Privacy Counsel

Legal

Privacy Counsel (Payments & Financial Services), London

Location

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London

Employment Type

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Regular

Job Code

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A143858

Responsibilities

PIPO is ByteDance's Global Payments Business, playing a crucial role in the monetisation of ByteDance products, including TikTok, while operating in a highly regulated financial services environment. Given the complexity of the regulatory landscape, we require experienced legal professionals with deep expertise in payments, financial services regulation, and compliance.

We are seeking an experienced Privacy Counsel to be part of our Payments and Financial Services Legal BP team, to provide strategic product and commercial privacy legal advice and ensure compliance across PIPO's payments and financial services operations, especially in the Americas region, with focus in Latin America.

This role is pivotal in advising on complex privacy regulatory and commercial matters, structuring compliant business models, and supporting the development of innovative payments and financial services solutions while ensuring adherence to AML, KYC, and other key regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Actively monitor, brief, and advise cross-functional stakeholders on global privacy laws and new legislative and regulatory developments impacting PIPO's business, with special focus in the Americas region.
• Review new products, features, and initiatives, including the use of AI, to identify relevant legal and regulatory requirements impacting PIPO's business and guide compliance with privacy and data protection laws and internal policies. Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to align multi-jurisdictional assessments and facilitate global privacy design and compliance efforts.
• Advise on privacy compliance requirements as part of new payments and financial services license application processes, driving privacy compliance programmes supporting such initiatives.
• Advise on payments-related privacy questions, including those related to the collection and use of data in connection with payments transactions, AML/KYC processes, data retention, and cross-border data transfers.
• Support the development of internal and external global privacy policies, notices, processes, standards and guidelines relevant to the payments business.
• Assess and advise on third-party relationships, including data processing agreements and negotiation of privacy-related contract terms.
• Actively collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development, risk on a range of issues related to product development and commercialisation of financial services products and services, to ensure the effective implementation of privacy and data protection policies and controls across PIPO's business.
• Participate as a proactive business partner for senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer in the United Kingdom, Brazil or Mexico, with relevant experience, preferably across both private practice and in-house, with exposure in Technology, FinTech &/or Financial Services industries.
• Strong understanding of privacy and data protection regulations across the Americas, with special focus in Latin America, and especially the ones applicable to payments and financial services.
• Experience working with jurisdictions in the Americas region, especially Brazil, México, Colombia, Canada, etc.
• Strong contract negotiation skills and an ability to navigate matters independently, demonstrate excellent judgment and decision-making capability with imperfect information.
• Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments and provide practical, business-oriented legal solutions.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across legal, compliance, product, and risk functions.
• Has initiative, a positive attitude, collaborative and a confident self-starter who thrives in a fast paced environment, deals well with ambiguity and focuses on driving impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility, commitment to teamwork, and a willingness to change assignments to meet clients' needs. Anticipates clients needs and delivers with timeliness, accurately sensing the urgency and sensitivity to the situation.
• Ability to manage heavy workload volume and meet critical deadlines with little supervision.
• Proactively makes recommendations for necessary process improvements.
• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the clients' business, industry and organisation and shows support for delivery of the product, services and initiatives of the organisation.
• Demonstrates ability to redirect issues to appropriate resources.
• Proactively identifies problems or issues and takes lead in resolving issues.
• Demonstrates creativity in finding solutions and uses good judgment in doing so.
• Demonstrates ability to influence and enlist support.

Job Information

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.

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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.

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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.

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Diversity & Inclusion

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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.