TikTok

Senior AI Legal Counsel

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

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state.
  • Strong knowledge of legal challenges in frontier AI risk areas (CBRN, cyber, IP, privacy, bias).
  • Proven experience in AI and ML, IP, and cyber security with both private and in-house roles preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in shaping policy outcomes or launching novel technologies.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous legal issues with high ethical standards and a positive attitude.
  • A builder's bias for action with a track record of achieving alignment across teams and partners.
  • Credibility with both engineers and policymakers, capable of technical discussions and regulatory briefings.

Responsibilities

  • Champion AI as a global subject matter expert, resolving legal issues in frontier AI risks.
  • Craft and implement market-leading legal strategies for AI businesses that create new opportunities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address compliance issues for frontier AI models.
  • Identify and communicate evolving global AI regulatory requirements to support product implementations.
  • Guide the team in establishing policies, standards, and best practices for AI risk management.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and disability coverage.
  • 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 AI Product and Frontier Risk Counseling team provides domain-expert legal support to the company's AI products and models, in particular supporting our Seed business. The team is growing fast and as we scale, we're looking for a seasoned lawyer to serve as a global legal expert and strategist who can pair deep policy expertise with a builder's mindset as they help to guide our teams to turn cutting-edge ideas into trusted, world-class products. The role will be an integral resource for our AI product and business teams by helping to craft strategic, market-facing narratives for our AI businesses that unlock new opportunities while also helping to solve some of the most challenging AI issues globally, including implementing policies, standards and best practices relating to frontier AI risk domains. This is a highly collaborative, on-site role that requires five days per week in the office located in San Jose, CA. Responsibilities: - You will champion AI, working as a global subject matter expert helping to identify and resolve legal issues relating to emerging and frontier AI risks. You will also help craft strategic, market-leading legal strategies for our AI businesses that unlock new opportunities. - Collaborate with the AI product, TnS, Legal, AI Safety, PR and GR teams to establish and implement solutions to emerging compliance issues for frontier AI models. - Identify, assess, and communicate the rapidly evolving global AI regulatory requirements and trends; support implementations by the product team.

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. - Have a strong knowledge and interest in the legal challenges in frontier and emerging AI risk areas, including CBRN, cyber and loss of control as well as areas including IP, privacy, bias and AI transparency. - Proven experience counseling on AI and ML, IP and cyber security. Experience in both private practice and in-house experience at a technology platform company would be advantageous. - Demonstrated success shaping policy outcomes or market launches for novel technologies. - Possess the highest standard of ethics and a positive attitude in learning and willing to pick up new knowledge and skills; comfortable navigating through ambiguous legal issues - A builder's bias for action, you can turn ambiguity into frameworks, experiments, and shipped products and have a strong track record of achieving alignment with internal cross-functional teams and external partners. - Credibility with engineers and policymakers alike: you can dive into model architectures one minute and brief a regulator the next. Preferred Qualifications: - Willingness to be flexible to attend meetings outside of office hours, due to the global nature of this team

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.

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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