Senior Level Legal Counsel Jobs

Responsibilities

About the Team: Our legal team provides key support for all TikTok’s innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and platforms. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated legal guidance and support. The TikTok team is growing fast and is seeking experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join. One of the critical challenges is the need for our team to provide exceptional legal support for TikTok's competition/antitrust matters.

Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of antitrust/competition law and principles, and review, interpret, and analyze legal information in the subject matter area, reporting into TikTok's Global Head of Antitrust in New York.
- Track and synthesize antitrust developments and trends in the US and worldwide.
- Manage governmental antitrust/competition-related inquiries through direct communications with antitrust authorities and supervision of outside counsel. Should have direct experience with regulators at US DOJ, FTC, and state AGs.
- Act as an antitrust/competition advisor to both business and legal colleagues, including on potential investments/acquisitions (including foreign direct investment laws), product guidance, compliance and policies.
- Lead responses to antitrust third-party subpoenas and CIDs, actively supporting the wider litigation team.
- Support international Global Antitrust colleagues on matters in Europe and elsewhere.
- Assist in the design and implementation of company-wide competition compliance programs and initiatives. Provide internal competition trainings.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:
- In-depth competition law experience in private practice or a corporate law department with a highly regarded firm or organization, preferably with experience in digital platforms and other cutting-edge tech issues.
- Hold a J.D. from accredited US law school. Candidates must be admitted to the bar of at least one US jurisdiction.
- Have a highly collaborative approach and strong inter-personal skills. Exercising good judgment in a fast-paced environment is key.
- Have strong communication skills that allow you to interact with a wide variety of individuals and to convey legal issues clearly and simply.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Top-flight in-house legal experience, including representing tech clients, is strongly preferred. We are also interested in relevant experiences at US antitrust regulators (FTC, DOJ) and in top law firms.
- Interest and exposure to international antitrust practice is a plus. Preference will be given to experience counseling clients in all aspects of global antitrust law.
- Exposure to a wide range of platform issues, including artificial intelligence, advertising, app distribution, e-commerce, payments, and international developments in digital platform regulation.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok 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/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210600 - $366000 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.