Information Security & Incident Response Counsel

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About the Team:
Our Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs team provides key support for all of TikTok's 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 guidance and compliance support for global privacy and regulatory affairs matters including information security and data privacy. The TikTok team is growing fast and is seeking highly experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join the team. One of the critical challenges is the need for our team to provide exceptional support for information security matters involving TikTok. The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the global legal response to cybersecurity incidents by coordinating with cross-functional teams, including regional legal teams, IT, compliance, and external stakeholders, to ensure a consistent and effective approach across jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with regional counsel in all operational jurisdictions to provide jurisdiction-specific legal advice, ensuring compliance with data breach notification laws, regulatory requirements, and industry standards globally.
• Develop and oversee incident response strategies by counseling internal stakeholders on legal implications, risk mitigation, and regulatory considerations throughout the incident lifecycle, including investigation, containment, and remediation.
• Draft, review, and coordinate regulatory and user notifications in alignment with applicable legal requirements, ensuring accurate and timely communication to impacted parties and regulators.
• Coordinate comprehensive post-incident reports and lead after-action reviews to identify legal and operational gaps, implement lessons learned, and continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks.
• Design and maintain incident response playbooks tailored to legal and regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions, ensuring teams are equipped to handle incidents effectively.
• Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and simulations to test and refine the organization's incident response readiness, providing legal insights to strengthen protocols and mitigate risks.
• Provide proactive legal counsel to cross-functional teams on cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies, including contract reviews, vendor management, and policy development to reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents.
• Monitor evolving global cybersecurity and privacy regulations to ensure incident response practices remain compliant and align with industry best practices.
• Develop and deliver training for internal teams to promote awareness of legal requirements, privilege considerations, and best practices in incident response and cybersecurity risk management.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree plus a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school and substantial experience with information security and incident response legal issues.
• Extensive combined experience should include law firm and/or in-house counseling at an enterprise technology or leading consumer-facing digital application, ideally including user-generated content.
• Substantial experience with data governance, information security and incident response legal issues within a technology company. Background in data privacy preferred.
• Extensive experience working with international teams in various time zones in a cross-functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills in a cross-functional and global role.
• Comfortable with technology and distributed architecture a plus.

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 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $180500 - $303240 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.