Overview
This role supports enterprise-wide global legal strategy and counsel across jurisdictions, with a focus on international expansion, global privacy, trade, and product regulatory law. The Senior Counsel helps define and execute a strategic legal roadmap across regions, operationalizes scalable governance frameworks, and partners 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 covering user terms, notices, privacy impact assessments, vendor contracts, and consent approaches.
- Help harmonize regional requirements into global standards while enabling pragmatic country-level deviations that support quick expansion into new jurisdictions.
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs and Product to align on regulatory pathways and compliance considerations for new features and new markets.
- Build, maintain, and socialize scalable legal templates, guardrails, and playbooks to streamline international launches and reduce cycle time.
- Operationalize multi-jurisdictional launches by 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, risk considerations, and policy interpretation; 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; establishing clear escalation paths; and creating metrics that demonstrate 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.
- Experience translating 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, including 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
The organization takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary based on location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates’ pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. Ranges may be modified in the future.
Region 1: $206,000 - $235,000
Region 2: $186,000 - $213,000
Region 3: $168,000 - $192,000
A recruiter can determine the Region based on US location.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own 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
Location
Remote role based in the US.
The organization is not considering candidates residing in: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
Equal Opportunity
The employer is an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to creating an inclusive environment. Candidates are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Reasonable accommodation will be provided for individuals with disabilities to participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other employment benefits and privileges.