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The Team
We are seeking a Legal Counsel to join our Global Legal EMEA based in London. The Regional Commercial Legal Team support all commercial activity for TikTok, Lemon8 and CapCut, other than ecommerce.

The Role
Focus of the role will be to support TikTok's marketing, advertising sales, creative, and partnership teams across the region.
As part of a full service commercial team you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of matters from creative partnerships to music and marketing events to app distribution deals and more. You will work with internal stakeholders (both business and legal) at a global, regional and local level, both setting and implementing strategy and new commercial products and services from a legal perspective. You will thrive in an environment that asks you to deliver at pace, juggle competing priorities, support bespoke initiatives to increase advertiser engagement and develop monetisation opportunities and bring your experience and enthusiasm to respond to an ambitious business that is growing fast.

Responsibilities:
- negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements supporting multiple stakeholders across TikTok, including for media sales, incentives, brand partnerships, content productions, music and marketing events and sponsorships, app distribution and licensing deals.
- identifying opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures and develop and implement strategies to scale and standardise the use of legal resources, including creating new resources and playbooks;
- collaborating effectively with global, regional and local cross functional teams (including sales ops, finance, trading, product, partnerships, brand safety, data privacy and information security) to provide legal input on everything from strategy to client queries;
- acting as an escalation point for junior lawyers and contract managers as appropriate as well as helping people to develop their skills and fulfil their potential, including by organising and delivering training on key topics.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- UK qualified lawyer, ideally with 4-7 years' PQE;
- significant in-house experience in commercial, media & technology or advertising. Experience of supporting digital platforms is a plus;
- an understanding of advertising technology and a firm grasp of the privacy issues in this environment and a strong grounding in GDPR;
- strong commercial acumen and be comfortable taking commercial decisions and working closely with senior sales, marketing and creative leads at a country, European and global level;
- strong negotiating and drafting skills. You will be comfortable taking the lead in negotiations of media sales contracts, brand collaborations, sponsorships, partnerships, licensing and entertainment deals and creator/talent engagement opportunities;
- worked closely with sales and marketing teams of various levels of sophistication that are focused on monthly / quarterly targets;
- 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;

Preferred Qualifications
- experience of working in highly matrixed organisations and in an international business is a plus, as are language skills;
- experience of supporting digital platforms is 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.