Legal Counsel Full-time Job

Responsibilities:

You will join a team that is dedicated to delivering excellent stakeholder service to achieve pragmatic solutions for the business. In doing so you will:

- Provide advice and guidance on a wide range of operational, regulatory, commercial and product counselling ecommerce matters, with a focus on consumer protection, B2B and B2C engagement, product compliance, advertising, influencer marketing, and intellectual property.

- Support the business in understanding and complying with legal and regulatory requirements when launching and operating new products, features, and initiatives in KSA, UAE and the METAP region more broadly.

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of TikTok ecommerce initiatives through review of consumer and business facing disclosures, policies, and terms and conditions, and support for feature development.

- Review, draft, negotiate, and advise on: commercial agreements relevant to digital and ecommerce platforms and logistics and warehousing contracts.

- Contribute to template development, process improvement and internal training, identifying and resolving opportunities to simplify workflows and reduce contractual friction.

- Work closely with international stakeholders in legal, privacy, and public policy, to deliver projects against short timeframes, setting appropriate priorities and managing legal risk.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

- Strong academic background, with legal qualifications to practice law in the US, UK, or another METAP jurisdiction.

- 5+ years of practice advising e-commerce or retail companies.

- Experience working with cross-functional business stakeholders as in-house counsel in an international organisation, with e-commerce experience preferred.

- Knowledge of laws as they apply to the retail sector, advertising, and e-commerce platforms.

- Experience advising on logistics and warehousing contracts and licensing would be preferred.

- Knowledge of legal frameworks relevant to logistics and transport sectors would be an advantage.

- Experience advising on platform liability, intellectual property, consumer protection, regulatory and compliance schemes vis-a-vis new technology and e-commerce products and customer/third party agreements.

TikTok is the world's leading destination for short-form video. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Our employees lead with curiosity, and move at the speed of culture. Combined with our company's flat structure, you'll be given dynamic opportunities to make a real impact on a rapidly expanding company as you grow your career. We have offices across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, and the America and we're just getting started.