TikTok
Music Counsel - Product Legal
Los Angeles, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 3 years.
- Education
- Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school.
About the job
Provides transactional legal support for TikTok’s SoundOn music distribution platform and negotiates music licenses for TikTok’s other digital properties.
What you'll do
- Draft and negotiate distribution and licensing agreements with artists, labels, publishers, aggregators, and rights organizations.
- Advise SoundOn product and business teams on music rights deals and artist branding or endorsement arrangements.
- Review and update SoundOn license templates and negotiate catalogue licenses for digital properties.
What they ask for
- Juris Doctor from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar, with ability to register as in-house counsel if working from a different jurisdiction.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience drafting and negotiating agreements involving recorded music or music publishing rights.
- Excellent analytical, communication, drafting, and negotiation skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with blanket sound recording or music publishing rights licenses in the digital music space.
- Prior in-house experience at a digital music service, music distributor, or streaming platform.
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