Overview
The organization is scaling its privacy program rapidly alongside growth across e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines, with an evolving regulatory landscape. This role embeds privacy into how teams build and operate, providing clear, practical guidance so product, engineering, data science, advertising, health, and business development teams can move quickly while navigating complex data governance decisions.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Monitor global privacy and data protection developments and translate enforcement trends into clear, actionable guidance for business stakeholders.
- Review and counsel new products and business initiatives across e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines to ensure compliant design from the start.
- Establish and support frameworks for the advertising business, including data use, audience targeting, measurement, and consent, with well-governed restrictions on sensitive data in advertising contexts.
- Assess and govern data sharing arrangements with retail partners, advertisers, vendors, and subsidiaries, including DPAs, BAAs, and cross-border transfer mechanisms (SCCs, DPF).
- Strengthen privacy program operations by supporting PRAs and DPIAs, maintaining effective intake and documentation processes, and developing standard guidance, templates, playbooks, and training materials to make privacy requirements accessible and scalable.
Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)
- J.D. from a top-tier law school.
- Membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California required or ability to register as in-house counsel).
- 6+ years of experience focused on privacy and data protection, at a leading law firm, in-house, or both.
- Deep working knowledge of CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, and the evolving landscape of U.S. state privacy and health data laws.
- Experience advising on adtech, data sharing, and consumer data use in a retail, e-commerce, or platform environment.
- Strong ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance for non-legal stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development.
- Experience in AdTech.
Compensation & Benefits
- This role is remote.
- Base pay range depends on permanent work location.
- Offers may vary based on candidate experience and skills required for the role.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
- For Canadian-based candidates, the base pay range is: $185,000—$195,000 CAD.
Location
Remote role. Currently, the organization is only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.