Overview
This role is responsible for senior legal counsel supporting enterprise-wide global legal strategy and advice across jurisdictions. The position focuses on international expansion, global privacy, trade, and product regulatory law. You will help determine and execute the strategic legal roadmap across jurisdictions, operationalize scalable governance frameworks, and partner cross-functionally to enable market entry, compliant product launches, and durable business operations.
This is a remote role based in the US.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic legal counsel on international expansion, entity and market-entry pathways, compliance, and risk considerations for operations in new and existing jurisdictions.
- Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements, including cross-border data transfers and localized requirements such as user terms, notices, privacy impact assessments, vendor contracts, and consent approaches.
- Help harmonize regional requirements into global standards while allowing pragmatic country-level deviations to support timely expansion into new jurisdictions.
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs and Product to align on regulatory pathways and compliance considerations for new features and markets.
- Build, maintain, and socialize scalable legal templates, guardrails, and playbooks that streamline international launches and reduce cycle time.
- Operationalize multi-jurisdictional launches, including coordinating with outside counsel across regions and consolidating country-specific advice into clear, actionable guidance for internal technical and non-legal stakeholders.
- Support responses to regulatory authority inquiries, enforcement matters, and risk-related considerations; coordinate strategy and communications with outside counsel as needed.
- Advise on advertising and promotional compliance, substantiation requirements, and labeling considerations to align with regulatory clearances and applicable consumer protection laws.
- Provide counsel on global trade compliance for product and data flows, including export controls (EAR/ITAR), sanctions/embargoes, customs/import classification (HTS), ECCN and dual-use analysis, restricted-party screening, and distributor/partner diligence.
- Help implement and maintain policies, training, and controls to support prompt cross-border launches and supply chain resilience.
- Support legal program enablement by developing intake, triage, and review lanes; clear escalation paths; and metrics demonstrating business enablement, internal compliance, and risk management.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant legal experience, including advising on international expansion and global privacy and/or product regulatory matters.
- Demonstrated ability to counsel cross-functional teams (Product, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Operations) in a fast-paced environment with pragmatic, business-forward guidance.
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) and good standing with at least one U.S. state bar (or international equivalent in a common law jurisdiction).
- Strong working knowledge of major global privacy frameworks and cross-border transfer mechanisms, plus familiarity with international consumer and marketing law considerations; able to translate complex, multi-regional rules into actionable, product-ready requirements.
- Experience building scalable legal processes (templates, playbooks, SLAs), communicating with regulators, and managing outside counsel across regions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity for executive and non-legal audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-house experience at a high-growth technology or consumer health company.
- Exposure to wearable technologies, digital health, connected devices, and/or software-as-a-medical-device regulation.
- Specific expertise supporting EU/UK markets.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages.
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources.
- An employee ring plus employee discounts for friends & family.
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off.
- Paid sick leave and parental leave.
Pay is market-based and varies by location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index.
- Region 1 $206,000 - $235,000
- Region 2 $186,000 - $213,000
- Region 3 $168,000 - $192,000
A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location. Offers may be modified in the future and will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions.
Location
Remote role based in the US.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
Equal Opportunity & Accessibility
The employer is an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate based on protected characteristics under federal, state, or local laws. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with disabilities to participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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