Global eDiscovery Lead

About the role

TikTok is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented eDiscovery expert to join its Global Litigation team. This role will lead the company’s eDiscovery function and support various legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the company’s global eDiscovery strategy, operations, and technology across all litigation, regulatory, and investigation matters.
• Serve as the company’s lead subject-matter expert for eDiscovery, advising the Global Legal team and collaborating with outside counsel and internal business stakeholders.
• Act as the primary relationship owner for eDiscovery outside counsel, service providers, and vendors, driving performance, innovation, and cost control.
• Lead the global eDiscovery team by overseeing day-to-day operations, setting short-term and long-term goals to build scalable discovery practices globally, and ensuring team member engagement in alignment with those goals.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve global eDiscovery standards, workflows, and playbooks to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability across all regions and matters.
• Oversee the full eDiscovery lifecycle (from preservation through external productions) to ensure defensibility and efficiency across all jurisdictions.
• Evaluate, implement, and optimize eDiscovery technologies and platforms, including advanced analytics and automation.
• Develop metrics, reporting, and forecasting to track performance, risk, and spend across the global discovery portfolio.
• Proactively identify opportunities to modernize and innovate the company’s discovery program through process improvement and technology adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school with license to practice in either New York or California (or able to obtain in-house designation in such jurisdictions).
• Deep, specialized experience in eDiscovery in private practice at a highly regarded firm and/or corporate litigation and/or regulatory environments.
• Proven experience leading global teams of legal and eDiscovery professionals with extensive experience managing large-scale cross-border matters.
• Extensive knowledge of the eDiscovery lifecycle, document review management, data privacy, and information governance.
• Strong knowledge of global regulatory obligations related to litigation, discovery, and information governance.
• Strong technical fluency with enterprise discovery platforms and workflows (including, but not limited to, Relativity and Nuix platforms).
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams globally including Engineering, Security and Information Governance, and Global Legal teams.