Job Description
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Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- You will be a principal point of contact on the Global Music Legal team for various internal stakeholders, including Product and AI research teams, which are responsible for AI-related initiatives. You will work collaboratively with members of the Global Music Legal, Global Legal-IP-Copyright and Global Legal-AI teams to assess potential music rights issues and other risk implications of AI-related initiatives, and provide risk mitigation guidance and recommendations.
- You will liaise with internal legal subject matter expert teams, and external counsel, as needed.
- You will work with cross-functional partners on the Music Content Solutions, Public Policy and Product Policy teams to administer AI-music related platform policies and compliance with contractual and other legal obligations.
- You will be responsible for monitoring and informing your colleagues on the Global Music Legal team and internal stakeholders, including Product and Business Development teams, of legal developments and trends in the rapidly evolving AI music space, including state and federal legislation in the U.S. and regulations and lawsuits globally.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree plus a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school and member in good standing of a U.S. state bar with experience in private law practice or in-house, providing product counseling for a technology company or application
- Subject matter expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning practices and underlying technology
- Excellent English language written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently on many different projects at once in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Experience working collaboratively and cross-functionally with international teams, with tight turn-around times and deadlines
- Entrepreneurial, business-enabling, risk-tolerant mindset, flexible, self-starting, hard-working, with a willingness to work across multiple time zones, outside of normal business hours in your home territory
- Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, creative, risk-based approach to problem-solving, comfortable dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity
Preferred Qualifications:
- Fluency in Mandarin Chinese language due to working closely with the music business in China
- Experience leveraging operational teams and technologies to drive process implementations and improvements
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are 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 enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, 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. 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
ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance 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
Job Information
For Pay TransparencyCompensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $140000 - $319200 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidates 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.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Legal Industries
Technology, Information and Media
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