TikTok
Senior Manager, Outside Counsel Management
San Jose, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Significant relevant experience required; no number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
About the job
Leads TikTok Legal’s global outside counsel and legal vendor program, optimizing provider relationships, external legal spend, performance, and service delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop and manage outside counsel strategy, preferred-provider panels, sourcing, and RFPs.
- Negotiate commercial terms and manage spend, billing, budgets, and financial controls.
- Build provider performance frameworks, technology-enabled workflows, analytics, and executive reporting.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Significant relevant experience in legal operations, outside counsel or law firm management, legal spend, legal procurement, professional services management, or a related field, including within a large, complex and global corporate legal.
- Expertise in law firm economics, legal spend management, and commercial negotiations, including rates, matter budgets, AFAs, and other pricing models.
- Experience managing complex law firm and legal vendor networks and implementing outside counsel programs, panels, RFPs, scorecards, and performance frameworks.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in law, business, finance, or another relevant field.
- Experience with external legal provider lifecycle processes, global cross-functional teams, or applicable vendor-risk, information-security, data-governance, and compliance requirements.
AI focus
Leverage emerging AI capabilities in legal operations and analytics; no specific AI development work is stated.
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