Corporate Counsel, Cybersecurity & Enforcement

Overview

This role is for an experienced Corporate Counsel to join the legal team, specifically the Cybersecurity Legal team. You will serve as a strategic legal advisor on cybersecurity matters and help develop and execute the organization’s legal strategy for cybercrime investigations and enforcement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic legal advisor on cybersecurity risks, programs, technologies, incidents, and evolving legal and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the legal response to cybersecurity incidents and investigations, including advising on response strategy, legal obligations, and communications.
• Develop legal strategies to investigate, disrupt, and pursue bad actors who target the organization, its customers, merchants, and partners.
• Advise on significant cybersecurity matters, including security initiatives, incident response, and evolving legal and regulatory requirements.
• Help investigate bad actors targeting the organization and develop legal strategies to disrupt their activities and pursue appropriate enforcement actions.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor.
• 5–7+ years of legal experience.
• Strong legal judgment and the ability to make decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving situations with imperfect information.
• Experience with cybersecurity, cybercrime, enforcement, commercial litigation, technology, or related legal issues.
• Experience in a law firm, government, or in-house legal department.
• Authorized to practice law in the U.S. state where you are located.
• Ability to quickly understand complex legal and technical issues and translate them into practical advice.
• Comfort leading complex, high-stakes matters and exercising sound judgment under pressure.
• Self-starter who can independently drive matters while also collaborating effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a prosecutor or government attorney handling cybercrime, fraud, technology-related investigations, or enforcement matters.
• Experience working with law enforcement on complex investigations.
• Experience pursuing or supporting civil or criminal actions against bad actors.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity laws, regulatory investigations, incident response, and cybersecurity disclosure obligations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors, including skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to the employee’s work location.
• Base salary range (United States, including Illinois and Colorado): $183,600—$270,000 USD
• Additional compensation includes opportunities for equity grants.

Benefits for regular employees include:

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program, among others

Paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

Location

This position’s national base pay range applies within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

Additional Notices

• In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, qualified applicants—including those with arrest and conviction records—will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable regulation.
• If accommodations are needed, applicants should inform the recruiting contact upon initial connection.
• Notice to applicants for jobs in NYC or remote jobs associated with an office in NYC only: Covey may be used as part of the hiring and/or promotional process. Covey Scout for Inbound was used from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023 and then resumed from June 29, 2024, before ceasing on April 30, 2026. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor; results of the audit are available upon request.