TikTok

Senior Employment Litigation Counsel

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school; state bar membership required.
  • Extensive employment law experience in both private practice and corporate settings.
  • Proficient in managing employment litigation through all judicial stages, including trials.
  • Skilled in conducting high-level investigations into workplace complaints.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively.
  • Excellent legal writing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage all facets of employment disputes and develop defense strategies.
  • Conduct thorough investigations of complex employment matters with investigative teams.
  • Provide legal compliance guidance on employment law issues.
  • Build and manage internal processes to handle litigation effectively.
  • Analyze litigation trends and share insights cross-functionally.
  • Create and lead training on global employment law topics as needed.

Benefits

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

About the Team: Our Global Legal team provides key support for all TikTok's innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global video market. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated legal guidance and support. The TikTok team is growing fast and is seeking highly experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join the team. The Global Employment Law team provides strategic and practical legal advice to Human Resources and business stakeholders globally, and handles employment litigation matters involving TikTok in all the regions in which TikTok operates. This role is for an experienced employment lawyer with expertise in managing HR investigations, employment law disputes and litigation matters and will report to our Head of Global Employment Litigation. The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role. Responsibilities: - Manage all aspects of employment disputes, including risk assessment and development of litigation defense strategies, effective management of external legal counsel, working cross-functionally to manage e-discovery issues, fact-finding and analysis, witness preparation, depositions, case management conferences, motion practice, and arbitration or trial preparation and presentation. - Work with investigative teams to ensure thorough, complete, and privileged investigations of employment-related matters, and provide employment law advice and guidance. Conduct investigations of certain complex or high-level employment matters. - Serve as a strong contributor on legal compliance matters relating to employment law issues. - Help to build and manage internal processes and policies to efficiently and effectively manage our growing litigation caseload. - Help to analyze litigation trends and work cross functionally to share key litigation insights and learnings. - Work cross-functionally to create, lead, or support training on global employment law issues, as needed.

Qualifications

Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with membership in good standing with a state bar. - Significant employment law experience in private practice with a highly regarded firm and a corporate legal department, with a focus on advising on investigations and managing employment disputes and litigation matters. - Experience handling employment litigation matters in multiple jurisdictions, through all stages of litigation, including trial, retaining and managing outside counsel to ensure that all aspects of the company's legal representation are of the highest quality, and representing multi-national companies involved in complex disputes with outstanding outcomes. - Experience conducting investigations into workplace complaints of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, interviewing witnesses, analyzing documents and other evidence, assessing credibility and making findings. - Demonstrated judgment, personal integrity, and interpersonal skills. Strong ability to work as a team player who can effectively collaborate with colleagues from the Global Legal team and business stakeholders. - Excellent communication skills, including exceptional legal writing skills and the ability to craft persuasive and concise briefs. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience taking matters through trial or binding arbitration a plus.

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
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Founded
2012

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