Responsibilities
About the Team:
Creator Networks are the driving force behind content supply on TikTok LIVE. They identify, support, and cultivate LIVE talent, playing a critical role in the platform's growth and success. We are looking for a skilled and strategic Product & Commercial Counsel to support our global Creator Network initiatives. This role will primarily focus on Creator Networks but will also contribute to other product-related matters within the broader team.
The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with our global product legal team and regional commercial legal teams that manage day-to-day relationships with Creator Networks. This person will develop a deep understanding of the LIVE business-its goals, priorities, and workflows-and provide cross-functional legal support to help ensure Creator Network products and operations scale safely, efficiently, and compliantly.
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Responsibilities:
-Provide legal guidance to product teams on the application of relevant laws and regulations to a regulated content platform
-Review and advise on new products, features, and initiatives, offering risk mitigation strategies across TikTok and associated consumer apps
-Draft and update online terms related to product initiatives, collaborating with operations teams to align policies and processes with those terms
-Work closely with legal counterparts globally to deliver practical legal guidance, risk assessments, and external communications advice across areas including employment, privacy, payments, marketing, communications, and online safety
-Act as a senior legal advisor and strategic partner to the Creator Network product team
-Track and interpret emerging legislation impacting content platforms, providing timely insights and training to relevant stakeholders
-Navigate complex legal, operational, and business challenges in a fast-paced environment, delivering actionable advice under tight timelines
-Communicate clearly and effectively, translating complex legal concepts for business stakeholders and coordinating with internal legal and cross-functional teams
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Qualified lawyer with experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal team within a global company
- Strong background in consumer technology and commercial law, particularly in product launches
- Solid understanding of legal frameworks impacting user activity on content platforms like TikTok
- Familiarity with laws relating to privacy, payments, electronic communications, employment, online safety, marketing, promotions, and incentive-based programs
- Demonstrated passion for platform technology and a clear understanding of how it intersects with law and public policy
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven ability to evaluate legal, practical, and business risks in a fast-moving environment and provide clear, actionable guidance under tight deadlines
- Strong communicator with the ability to distill complex legal concepts for business stakeholders and collaborate effectively with internal legal and cross-functional teams
- Track record of working collaboratively to align stakeholders quickly and driving matters to resolution with minimal oversight
- Proactive, professional, and solutions-oriented approach to stakeholder engagement and problem-solving
- Naturally curious and strategic thinker who anticipates challenges and offers thoughtful, forward-looking legal solutions
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $202350 - $357390 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.