Senior Employment Litigation Counsel

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 a senior level employment lawyer with expertise in managing employment law disputes and litigation matters and will report to our Head of 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.

- 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.

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