Senior Counsel, Go to Market

About the Team

The JV Legal and Compliance team provides key support for all TikTok USDS Joint Venture's innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms. We help our technology, business, and functional teams enable their vision by providing seamless, integrated legal and compliance guidance and support.

We are seeking a capable, solution oriented, business-savvy Senior Counsel to join our legal team and oversee go to market launches of features and emerging business lines. You will act as a core legal partner across a very diverse set of business lines, ranging from consumer-facing user generated content platforms to immersive AR/VR hardware to enterprise software and productivity applications. This role is much more than traditional product counseling; you will be expected to manage and handle a first legal line of defense for all business inquiries, identify risk, and develop appropriate mitigation strategies on compressed timeframes. You will help build and scale our legal infrastructure, serve as a strategic partner to business leaders across all departments, and manage a broad range of legal matters. You will deeply understand TikTok USDS Joint Venture's strategic goals and act as a true business enabler, driving cross-functional collaboration, leading executive-level escalations and building highly efficient and scalable processes, all while balancing business objectives against complying with national security and other legal and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a direct legal advisor to senior management, including the General Counsel, on a variety of legal matters, ranging from product launches to coordinating cross-functionally to build corporate structures, to providing input on regulatory and litigation matters.
• Serve as the day to day support for cross-functional technology, business, and functional teams, including Tech & Product, monetization and sales, e-commerce, and a variety of emerging businesses and technologies
• Contribute to drafting terms, disclosures, agreements, policies, guidelines and materials related to go to market strategy
• Proactively identify legal risks, assess business impact, and provide clear, solution-oriented guidance or escalations that enable company growth while protecting compliance interests
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams like Public Policy, and Communications on business-related issues and questions

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school with active U.S. state bar membership in good standing.
• 15+ years of legal experience (preferably in early-stage startups) handling first-impression issues and building scalable, repeatable processes in fast-paced environments.
• Deep generalist expertise covering AI/emerging technologies, product counseling, commercial contracts, corporate governance, employment law basics, IP, and vendor risk management.
• Proactive, adaptable self-starter comfortable executing directly without extensive administrative/legal backstops while remaining eager to build operational systems.
• Exceptional communicator and trusted advisor with high integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to clearly brief executive teams, engineers, and government auditors alike.
• Highly organized multi-tasker with proven relationship-building skills to influence, collaborate, and independently prioritize competing demands.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience navigating national security matters with U.S. government agencies (e.g., DOJ, DoD, CFIUS) or within a premier national security/defense practice group.