Global Senior Public Interest Law Counsel

Responsibilities

Our Global Legal Compliance (GLC) team provides key support for all of TikTok's innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global markets. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated legal compliance guidance and support.

We are looking for an experienced Global Senior Public Interest Law Counsel who will be the main legal counsel focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) legal and compliance matters, to join our Global Legal Compliance team. The ideal candidate will have direct experience advising on ESG and CSR legal and compliance matters, including advising on global sustainability regulations and reporting requirements, developing ESG governance frameworks, and supporting cross-functional sustainability and social impact initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. This position will advise and interact with the senior leadership team from the CSR and ESG space and play a strategic role in our company's CSR and ESG mission. This is a fast-paced environment, with the opportunity to work on challenging issues across global markets with cross-functional teams.

Core Responsibilities
- Provide senior-level strategic counsel to leadership and internal stakeholders on CSR partnerships, sustainability risks, and ESG value creation across major business lines.
- Lead global ESG compliance, reporting, and governance by monitoring evolving international regulations (UK, EU, etc.) and assessing their applicability to business operations.
- Manage and continuously enhance ESG/CSR policies, procedures, and controls to meet both regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
- Manage or advise legal and compliance reviews for business and human rights due diligence, actively mitigating supply chain risks such as modern slavery and forced labor.
- Serve as the legal representative on cross-functional ESG steering committees, and drive organizational awareness through targeted ESG/CSR training and communication plans.
- Lead the development and execution of compliance training and communications to increase ESG and CSR compliance awareness across global teams, including targeted training for senior leadership and business stakeholders.
- Support ad hoc request or compliance projects from the Global Legal Compliance team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Qualified to practice law in the US, UK, or another common law jurisdiction.
- Multiple years of relevant experience gained across private practice, in-house legal teams, and/or sustainability-focused regulatory bodies, with a proven track record leading ESG and CSR compliance programs.
- Deep expertise in key global ESG, business and human rights, and sustainability regulations, standards and frameworks including EU CSRD, CSDDD, UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements, and UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
- Proven ability to independently identify and evaluate legal, reputational and operational risk in complex global business contexts and provide well-informed, actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, including navigating senior leadership, internal stakeholders, and external partners in a complex global operating environment.
- Excellent legal and business judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority, cross-jurisdictional matters simultaneously.
- Desire to learn and apply emerging areas of sustainability law and willingness to adapt to evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in the technology or digital media industry is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working with ESG data platforms and possesses a data-driven mindset for advising compliance program design and monitoring.
- Experience advising on climate transition planning and scope 3 emissions management.
- Experience with training senior business stakeholders on complex ESG and sustainability topics.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210600 - $390400 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;