Global Head of Legal, Global Payments

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 Global Payment business (referred to as PIPO) provides an important role in the monetization of Bytedance products, but is also in the heavily regulated industry of financial services that requires a specific expertise and attention to regulatory compliance requirements. The ideal candidate will have a good background in the global payments industry, as well as excellent judgment, acute ability to identify issues of first impression, and have the courage to counsel a fast-moving business. The following describes the responsibilities and requirements for the role.



Responsibilities:

- Serve as the lead legal business partner and counsel for the Global Payments organization leading a team of legal professionals across all payment matters globally

- Advise the Global Payment team on a range of issues including payments, regulatory, consumer protection, marketing, intellectual property, risk assessment/compliance and data privacy related to Bytedance payment activities worldwide with both businesses and consumers.

- Structure, draft and negotiate channel partner agreements with our payment partners

- Actively collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development on a range of issues related to product development and commercialization of global payment projects and services

- Work closely with colleagues across the global legal team to advise on payment issues in connection with the launch of projects or programs in the destination countries/regions.

- Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new payment features and products

- Stay up-to-date and serve as the subject matter expert of financial service regulations for ByteDance, including payments, money transmission, virtual currency, gifts, stored value card, KYC and KYB

- Participate as a proactive business partner for senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship