Music Product Counsel - Global Legal

6 Months ago • All levels • Legal • $133,000 PA - $216,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

ByteDance seeks a Music Product Counsel to support AI initiatives. Must have expertise in AI, machine learning, and legal experience in tech. Experience with music rights, risk mitigation, and collaborating with internal stakeholders is crucial.
Must have:
  • AI Expertise
  • Machine Learning
  • Legal Experience
  • Music Rights
Good to have:
  • Mandarin Fluency
  • Process Improvement
  • Operational Teams
  • Tech Company
Perks:
  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Leave

Job Details

Responsibilities
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok 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 Us Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us. About The Team The Global Music Legal team supports all music-related business of the company ByteDance is looking for a product counsel to join its Global Music Legal team and provide support for the company's AI-related initiatives. The role will be an integral resource for key internal stakeholders, including Product teams, by reviewing new projects, applications, features and functionalities and providing guidance related to music rights implications and risk mitigation strategies. The position will have a global focus and will be based in Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA or Seattle, WA and will work closely with and report to the team's leader. 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 - Bachelor’s 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 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. ByteDance Inc. 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $133000 - $216600 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. 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.

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