Legal Counsel - Data Infrastructure

TikTok; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 145,920 - 272,916; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays and sick days

Job summary

A leading tech company in Los Angeles is seeking a proactive lawyer to join its Data Infrastructure Legal team. This role involves negotiating contracts for data centers and providing legal advice on compliance and infrastructure projects. Ideal candidates will have a Juris Doctorate, active bar membership, and experience in complex infrastructure environments. The successful candidate will contribute to a dynamic legal team focused on supporting the company's rapid growth and global initiatives. Excellent engagement and project management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
• Outstanding stakeholder fluency and engagement.
• Ability to bridge global cultural and skillset differences.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate all contractual documentation for data centers.
• Support projects related to utility interconnection and renewables.
• Engage with stakeholders to advocate for company's interests.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Legal judgment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Juris Doctorate

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team

This role will be in our Data Infrastructure Legal team. This is a global team with colleagues currently based in LA, London, Dublin, Sydney, Beijing and São Paulo. The team provides vital support for ByteDance’s global digital infrastructure expansion outside of China (including for TikTok and our enterprise products businesses). We provide integrated and commercially-driven legal advice to a company that is continuing to see rapid and sustained growth. We are focused on ensuring that our global infrastructure projects (including data center development) receive exceptional legal advice and support.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, resilient, and business-minded lawyer with experience in advising on complex infrastructure projects, preferably with direct exposure to data centre development, construction and operations. We are also open to candidates from adjacent sectors such as energy, utilities, or large-scale network or edge infrastructure, where experience has been gained in similarly capital intensive, highly regulated and technically complex projects. It is important that you have strong infrastructure project experience, sound legal and commercial judgement, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving and dynamic environment.

• Negotiate all contractual documentation for the establishment and delivery of long‑term data centers, including with major data center developers.
• Support on a range of projects including in relation to power purchase, utility interconnection and renewables.
• Negotiate a range of commercial and technology contracts, including software licenses, SaaS agreements, development contracts, consultancy, outsourcing and other service provision agreements, and cloud-based service model agreements.
• Advise on laws and regulations relating to digital infrastructure and help drive the development and roll‑out of standard policies and template agreements to improve efficiency and risk management.
• Distill complex information in order to deliver clear, precise and pragmatic advice to business and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Engage with a range of stakeholders (including our public policy team) to advocate and represent the company's interests in relation to digital infrastructure development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) with active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
• Outstanding stakeholder fluency and engagement.
• Exceptional team spirit, an open mind, and a willingness to take the initiative on a wide range of projects.
• The ability to bridge global cultural and skillset differences through expertise, insight, collaboration and strong project management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Adaptable and comfortable in operating and managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving, high growth environment.
• An ability to offer commercially viable alternatives as part of risk management.
• Experience in developing new documentation and best practices and implementing legal processes in a fast-paced international environment which enables the business to scale.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short‑form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an “Always Day 1” mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Accommodation

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://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145,920 - $272,916 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 (pro‑rated 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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• Exercising sound judgment.