About the Team

Our Global Legal Compliance team provides key support for all of Byte Dance's and Tik Tok's innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global markets. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated legal and compliance guidance and support. The Byte Dance and Tik Tok team are growing fast and is seeking a highly experienced, bright, and capable legal/compliance lawyer to join us.

We are looking for a highly experienced, bright, and capable compliance lawyer to be based in London to join our Global Legal Compliance team to work closely with our regional compliance officers in APAC, LATAM, METAP, EUI who serve as our stakeholder-facing representatives in each key region. This position requires you to have strong experience in advising anti-corruption & anti-bribery, sanctions, and anti-money laundering issues. The ideal candidate is willing to work in a fast-paced, global environment with cross-functional teams in different time zones, and enjoys the challenges and opportunities of novel issues across a variety of jurisdictions with an open-minded mentality to tackle issues which we may not see before.

Responsibilities

• Strategically support and implement regional legal compliance projects and initiatives and keep track of and manage progress for major compliance projects such as regional risk assessments, internal investigations, and compliance reviews / remediations.
• Conduct and support periodic legal compliance risk assessments to assess effectiveness of compliance programs, systems, identify gaps and develop remediation plans.
• Advise and counsel compliance inquiries and material matters handled by our regional compliance officers.
• Support regional stakeholder engagements including in person training and communications.
• Conduct and coordinate data analysis across regional compliance projects to identify compliance trends and risks.
• Work with our regional compliance officers on providing regional feedback and insight to global compliance programs maintained by the Global Legal Compliance team.
• Maintain competency in evolving regional law and regulation trends and risks, and regulatory regimes that could impact the business with a focus on anti-corruption & anti-bribery, sanctions, and anti-money laundering issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Law degree or Masters of Law, up-to-date qualifications to practice law in common law jurisdiction is required; JD or LLM in US/UK is preferred.
• Proven combined compliance experience in a reputable international law firm and in-house with a multi-national company; technology and/or fintech sector experience preferred.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the substance and nuances of laws in the anti-corruption & anti-bribery, sanctions and AML areas, skillfully interpreting and applying legal concepts to effectively handle various legal matters, including in ambiguous situations; takes on a leadership role in addressing complex legal matters, where warranted, exhibiting a high level of autonomy and responsibility; considers both business and legal implications of advice with a well-attuned understanding of risk.
• Strong experience working on regional and/or global compliance projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; understands client needs, requirements, and key concerns; adapts communication style and approach to maximize impact across a range of audiences.
• Possess the highest standard of ethics and a positive attitude in learning and willing to pick up new knowledge and skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience in emerging markets, such as LATAM, APAC, METAP, EE.
• Ability to manage heavy workload volume and meet critical deadlines with little supervision.
• Proactively identifies problems or issues and takes lead in resolving issues, and 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.
• Demonstrates ability to redirect issues to appropriate resources.
• Demonstrates creativity in finding solutions and uses good judgment in doing so.