TikTok

Data Privacy Counsel

TikTok$174K — $295K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • J.D. or equivalent law degree, qualified to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
  • 5+ years post-qualification experience, with 3+ years in data privacy or governance
  • Strong knowledge of global privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, legal)
  • Ability to translate legal requirements into practical processes
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Capacity to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Responsibilities

  • Support and lead components of the company's global privacy program
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to advise on privacy-related processes
  • Analyze legal developments and translate them into actionable plans
  • Advise on privacy-by-design processes across the organization
  • Identify themes and develop consistent legal guidance for global application
  • Collaborate with legal teams on risk management strategies
  • Review engineering specifications for compliance with privacy regulations

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team: The Data Governance & Privacy Programs Legal team plays a central role in helping the company build and scale sustainable, legally compliant privacy and data governance frameworks across global markets. We partner closely with operational, engineering, product, and legal stakeholders across the organization to develop practical solutions that support innovation while protecting user and company data. This team operates at the intersection of law, program design, and operational execution. We help translate evolving legal and regulatory requirements into scalable processes, standards, and governance structures that can be implemented across products, functions, and regions. As the company and regulatory landscape continue to evolve, we are looking for strong, thoughtful, and adaptable team members who can help drive global privacy program initiatives in a fast-moving environment. Responsibilities: - Support and help lead key components of the company's global privacy and data governance program, including the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of scalable legal and operational frameworks. - Partner closely with privacy operations, engineering, security, product, and other cross-functional teams to review and advise on new and existing processes, operational models, and technical specifications with privacy and data governance implications. - Analyze new laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry developments, and help translate them into practical program requirements, internal guidance, and scalable implementation plans. - Advise on the development and rollout of privacy-by-design and governance-related processes across the organization. - Identify recurring issues, common denominators, and thematic risks across products, functions, and regions, and develop consistent legal guidance, frameworks, and solutions that can be applied globally. - Work closely with other legal teams to align on legal interpretations, implementation approaches, and risk management strategies across jurisdictions. - Review and advise on engineering specifications, operational workflows, and governance proposals related to privacy, data handling, data access, sharing, retention, and related compliance issues. - Help develop, maintain, and refine internal policies, standards, templates, playbooks, and training materials to support global privacy compliance and operational consistency.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - J.D. or equivalent law degree, and qualification to practice law in at least one jurisdiction. - 5+ years of post-qualification experience, including at least 3 years of meaningful experience in data privacy, data protection, data governance, technology regulatory work, or a closely related area. - Strong understanding of major global privacy and data protection laws and frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, and other key international regimes. - Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, including operational, engineering, product, security, and regional legal teams. - Ability to assess legal requirements and translate them into practical, scalable processes, controls, and operational guidance. - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with sound legal judgment and a proactive, execution-oriented approach. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage ambiguity, and handle challenging issues with professionalism. Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting or leading privacy program, governance, or operational implementation work at a major multinational company, or advising multinational clients on such matters. - Experience designing or improving scalable legal and operational frameworks for privacy, data governance, or related compliance areas. - Experience reviewing and advising on engineering specifications, operational workflows, or governance proposals involving privacy, data handling, access, sharing, or retention issues. - Experience developing, maintaining, or refining internal policies, standards, templates, playbooks, and training materials. - Experience working in a multinational, highly matrixed, or fast-moving technology company environment. - Experience partnering across legal, operational, and technical teams to support global privacy compliance and implementation.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $174000 - $295800 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.
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Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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