve as Head of Digital Rights, leading our Intellectual Property and Privacy Operations pillars. This role sits at the critical intersection of legal compliance, product architecture, and human-centered leadership. As our platform and regulatory environment continue to scale — new laws, new products, new entity types, and new intake channels — this leader will drive the evolution of Digital Rights Operations into a highly mature, proactive center of operational excellence.
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Product-to-Operations Bridge: Partner directly with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy teams during design and launch reviews (PRDs, feature specs, new-law rollouts) to define "Operational Readiness" for IP and Privacy, identify compliance gaps, and secure downstream response capabilities — including intake, tooling, SOPs, and staffing — before code ships or a new obligation takes effect.
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Intake & Routing Architecture: Own the design of intake surfaces (webforms, dedicated aliases, partner channels) and routing logic for IP complaints, counter-notifications, appeals, and data subject requests, so valid requests reach the right queue quickly and invalid or misdirected requests are rejected or rerouted with minimal manual handling.
-
Technical Debt & Root-Cause Remediation: Systematically identify structural friction, manual workarounds, and tooling gaps across IP and Privacy. Work directly with cross-functional partners to automate workflows, harden QA, and modernize operational infrastructure while preserving auditability and review quality.
-
Executive & Crisis Escalations: Serve as the ultimate operational point of contact for complex, high-stakes IP and Privacy escalations — from copyright counter-notifications and MediaMatch appeals to legislation-driven data subject requests and public-facing removal disputes — synthesizing operational risk quickly for executive leadership and counsel.
-
High-SLA Execution: Maintain exceptional accuracy, quality, and speed across all IP and Privacy queues (including complaint intake, counter-notifications, appeals, DSRs, region-change, and privacy-driven content removals), leveraging data insights to optimize performance, backlog strategy, and workforce planning across employees and vendor support.
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SOP & Workflow Modernization: Continuously refine operational frameworks, protocols, and SOPs to adapt to evolving copyright, privacy, and data-protection standards, new product features, and new entity types (e.g., agencies, sellers, partners). Turn bespoke manual processes into a smaller set of repeatable, systematized workflows.
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Legal, Policy & Global Alignment: Partner closely with USDS JV Legal, Policy, and Global counterparts to settle ownership on decisions that touch both jurisdictions (e.g., appeal path changes, cross-border enforcement, action attribution in Lighthouse/MediaMatch), and ensure U.S. operational execution aligns seamlessly with external stakeholder and rights-holder strategy.
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Pillar Leadership: Direct, mentor, and scale a multi-pillar team spanning IP and Privacy Operations, empowering frontline leads and specialty analysts while maintaining direct line-of-sight to operational realities and ticket-level detail.
-
Sustainable Performance: Foster a high-bar culture focused on speed, precision, and continuous learning, while actively driving initiatives around mental wellness, team recognition, and sustainable pacing for teams that regularly handle sensitive rights-holder disputes and privacy-sensitive user data.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum 5 Years of Complex Operations Leadership: Extensive experience leading teams in Intellectual Property Operations, Privacy Operations, Trust & Safety, Data Protection, or complex Legal Operations environments, including direct accountability for legally-driven SLAs.
-
Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree required (J.D., Advanced Degree, CIPP/US or equivalent privacy certification, or paralegal certification is a strong plus); or equivalent practical experience in IP operations, privacy operations, or regulatory operations.
-
Proven Track Record of Operational Maturity: Demonstrated success taking complex IP or Privacy functions through periods of rapid scale, backlog remediation, process re-engineering, vendor/BPO onboarding, and technical modernization.
-
Legal & Technical Fluency: Exceptional ability to grasp complex statutory requirements — including U.S. copyright and DMCA-style processes, state and federal privacy laws, and cross-border data protection standards — and technical system architectures rapidly. (Experience transitioning from government, regulatory, rights-holder, or legal backgrounds into tech operations is highly valued.)
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Self-Directed Curiosity: A natural problem solver who independently learns new technologies, data tools, and legal frameworks to solve root-cause problems in both IP and Privacy domains.
-
Product & Engineering Literacy: Comfort evaluating product architecture, reading functional specs, and advocating for IP- and Privacy-specific tooling needs (intake forms, review consoles, action attribution, automation) with Product and Engineering managers.
-
Empathetic Leadership: Proven ability to manage high-stress operations while maintaining high morale, psychological safety, and team retention, especially through organizational change, site transitions, and leadership turnover.
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to everyday life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
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 $132300 - $316800 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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as an Intellectual Property Attorney
Translate your Australian IP credentials clearly
U.S. employers often don't recognize Australian Juris Doctor or Bachelor of Laws degrees on sight. Get a credential evaluation confirming equivalency to a U.S. J.D. before applications, since E-3 specialty occupation requires a directly related degree.
Target firms with active patent prosecution practices
Large IP boutiques and Big Law firms with dedicated patent groups file LCAs regularly and understand the E-3 process. Focus on practices handling Australian-origin patent families, where your background in Australian IP law adds direct client value.
Clarify bar admission requirements before accepting offers
Some IP attorney roles require state bar admission as a condition of employment, which affects your E-3 eligibility timeline. Confirm whether the employer needs you admitted before your start date or will sponsor you while you sit the bar.
Ask employers about LCA specialty occupation documentation
The DOL requires your employer to certify the role as a specialty occupation on the LCA. For IP Attorney roles involving technical patent work, ask your employer to document the specific degree requirement in the job description before filing.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for end-to-end preparation
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA filing, visa paperwork, and consulate preparation. This avoids the common mistake of arriving at your interview without a certified LCA in hand.
Prepare for consulate questions about dual-use technical roles
Consular officers sometimes probe whether patent attorney roles requiring science or engineering backgrounds constitute legal or technical work. Bring documentation linking your degree field directly to your assigned technology areas at the firm.
E-3 Visa Intellectual Property Attorney: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Intellectual Property Attorney jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Search Migrate Mate to filter IP Attorney roles by employers with E-3 sponsorship history. Generic job boards don't surface sponsorship willingness, so you risk applying to firms that have never sponsored an Australian. Migrate Mate's listings are matched to E-3-eligible roles, saving you the step of cold-qualifying each employer yourself.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an Intellectual Property Attorney role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. IP Attorney positions require at minimum a bachelor's degree in law, a related technical field, or both, which meets the E-3 specialty occupation standard. Roles involving patent prosecution in technical areas like engineering or biochemistry are especially straightforward to document, since the degree-to-duty link is direct and well established with the DOL.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for Australian IP attorneys?
The E-3 is available only to Australian citizens and has no lottery, no annual cap, and faster employer processing than the H-1B visa. H-1B petitions require USCIS approval and cap slots that are heavily oversubscribed. For an Australian IP attorney, the E-3 is a straightforward path: your employer files an LCA with the DOL, and you attend a consulate interview in Australia without waiting for a lottery result.
Can I work as an IP attorney on an E-3 while waiting to be admitted to a U.S. state bar?
It depends on the employer and state. Some firms hire foreign-credentialed attorneys for patent prosecution or IP advisory work that doesn't require state bar admission, which can qualify for E-3 status. If the role title is 'attorney' and the state requires bar admission to practice, you'll need to clarify the admission timeline with your employer before the LCA is filed.