Product Counsel

Responsibilities

Company Summary:
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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
Our team provides legal guidance for innovative consumer-facing products and services, and integrated platforms servicing our global video market. We help technical and business teams achieve their goals by understanding our offerings and providing recommendations to help our products comply with legal requirements. The team is growing quickly and is seeking highly experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join.

Responsibilities
- Act as the primary legal counsel for several business lines responsible for advising on the launch of new and updated consumer products, features and services, identifying and mitigating critical legal and reputation risks, addressing pre-litigation disputes, and determining appropriate compliance controls.
- You will serve as a key partner to product leadership and lead development of strategies to address legal issues in creative, business-centric ways.
- You will build processes that address risk and allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly and provide strategic guidance, including guides and playbooks for the business.
- Collaborate with product, product operations, public policy, communications, privacy, trust & safety and other cross-functional colleagues on product guidance, communications, policy development, and enforcement decisions.
- Periodic limited travel, domestic and international, will be required

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) with membership in good standing in a U.S. State Bar
- Extensive experience product counseling at an enterprise technology or leading consumer-facing digital application, ideally including user-generated content.
- Experience with working with international teams in various time zones in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment

Preferred Qualifications:
- The successful candidate will be inquisitive, enthusiastic about technology, enjoy continuous challenges and a fast pace, and demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
- Experience counseling on privacy and IP issues related to product counseling for a user-generated platform
- Familiarity with generative AI