Senior Employment Litigation Counsel

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok seeks an experienced employment lawyer to join the Global Employment Litigation team. You will manage employment disputes, oversee external counsel, and guide investigations while advising HR and business stakeholders globally.

This role focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional matters and requires strong writing and cross-functional collaboration. The position emphasizes handling litigation across regions, ensuring compliance, and contributing to training and policy development within a

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from ABA-accredited school and active state bar.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of employment disputes, including defense strategies and managing outside counsel.
• Coordinate thorough investigations of employment-related matters with investigative teams.
• Contribute to legal compliance on employment issues.
• Build and manage internal processes to handle growing litigation caseload.
• Analyze litigation trends and share insights across functions.
• Lead or support training on global employment law issues.

Skills

Employment litigation

HR investigations

Cross-border disputes

Legal writing

Oral advocacy

Collaboration

Education

Juris Doctorate

ABA-accredited law school

Bar admission

Job description

About the Team:

Our Global Legal team provides key support for all 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 legal guidance and support. The TikTok team is growing fast and is seeking highly experienced, bright and capable legal professionals to join the team. The Global Employment Law team provides strategic and practical legal advice to Human Resources and business stakeholders globally, and handles employment litigation matters involving TikTok in all the regions in which TikTok operates. This role is for an experienced employment lawyer with expertise in managing HR investigations, employment law disputes and litigation matters and will report to our Head of Global Employment Litigation.The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of employment disputes, including risk assessment and development of litigation defense strategies, effective management of external legal counsel, working cross-functionally to manage e-discovery issues, fact-finding and analysis, witness preparation, depositions, case management conferences, motion practice, and arbitration or trial preparation and presentation.


• Work with investigative teams to ensure thorough, complete, and privileged investigations of employment-related matters, and provide employment law advice and guidance. Conduct investigations of certain complex or high-level employment matters.


• Serve as a strong contributor on legal compliance matters relating to employment law issues.


• Help to build and manage internal processes and policies to efficiently and effectively manage our growing litigation caseload.


• Help to analyze litigation trends and work cross functionally to share key litigation insights and learnings.


• Work cross-functionally to create, lead, or support training on global employment law issues, as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with membership in good standing with a state bar.


• Significant employment law experience in private practice with a highly regarded firm and a corporate legal department, with a focus on advising on investigations and managing employment disputes and litigation matters.


• Experience handling employment litigation matters in multiple jurisdictions, through all stages of litigation, including trial, retaining and managing outside counsel to ensure that all aspects of the company's legal representation are of the highest quality, and representing multi-national companies involved in complex disputes with outstanding outcomes.


• Experience conducting investigations into workplace complaints of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, interviewing witnesses, analyzing documents and other evidence, assessing credibility and making findings.


• Demonstrated judgment, personal integrity, and interpersonal skills. Strong ability to work as a team player who can effectively collaborate with colleagues from the Global Legal team and business stakeholders.


• Excellent communication skills, including exceptional legal writing skills and the ability to craft persuasive and concise briefs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience taking matters through trial or binding arbitration a plus.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $174000 - $295800 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:

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;


3. Exercising sound judgment.

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

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