Senior Manager, Outside Counsel Management
Core
Lead the strategic, commercial, and operational management of TikTok Legal's relationships with outside counsel, ALSPs, and legal vendors to optimize external legal spend and service delivery.
Role type
Senior Manager, Outside Counsel & Legal Vendor Management
Builds
Global outside counsel management program, provider performance frameworks, and commercial strategies
Domain
Legal Operations / Legal Procurement / Vendor Management
Required skills
Law firm economics, legal spend management, commercial negotiations, RFP management, provider performance measurement, data analytics, technology-enabled workflows, vendor lifecycle management, budgeting and forecasting
Preferred skills
Advanced degree in law/business/finance, end-to-end lifecycle process design, leading global distributed teams, vendor-risk management, information security compliance
Technologies
e-billing systems, matter management platforms, spend analytics tools, automation platforms, AI capabilities
Responsibilities
Develop global outside counsel strategies and panel structures; negotiate rates and manage matter budgets; lead sourcing and RFPs for legal services; build provider performance scorecards and KPIs; standardize vendor onboarding and offboarding processes; partner with finance to improve billing controls and reduce leakage; create data dashboards for executive reporting on spend and utilization.
Seniority
Senior Manager, strategic leadership & operational execution