The Global Legal Business Partner, AI team provides front-line legal support for ByteDance’s AI products and businesses, spanning foundation models, AI platforms and applications, enterprise services, robotics, and hardware. We partner with teams throughout the product lifecycle to help turn emerging technologies into responsible products and services for users and businesses around the world.
AI technology is advancing rapidly while laws, regulatory expectations, and industry standards continue to take shape across markets. We work alongside Product, Trust and Safety, Policy, Communications, and other cross-functional teams to strengthen AI governance, provide guidance on safety, privacy, and intellectual property considerations, and support responsible product development in line with evolving requirements.
You will contribute as significant AI products and capabilities are being built, bringing legal judgment to decisions that shape their design, development, and deployment. This is an opportunity to influence how ByteDance advances AI responsibly at scale while working at the forefront of law and technology.
About the Team:
ByteDance's AI Product and Frontier Risk Counseling team provides domain expert legal support to the company's AI products and models, in particular supporting our Seed business. The team is growing fast and as we scale, we’re looking for a seasoned lawyer to serve as a global legal expert and strategist who can pair deep policy expertise with a builder’s mindset as they help to guide our teams to turn cutting-edge ideas into trusted, world-class products. The role will be an integral resource for ByteDance's AI product and business teams by helping to craft strategic, market-facing narratives for our AI businesses that unlock new opportunities while also helping to solve some of the most challenging AI issues globally, including implementing policies, standards and best practices relating to frontier AI risk domains.
This is a highly collaborative, on-site role that requires five days per week in the office located in Washington, D.C.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually) - Washington, DC
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $ 156600 - $ 266220 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.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico 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 ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance 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://tinyurl.com/RA-request
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $ 156600 - $ 266220 annually.
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.
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. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users.
We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.
