Music Counsel

TikTok

New York, NY

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.

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Position summary

TikTok is looking for a dynamic and energetic transactional attorney, with experience drafting and negotiating digital music licenses and other music rights-related agreements, to join its fast-growing team of music lawyers in the United States. The role will support TikTok’s Business Development teams’ efforts to execute TikTok’s music licensing strategy - and scale music license coverage for - TikTok, the world’s leading short video platform, the digital music streaming service Resso, the SoundOn direct digital distribution platform and other TikTok-owned digital properties which feature music. - You will draft, negotiate and provide guidance regarding license agreements with independent artists, record label distribution partnerships and artist / record label services agreements for SoundOn. - You will work cross-functionally with TikTok’s Ad Sales, Monetization, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Artist and Label Relations, User Growth and other teams to clear rights for marketing, promotion and music performance streaming events, including synchronization agreements for sound recordings and musical compositions and artist performance agreements. - You will draft and negotiate blanket / full catalog license agreements with record labels, aggregators, music publishers and collecting societies in the US and Latin America, for TikTok and Resso. - You will work cross-functionally with key internal stakeholders and provide legal guidance concerning potential music rights implications of various new product and service initiatives of TikTok. TikTok is looking for a dynamic and energetic transactional attorney, with experience drafting and negotiating digital music licenses and other music rights-related agreements, to join its fast-growing team of music lawyers in the United States. The role will support TikTok’s Business Development teams’ efforts to execute TikTok’s music licensing strategy - and scale music license coverage for - TikTok, the world’s leading short video platform, the digital music streaming service Resso, the SoundOn direct digital distribution platform and other TikTok-owned digital properties which feature music. - You will draft, negotiate and provide guidance regarding license agreements with independent artists, record label distribution partnerships and artist / record label services agreements for SoundOn. - You will work cross-functionally with TikTok’s Ad Sales, Monetization, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Artist and Label Relations, User Growth and other teams to clear rights for marketing, promotion and music performance streaming events, including synchronization agreements for sound recordings and musical compositions and artist performance agreements. - You will draft and negotiate blanket / full catalog license agreements with record labels, aggregators, music publishers and collecting societies in the US and Latin America, for TikTok and Resso. - You will work cross-functionally with key internal stakeholders and provide legal guidance concerning potential music rights implications of various new product and service initiatives of TikTok.

What are TikTok perks and benefits

Lactation facilities

Fertility

Unconscious bias training

Networking

Succession planning

Diversity recruiting

Diversity performance

Short term disability

Paid paternity

Paid maternity

Paid adoptive

About the company

TikTok

Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

As the leading destination for short-form mobile video, our platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community. In a world that feels more divided than ever, we are here to inspire creativity and bring joy. We do this by embracing change, thriving in ambiguity, and always looking for solutions.

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.