Information Security and Incident Response Counsel
TikTok.com
Office
New York, New York, United States
Full Time
About the Team:
Our Global Product and Privacy team provides key support for all of 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 guidance and compliance support for global privacy and regulatory affairs matters including information security and data privacy.
The TikTok Information Security & Incident Response Legal team is seeking a highly experienced, bright and capable legal professional to join the team. One of the critical challenges is the need for our team to provide exceptional support for privacy and information security matters involving TikTok and its parent company, Bytedance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the global legal response to cybersecurity incidents by coordinating with cross-functional teams, including regional legal teams, IT, compliance, and external stakeholders, to ensure a consistent and effective approach across jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with regional counsel in all operational jurisdictions to provide jurisdiction-specific legal advice, ensuring compliance with data breach notification laws, regulatory requirements, and industry standards globally.
- Develop and oversee incident response strategies by counseling internal stakeholders on legal implications, risk mitigation, and regulatory considerations throughout the incident lifecycle, including investigation, containment, and remediation.
- Draft, review, and coordinate regulatory and user notifications in alignment with applicable legal requirements, ensuring accurate and timely communication to impacted parties and regulators.
- Coordinate comprehensive post-incident reports and lead after-action reviews to identify legal and operational gaps, implement lessons learned, and continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks.
- Design and maintain incident response playbooks tailored to legal and regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions, ensuring teams are equipped to handle incidents effectively.
- Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and simulations to test and refine the organization’s incident response readiness, providing legal insights to strengthen protocols and mitigate risks.
- Provide proactive legal counsel to cross-functional teams on cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies, including contract reviews, vendor management, and policy development to reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents.
- Monitor evolving global cybersecurity and privacy regulations to ensure incident response practices remain compliant and align with industry best practices.
- Develop and deliver training for internal teams to promote awareness of legal requirements, privilege considerations, and best practices in incident response and cybersecurity risk management.
Our Global Product and Privacy team provides key support for all of 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 guidance and compliance support for global privacy and regulatory affairs matters including information security and data privacy.
The TikTok Information Security & Incident Response Legal team is seeking a highly experienced, bright and capable legal professional to join the team. One of the critical challenges is the need for our team to provide exceptional support for privacy and information security matters involving TikTok and its parent company, Bytedance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the global legal response to cybersecurity incidents by coordinating with cross-functional teams, including regional legal teams, IT, compliance, and external stakeholders, to ensure a consistent and effective approach across jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with regional counsel in all operational jurisdictions to provide jurisdiction-specific legal advice, ensuring compliance with data breach notification laws, regulatory requirements, and industry standards globally.
- Develop and oversee incident response strategies by counseling internal stakeholders on legal implications, risk mitigation, and regulatory considerations throughout the incident lifecycle, including investigation, containment, and remediation.
- Draft, review, and coordinate regulatory and user notifications in alignment with applicable legal requirements, ensuring accurate and timely communication to impacted parties and regulators.
- Coordinate comprehensive post-incident reports and lead after-action reviews to identify legal and operational gaps, implement lessons learned, and continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks.
- Design and maintain incident response playbooks tailored to legal and regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions, ensuring teams are equipped to handle incidents effectively.
- Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and simulations to test and refine the organization’s incident response readiness, providing legal insights to strengthen protocols and mitigate risks.
- Provide proactive legal counsel to cross-functional teams on cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies, including contract reviews, vendor management, and policy development to reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents.
- Monitor evolving global cybersecurity and privacy regulations to ensure incident response practices remain compliant and align with industry best practices.
- Develop and deliver training for internal teams to promote awareness of legal requirements, privilege considerations, and best practices in incident response and cybersecurity risk management.
Information Security and Incident Response Counsel
Office
New York, New York, United States
Full Time
September 25, 2025