Tiktok - Los Angeles, CA

posted 26 days ago

Full-time - Senior
Los Angeles, CA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Senior E-Commerce Counsel, Product at TikTok plays a crucial role in providing legal support for TikTok Shop, focusing on e-commerce matters. This position involves collaborating with global legal and product teams to mitigate legal risks associated with new product launches and features. The role requires expertise in consumer protection, intellectual property, and compliance, while also managing a small team of lawyers to enhance internal processes and guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Work with legal and product teams globally to review products, features, and new initiatives to provide legal risk mitigation strategies when launching new products, features, and initiatives in the US.
  • Provide expert advice and guidance on a wide range of e-commerce matters with a focus on consumer protection, B2B and B2C engagement, pricing, payments, promotions, and intellectual property.
  • Partner closely with local and global stakeholders in legal, privacy, and public policy, to deliver projects against short timeframes, setting appropriate priorities and managing legal risk.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of TikTok e-commerce initiatives through review of the consumer disclosures, policies, and terms and conditions applicable to our users/customers/partners and support for feature development.
  • Manage a small team of lawyers and contribute to developing guidelines for the business, improving processes, internal training, and simplifying workflows.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree plus a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
  • Member in good standing of a state bar.
  • Extensive legal experience, including in-house experience preferably at a technology company.
  • Knowledge of US laws as it applies to platform providers and e-commerce platforms.
  • Experience in platform liability, intellectual property, consumer protection, regulatory and compliance schemes for new technology and e-commerce products.

Nice-to-haves

  • Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills in a cross-functional and global role.
  • Ability to work independently on many different projects at once in a fast-paced environment.
  • The ability to effectively interact with all levels of colleagues.
  • Self-starter with a willingness to learn, sense of humor, and positive attitude.
  • Prior experience related to product counseling for a marketplace platform is preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
  • Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
  • 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
  • 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.
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