TikTok

Commercial Counsel, NA

TikTok$134K — $235K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree plus Juris Doctorate from a top-tier ABA-accredited law school.
  • Member in good standing of the California or New York bar.
  • 5+ years of post-qualification experience, preferably in digital advertising.
  • Expertise in advertising laws, FTC Guidelines, and digital advertising standards.
  • Proven ability to manage fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
  • Experience in drafting and negotiating sales and vendor contracts.
  • Strong enthusiasm for media and technology.

Responsibilities

  • Handle matters related to advertising policies, data privacy, and regulatory issues.
  • Lead negotiations with key media buying clients and partners.
  • Draft and negotiate various agreements, including sales contracts and partnership agreements.
  • Streamline processes and improve efficiency within legal and sales functions.
  • Develop knowledge management tools like templates and playbooks.
  • Provide training for legal and sales teams on legal processes and standards.
  • Manage creative agreements including talent agreements and image releases.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage and life insurance.
  • Wellbeing benefits available.
  • Generous paid time off including 10 holidays, 10 sick days, and 17 personal days per year.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking lawyer to join our growing legal team supporting the Monetization and Sales business teams at TikTok. We are looking for a highly skilled commercial lawyer to join the Global Monetization Legal Team supporting our operations in North America. Our ideal candidate brings experience supporting sales, marketing and commercial legal functions. A successful candidate will thrive in an environment that asks to deliver at pace, juggle competing priorities, and work under short turnaround times for a business that is scaling fast. Responsibilities You will handle a wide range of matters related to TikTok's Monetization and Sales business, such as: - TikTok's advertising policies - Data/privacy issues - Regulatory issues - Streamlining and process improvement projects - Knowledge management, template/playbook development, process improvements and training (both within legal and the wider sales and marketing functions) Day-to-day, this role will lead negotiations and strategic engagement with key media buying clients and marketing partners. You will draft and negotiate a wide range of agreements, such as: - Sales contracts with media buying agencies and brands that use the TikTok platform - Trading and partnership agreements with media buying clients - Sponsorship agreements - Partnership and collaboration agreements - Service provider agreements and statements of work, including creative agency, production and event management agreements - Agreements governing creative assets provided by our in-house team, talent agreements and image releases This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a company that is enjoying hyper growth on a truly international scale.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree plus a Juris Doctorate from a top-tier ABA-accredited law school. - Member in good standing of the California or New York bar. - 5+ years of post-qualification experience, with digital advertising industry experience strongly preferred. - Knowledge of advertising laws and policies, including FTC Guidelines, data collection and use best practices, and other digital advertising industry standards. - Highly organized and able to navigate a fast-paced environment and be highly responsive to deadline-oriented clients. - Experience counseling business teams in the sales and marketing industries, leading the drafting and negotiation of sales and vendor contracts including MSA and SOWs. - Passion and intellectual curiosity for all things media and technology.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $134400 - $235600 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.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
Learn more about TikTok
Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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