TikTok

Head of Global Security Legal

TikTok$210K — $500K+*
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with US State Bar membership.
  • Experience leading global legal teams in enterprise technology or consumer-facing applications.
  • Background in information security and incident response, preferably in a global tech environment.
  • Knowledge of data privacy, cyber risks, and remediation practices.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills in a global, cross-functional role.
  • Detail-oriented, able to multitask and navigate complex issues efficiently.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of legal professionals in the information security and incident response vertical.
  • Oversee legal support for incident response related to security, privacy, and other breaches.
  • Advise on the development and implementation of data protection and security policies.
  • Provide thought leadership on regulatory and litigation matters impacting the company.
  • Collaborate with security teams on data assurance, risk management, and compliance issues.
  • Review legal risk for products and initiatives in collaboration with global product teams.
  • Support procurement discussions focusing on information security aspects of contracts.

Benefits

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

The Global Security Legal team is seeking a highly experienced, bright and capable team leader. The team plays a central role in helping TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance build, scale, and operate information security governance frameworks across the globe. 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. The team's core functions include translating evolving legal and regulatory requirements into scalable processes, standards, and governance structures that can be implemented across products, functions, and regions; partnering cross-functionally to respond to privacy and security incidents and events; and developing strategies to mitigate emerging legal risks in the AI space. Responsibilities: - Manage a team of legal professionals within the information security, physical security, and incident response vertical on the Global Privacy and Security Legal team - Oversee and manage the day to day legal support for incident response, covering information security, privacy, safety, and other breaches and incidents - Advise on the development and implementation of information security and data protection policies and processes - Provide thought leadership on security-related regulatory and litigation matters that may impact the company - Collaborate with security teams on matters relating to data assurance, data protection, threat defense, risk management, and regulatory compliance - Work with legal and product teams globally to review products, features, new applications and initiatives to provide legal risk mitigation strategies and ensure legal compliance for products from an information security perspective - Provide support to procurement and commercial teams with respect to information security aspects of contract and relationship discussions with third parties - Coordinate with legal, information security, trust & safety, privacy & data protection, and other cross-functional colleagues on all matters related to information security and incident response, including communication, policy development, and enforcement aspects

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s): - Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) with membership in good standing in a US State Bar. - Extensive experience leading global teams of legal professionals and providing legal counsel in enterprise technology or leading consumer-facing digital applications. - Information security and incident response experience within a major global technology company; background in data privacy matters preferred. - Proven experience advising on cyber risks, remediation, cybersecurity standards, frameworks, risk assessments, and certification processes. - Extensive experience working with international teams in various time zones in a cross-functional environment. - Detail-oriented with strong drafting, documentation, presentation, and communication skills in a cross-functional and global role. - Highly motivated and proactive, with the ability to multitask, collaborate, understand complex technical issues, and produce results in an ever-changing legal and regulatory environment.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210600 - $520800 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
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Founded
2012

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