Overview
This role supports a rapidly scaling global privacy program across e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines, while also addressing an evolving regulatory landscape. The position works to embed privacy into how products are built and how teams operate, providing clear, practical guidance to product, engineering, data science, advertising, health, and business development teams.
Responsibilities
- Monitor global privacy and data protection developments and translate enforcement trends into clear, actionable guidance for business stakeholders.
- Review and advise on new products and business initiatives across e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines, ensuring compliant design is embedded from the start.
- Establish and support frameworks for advertising data use, including 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, ensuring DPAs, BAAs, and cross-border transfer mechanisms (SCCs, DPF) are in place.
- Strengthen privacy program operations by supporting PRAs and DPIAs, maintaining effective intake and documentation processes, and scaling privacy guidance through standard templates, playbooks, and training materials.
Requirements
- 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
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where employees work.
- 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.
US base pay ranges
- CA, NY, CT, NJ: $231,000—$244,000 USD
- WA: $221,000—$233,500 USD
- OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $212,000—$224,000 USD
- All other states: $193,000—$203,500 USD
Location
Remote (Flex First approach). Base pay is dependent on permanent work location.