Senior Lead Privacy Counsel (Regulatory) - Dublin, Brussels and Paris

Responsibilities

The Privacy Regulation and Governance team is part of the European Digital Regulation and Governance team with colleagues located in Dublin, Paris, Brussels and London. We are part of the Global Regulatory team that provides essential guidance to TikTok and its family of products, ensuring that our innovation is matched with compliance, responsibility, and foresight. We empower the business by navigating complex regulatory landscapes, shaping strategies that allow our teams to achieve their boldest ambitions while meeting evolving legal and policy expectations. The Regulatory team is responsible for managing global regulatory matters, including advising on new and existing frameworks, engaging with regulators, and ensuring proactive alignment with fast-changing laws across multiple jurisdictions.

We are looking for an experienced senior legal leader to join our European Privacy Regulation and Governance legal team. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a company that is enjoying hyper growth on a truly international scale and advise on cutting edge products and features.

Responsibilities
- Lead on strategy and execution of regulatory engagement and investigations regarding data protection matters.
- Support broader digital regulatory matters relating to Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act and other new and upcoming digital regulations in the EU and UK, with a focus on intersections with GDPR.
- Collaborating and communicating with internal and external partners regarding a wide range of regulatory privacy matters.
- Support our privacy governance programme, policies and procedures for TikTok in Europe.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Senior European or UK qualified lawyer with strong privacy, governance and regulatory experience, preferably with some in-house experience.
- Experience engaging with regulators, including data protection regulators preferable.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential and an ability to draft documents, including legal submissions.
- Highly organised, self motivated and capable of driving forward challenging projects.
- Comfortable providing sound advice under tight deadlines and managing competing priorities.