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TikTok

Global EDiscovery Lead - Global Litigation

New York$210,600 – $520,800Posted yesterday

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Responsibilities

The Global Litigation team defends the company in legal disputes around the world, including employment matters, regional litigation across global markets, intellectual property disputes, and the e-discovery and case management work behind the company's response to lawsuits, investigations, and regulatory demands. Within that, the Employment Legal team partners closely with HR and business leaders to advise on employment law risk and help execute on key people and business priorities.

The work is high-volume, high-stakes, and global. We manage caseloads across very different legal systems and litigation cultures, and work closely with outside counsel, product teams, HR, engineering, and the business to protect the company while turning legal and case trends into practical risk guidance.

You will work on some of the company's most consequential matters at the intersection of law, technology, and global business, helping build the strategy, processes, advice, and defenses that enable the company to operate and grow around the world.

Our Global Legal team provides key support for all TikTok 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.

As a subject matter expert team in the Global Legal department, the Global eDiscovery team handles eDiscovery for litigation and regulatory matters involving TikTok in all the regions in which TikTok operates. The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role.

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented eDiscovery expert to join our team. This is a key supporting position that will help drive effective discovery strategy and execution across a variety of legal matters. This role will sit in the Global Litigation team and lead our eDiscovery function.

Responsibilities:
- Own and lead the company's global eDiscovery strategy, operations, and technology across all litigation, regulatory, and investigation matters.
- Serve as the company's lead subject-matter expert for eDiscovery advising the Global Legal team and collaborating closely with outside counsel and internal business stakeholders on all eDiscovery-related matters. Act as the primary relationship owner for eDiscovery outside counsel, service providers, and vendors, driving performance, innovation, and cost control.
- Lead the global eDiscovery team by overseeing day-to-day operations, setting short-term and long-term goals to build scalable discovery practices globally, and ensure team member engagement in alignment with those goals.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve global eDiscovery standards, workflows, and playbooks to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability across all regions and matters. Oversee the full eDiscovery lifecycle (from preservation through external productions) to ensure defensibility and efficiency across all jurisdictions.
- Evaluate, implement, and optimize eDiscovery technologies and platforms, including advanced analytics and automation. Develop metrics, reporting, and forecasting to track performance, risk, and spend across the global discovery portfolio.
- Proactively identify opportunities to modernize and innovate the company's discovery program through process improvement and technology adoption.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with license to practice in either New York or California (or able to obtain in-house designation in such jurisdictions)
- Deep, specialized experience in eDiscovery in private practice at a highly regarded firm and/or corporate litigation and/or regulatory environments.
- Proven experience leading global teams of legal and eDiscovery professionals with extensive experience managing large-scale cross-border matters
- Extensive knowledge of the eDiscovery lifecycle, document review management, data privacy, and information governance.
- Strong knowledge of global regulatory obligations related to litigation, discovery, and information governance.
- Strong technical fluency with enterprise discovery platforms and workflows (including, but not limited to, Relativity and Nuix platforms).
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams globally including Engineering, Security and Information Governance, and Global Legal teams.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Undergraduate or graduate background in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical field.
- Certifications or advanced training in eDiscovery, legal technology, and/or data management.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210600 - $520800 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.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with license to practice in either New York or California (or able to obtain in-house designation in such jurisdictions)
- Deep, specialized experience in eDiscovery in private practice at a highly regarded firm and/or corporate litigation and/or regulatory environments.
- Proven experience leading global teams of legal and eDiscovery professionals with extensive experience managing large-scale cross-border matters
- Extensive knowledge of the eDiscovery lifecycle, document review management, data privacy, and information governance.
- Strong knowledge of global regulatory obligations related to litigation, discovery, and information governance.
- Strong technical fluency with enterprise discovery platforms and workflows (including, but not limited to, Relativity and Nuix platforms).
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams globally including Engineering, Security and Information Governance, and Global Legal teams.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Undergraduate or graduate background in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical field.
- Certifications or advanced training in eDiscovery, legal technology, and/or data management.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

Size: 5,001 - 10,000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming

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