Legal Counsel, Information Security

Responsibilities
Company Summary
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
About the Team:
Our Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs team provides key support for all of TikTok’s innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global video market. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated guidance and compliance support for global privacy and regulatory affairs matters including information security and data privacy. The TikTok team is growing fast and is seeking highly experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join the team. One of the critical challenges is the need for our team to provide exceptional support for information security matters involving TikTok. The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role.
Responsibilities:
- Support development and implementation of information security and data governance processes and policies.
- Work closely with security and other cross-functional teams on reviewing and responding to potential security and data privacy incidents.
- Collaborate with security teams on matters relating to investigations, data defense, data governance, threat defense, risk management, AI, and regulatory compliance.
- Work with legal and product teams globally to review products, features, new applications and initiatives to provide legal risk mitigation strategies to ensure legal compliance for products from an information security perspective.
- Lead legal workflow for new and existing information security vendors, including review and negotiation of agreements and statements of work, maintain standard forms and exhibits, and work with key internal stakeholders across teams.
- Coordinate with legal, information security, trust & safety, data privacy, and other cross-functional colleagues on communication, policy development, and enforcement decisions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree plus a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school
- Member or registered in-house counsel in good standing of the California bar
- 8 or more years of post-qualifications experience, past experiences should include counseling at an enterprise technology or leading consumer-facing digital application, ideally including user-generated content.
- 3 or more years' of data governance or information security experience within a technology company. Background in data privacy preferred.
- Experience with working with international teams in various time zones in a cross-functional environment.
- Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills in a cross-functional and global role.
- Comfortable with technology and distributed architecture a plus.
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 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 [email protected].
Job Information:
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $295000 - $153333 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.

At ByteDance/TikTok our benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support ByteDancers to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off(PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.