TikTok

E-Commerce Privacy Counsel

TikTok$165K — $281K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
  • Extensive experience in privacy-related legal matters
  • Deep understanding of U.S. and state privacy laws, along with relevant regulatory trends
  • Experience advising multinational companies on various privacy issues
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to simplify legal concepts for team members
  • Preferred: Legal experience in both private practice and in-house settings
  • Preferred: CIPP or similar privacy certification and familiarity with AMS regional privacy laws

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and analyze global privacy laws and advise stakeholders
  • Review new e-commerce products and features for legal compliance
  • Advise on privacy issues related to data collection and use
  • Assess third-party data sharing arrangements and contractual provisions
  • Support compliance assessments and implement privacy controls
  • Drive global privacy strategy in coordination with counsel across jurisdictions
  • Develop global privacy policies and guidelines for e-commerce

Benefits

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

About the Team: The Global E-Commerce Privacy team handles and oversees legal privacy and regulatory matters pertaining to TikTok's global e-commerce operations. The team works cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders around the world to tackle some of the most complex, interesting, and cutting-edge issues in privacy and security. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced, and bright legal professional to join our exciting team. This is a highly collaborative, on-site role that requires five days per week in the office. Responsibilities: - Actively monitor, analyze, and advise colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders on global privacy and data protection laws, regulatory developments, and enforcement trends relevant to TikTok's e-commerce business. - Review new products, product features, and initiatives impacting the e-commerce business to identify relevant legal and regulatory requirements and guide compliance with privacy and data protection laws and TikTok policies. - Advise on e-commerce-related privacy issues, including the collection, use, sharing, retention, and cross-border transfer of creator, merchant, buyer, logistics, payments, communications, and sensitive data. - Assess and advise on third-party and intra-group data sharing arrangements, including vendor onboarding, data processing terms, cross-border transfer requirements, and other privacy-related contractual provisions. - Support compliance assessments, privacy impact reviews, and implementation of controls relating to new products, data uses, and operational processes. - Drive global privacy strategy for the e-commerce business, while coordinating with global and local counsel on multi-jurisdictional issues and consistent implementation across markets. - Support the development of internal and external global privacy policies, notices, standards, guidelines, and governance processes relevant to the e-commerce business. - Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of privacy policies and controls across the e-commerce business.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar - Extensive years of privacy-related legal experience - In-depth knowledge of U.S. privacy and data protection laws, including U.S. state privacy laws, federal privacy and consumer protection frameworks, and relevant regulatory guidance and enforcement trends. - Experience advising multinational businesses on a broad range of privacy matters, including data collection and use, cross-border transfers, product and feature counseling, merchant, creator and customer data, payments, logistics, communications, vendor relationships, and sensitive data - Strong communication, interpersonal skills, and sound judgment, and the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical advice for business and product teams Preferred Qualifications: - Legal experience gained in both private practice and an in-house role at a multinational business. - CIPP or similar privacy certification in one or more jurisdictions. - Experience advising on global privacy laws, regulations, and related compliance requirements. - Familiarity with privacy and data protection laws across the broader AMS region, including Brazil's LGPD, Mexico's private-sector data protection law, and related regulatory guidance.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $165300 - $281010 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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