Music Product Counsel – Global Legal
| Company | ByteDance |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, JD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 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
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.
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