
Senior Manager, Legal Operations (Contracts)
Job description
About the Team
TikTok is seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Manager, Contract Operations to lead the evolution of its global contract operations capabilities.
Reporting into the Head of Global Legal Operations (GLO), the role will be responsible for driving operational excellence across the contract lifecycle, partnering closely with Legal, Sales, Finance, Procurement, IT and other business stakeholders.
The Senior Manager will help establish a scalable, technology-enabled contracting operating model, leveraging process optimization, data, automation and emerging AI capabilities to improve the speed, efficiency, visibility and quality of contracting across TikTok.
The ideal candidate combines deep contract operations expertise with strong business-process, technology and transformation experience and is comfortable operating at both the strategic and execution levels.
What You'll Do
Lead Contract Operations Strategy
- Develop and execute a strategy for scaling contract operations globally, working closely with legal and business partners
- Establish standardized, efficient and scalable contracting processes across business and legal teams.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve the end-to-end contracting lifecycle.
Drive Contracting Process Transformation
- Analyze existing contracting workflows and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
- Design and implement improved intake, routing, review, approval, execution and post-signature processes.
- Reduce manual work, cycle times and operational friction while improving visibility and control.
- Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives from requirements through implementation and adoption.
Drive Contracting Technology & CLM
- Define and execute the roadmap for contract lifecycle management and related contracting technologies.
- Evaluate, implement and optimize CLM, workflow automation and emerging contract technologies.