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TikTok

Global Privacy Counsel, Regulatory Investigations

San Jose, CA, USA

10 Days ago

Job Overview


Posted Date: 20 September 2025

Job Function: Legal Services / Legal

Job Type: Full Time

Workplace Type: Not Specified

Experience Level: Not Specified

Salary: $140,000 - $240,000 / Annual Salary

Experience: 5 - 6 yrs

Job Description


Responsibilities

About the Team: The Global Privacy & Regulatory Affairs legal team manages and oversees privacy and regulatory matters and initiatives pertaining to TikTok's global operations. The team works cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders around the world. You will work in a fast-paced, challenging, and rewarding environment where your analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills will play an impactful role in tackling some of the most complex, interesting, and cutting-edge issues at the intersection of privacy and technology. We are seeking highly motivated professionals to join our team. Responsibilities: - Managing regulatory inquiries, investigations and enforcement actions related to privacy, data protection, and related topics in the US and globally. - Handling all phases of a regulatory matter, including fact gathering and development, document review, witness preparation, preparing narrative responses, and engaging with regulators. - Proactively developing strategies to address regulatory risk and strengthen the company's regulatory position, including working with cross-functional stakeholders to come up with effective, creative solutions. - Working collaboratively with litigation, public policy, communications, and other teams on data privacy issues and initiatives. - Advising on incident response notifications.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - US, EU, or UK qualified lawyer in good standing in their jurisdiction - 5+ years of regulatory experience - Significant in-house or law firm experience advising on privacy, data protection or other government investigations and regulatory matters - Experience engaging with regulators and data protection authorities - Ability to quickly learn, adapt, and work collaboratively - Strong verbal and written communication skills a must Preferred Qualifications: - Strong working knowledge of global privacy, data security and other related laws - Experience advising technology or social/entertainment platforms - Understanding of innovative technology and the technology product development process

Job Information

?For Pay Transparency?Compensation Description (Annually)


The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $140000 - $240000 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 the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us


Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect ? and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation


TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Practice Areas & Specialty

Government, Investigations, Litigation


Key skill Required

  • Data Security
  • Communication
  • Creativity
  • Data Protection
  • Development
  • Document Review
  • Embrace Challenges
  • Enforcement
  • Global Operations
  • History
  • Incident Response
  • Inclusive
  • Insurance
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Life Insurance
  • Litigation
  • Passionate
  • Product Development
  • Public Policy
  • Recruitment
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Security
  • Sound Judgment
  • Vision Insurance
  • Written Communication

Designation

  • Counsel

Company Details


Company Name: TikTok

Website: N/A

Recruiting People: HR Department

Contact Number: --

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