Head of Regulatory

Responsibilities
Our Regulatory team provides essential guidance to TikTok and its family of products, ensuring that our innovation is matched with compliance, responsibility, and foresight. We empower the business by navigating complex regulatory landscapes, shaping strategies that allow our teams to achieve their boldest ambitions while meeting evolving legal and policy expectations. The Regulatory team is responsible for managing global regulatory matters, including advising on new and existing frameworks, engaging with regulators, and ensuring proactive alignment with fast-changing laws across multiple jurisdictions.

We are seeking an exceptional regulatory lawyer to serve as Head of Regulatory, leading a high-performing global team responsible for some of the most complex and high-profile regulatory issues facing the company. This role offers the opportunity to shape and drive TikTok’s regulatory legal strategy, partnering closely with cross-functional leaders to manage risk, ensure compliance, and advance responsible innovation in a dynamic and highly scrutinized environment. It is a key leadership position, reporting directly to the General Counsel, and it sits at the forefront of defining how one of the most influential tech companies operates within global regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities
- Develop and lead TikTok’s global regulatory legal strategy, aligning legal guidance with business objectives and evolving regulatory requirements.
- Advise senior executives and business leaders on high-stakes regulatory issues, providing clear, actionable, and risk-aware guidance.
- Build and manage a global team of regulatory lawyers, fostering collaboration, professional growth, and operational excellence.
- Oversee engagement with regulators and government agencies, ensuring TikTok’s positions are effectively communicated and aligned with legal obligations.
- Monitor, assess, and anticipate emerging laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions, translating complex requirements into practical business strategies.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (including Public Policy, Compliance, Trust & Safety, and Product teams) to ensure proactive and coordinated approaches to regulatory matters.
- Lead legal input into regulatory investigations, inquiries, and examinations, balancing compliance with business priorities.
- Drive the development of scalable processes, policies, and training to ensure consistent and efficient regulatory compliance.
- Serve as a thought leader within the Legal organization, helping to shape TikTok’s overall approach to operating responsibly in a complex global environment.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABA-accredited law school with a strong academic record
- Deep knowledge of global regulatory frameworks, including: Data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), AI regulation (e.g., EU AI Act, U.S. Executive Order on AI), Competition/antitrust law, Platform liability and content moderation laws (e.g., DSA, Section 230)
- Experience engaging with government regulators, lawmakers, and industry bodies.
- Strong ability to align regulatory compliance with business strategy and skilled at identifying and mitigating regulatory risk across markets.
- Skilled in managing regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and high-stakes crises.
- Successful in driving cross-functional adoption of new policies or compliance requirements.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Technical literacy in AI systems (e.g., ML models, generative AI, algorithmic decision-making).
- Proven ability to embed regulatory readiness into product development, go-to-market, and operations processes.

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 $242000 - $624000 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:
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:
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; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.