TikTok
Global Payments Counsel, Financial Services
TikTok, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
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You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below. About the Team: PIPO is TikTok’s Global Payments Business, playing a crucial role in the monetization of TikTok products 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 Global Payments/Financial Services Legal Counsel to provide strategic commercial legal advice and ensure compliance across PIPO’s payments and financial services operations in the Americas (including Latin America) region. This role is pivotal in advising on complex 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.
Key Responsibilities: - Focused on commercial work, but also advises on a range of issues including financial services regulation (e.g. Consumer/merchant financing, purchase protection, etc), consumer protection, KYC, risk assessment/compliance related to the financial services businesses worldwide. - Structure, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements with our various partners supporting the financial services businesses. - Actively collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development, and risk on a range of issues related to product development and commercialization of financial services products and services. - Work closely with colleagues across the global legal team to advise on general issues in connection with the launch of projects or programs in the destination countries/regions. - Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new features and products. - Stay up-to-date and serve as the subject matter expert of financial service regulations, including AML, KYC and KYB and other ancillary topics related to financial services. - Participate as a proactive business partner for senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: - Qualified lawyer in the US, preferably NY or CA, with relevant experience, preferably across both private practice and in-house, with exposure in Technology, FinTech &/or Financial Services industries. - Strong understanding of the financial services sector, including knowledge of compliance requirements such as consumer protection, anti-money laundering rules, know-your-customer requirements, etc. - Strong contract negotiation skills with a focus on payments, financial services, technology, and commercial agreements. - 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.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working with other jurisdictions in the Americas region, like Canada and Latin America. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility, commitment to teamwork, and a willingness to change assignments 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 organization and shows support for delivery of the product, services and initiatives of the organization. - Proactively identifies problems or issues and takes lead in resolving issues.
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) - Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is 153600 - 287280 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. Seniority level
Seniority levelNot Applicable Employment type
Employment typeFull-time Job function
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You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below. About the Team: PIPO is TikTok’s Global Payments Business, playing a crucial role in the monetization of TikTok products 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 Global Payments/Financial Services Legal Counsel to provide strategic commercial legal advice and ensure compliance across PIPO’s payments and financial services operations in the Americas (including Latin America) region. This role is pivotal in advising on complex 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.
Key Responsibilities: - Focused on commercial work, but also advises on a range of issues including financial services regulation (e.g. Consumer/merchant financing, purchase protection, etc), consumer protection, KYC, risk assessment/compliance related to the financial services businesses worldwide. - Structure, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements with our various partners supporting the financial services businesses. - Actively collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development, and risk on a range of issues related to product development and commercialization of financial services products and services. - Work closely with colleagues across the global legal team to advise on general issues in connection with the launch of projects or programs in the destination countries/regions. - Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new features and products. - Stay up-to-date and serve as the subject matter expert of financial service regulations, including AML, KYC and KYB and other ancillary topics related to financial services. - Participate as a proactive business partner for senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: - Qualified lawyer in the US, preferably NY or CA, with relevant experience, preferably across both private practice and in-house, with exposure in Technology, FinTech &/or Financial Services industries. - Strong understanding of the financial services sector, including knowledge of compliance requirements such as consumer protection, anti-money laundering rules, know-your-customer requirements, etc. - Strong contract negotiation skills with a focus on payments, financial services, technology, and commercial agreements. - 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.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working with other jurisdictions in the Americas region, like Canada and Latin America. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility, commitment to teamwork, and a willingness to change assignments 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 organization and shows support for delivery of the product, services and initiatives of the organization. - Proactively identifies problems or issues and takes lead in resolving issues.
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) - Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is 153600 - 287280 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. Seniority level
Seniority levelNot Applicable Employment type
Employment typeFull-time Job function
Job functionLegal IndustriesTechnology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at TikTok by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for “Lawyer” roles. Washington, DC $210,000.00-$312,000.00 5 days ago Washington, DC $123,500.00-$212,850.00 5 days ago Washington, DC $153,600.00-$287,280.00 4 days ago Washington DC-Baltimore Area $125,000.00-$175,000.00 5 days ago Washington, DC $135,000.00-$166,000.00 1 month ago Global Privacy Counsel, Regulatory Investigations Washington, DC $126,000.00-$216,000.00 1 week ago Washington, DC $191,700.00-$338,580.00 1 week ago Defense Counsel (Claremore, Rogers County) Reston, VA $165,000.00-$180,000.00 1 month ago Washington, DC $176,000.00-$204,000.00 2 weeks ago Washington, DC $145,000.00-$175,000.00 1 month ago Privacy Counsel (Full Time, Remote Position) Bethesda, MD $140,000.00-$155,000.00 1 month ago Washington, DC $153,600.00-$287,280.00 1 week ago Washington, DC $150,000.00-$190,000.00 1 week ago Washington, DC $125,000.00-$250,000.00 5 days ago General Attorney (Enforcement and Litigation) District of Columbia, United States 6 days ago We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
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