Responsibilities
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment, and enterprise services - over 2.5 billion people interact with ByteDance products, including TikTok
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 legal team provides key support for all 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 legal guidance and support. 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 legal support for privacy matters involving TikTok.
**Responsibilities**:
As part of a full service business, commercial and corporate affairs legal team, you will primarily support our international function by:
- engaging strong analytic capabilities to advise on legal risks, business strategies and other issues related to marketing, commercial incentives and content creation;
- creating templates, resources (including playbooks) and training materials and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements supporting multiple stakeholders across TikTok, including brand partnerships and content productions. At this level, you will take responsibility for managing strategic clients on a global and regional level;
- identifying opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures and develop and implement strategies to scale and standardise the use of legal resources;
- partnering with international legal colleagues to review, update and create global terms and ensure a scaled approach to their implementation and acceptance by clients. You will coordinate the legal response to clients questionnaires, including data privacy & regulatory developments;
- collaborating effectively with global, regional and local cross functional teams (including finance, trading, product, partnerships, brand safety, data privacy and information security) to provide legal input on everything from strategy to client queries;
- managing a team, taking responsibility for ensuring effective allocation of legal resources and acting as an escalation point for challenging projects as well as helping people to develop their skills and fulfil their potential (including by organising and delivering training on key topics).
**Qualifications**:
Qualifications
- Brazil qualified, with between 8-12 years' PQE;
- qualified into the commercial, media & technology or advertising division of a leading private practice law firm. Experience of supporting digital platforms is a plus;
- have strong commercial acumen across a range of digital advertising matters, and be comfortable taking commercial decisions and working closely with senior business stakeholders, marketing and creative leads at a LatAm and global level;
- strong negotiating and drafting skills. You will be comfortable taking the lead in negotiations, such as sponsorships, production and creator engagement opportunities;
- worked collaboratively to develop new documentation, workflows and best practices and have experience of implementing legal processes and self serve resources which assist a business to scale at pace;
- experience of working in highly matrixed organisations and in an international business is a plus, as are language skills.
- Spanish professional proficiency is a strong 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.