One of our clients,a high growth technology company, is looking to hire a Product & Privacy Legal Counsel, to be based in their offices in San Francisco.
This role will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal subject-matter experts, as you help shape the future of products used by billions of users worldwide. This is an opportunity to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment as we build and scale for our global community.
Responsibilities
- Become a deep subject-matter expert in the products you cover, building close connections with your product team through effective communication and collaboration
- Serve as the first point of contact for your product team’s legal questions, and for the broader legal team’s questions about your product
- Review new and changed products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience with drafting and reviewing Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)
- Provide and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues applicable to the product you are supporting, including compliance with newly developing regulatory and legal obligations
- Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk
- Support the company’s global privacy program, including support for external regulatory inquiries and audits
- Coordinate with public policy, communications, product management, engineering, product marketing, trust and safety, and other cross-functional teams on external communications, policy development, internal investigations, and product development and launches
Minimum Qualifications
- J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent)
- 8+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm or in-house experience
- Experience in one of the following areas: Litigation, regulatory, product counselling, data security, privacy and/or client counselling
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
- Proven experience to distil complicated technical concepts for legal colleagues and to distil complicated legal concepts for technical colleagues
- Experience working on multiple projects at once
- Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills
