Senior Legal Counsel, Product & Privacy

Overview

This role supports a fast-moving, 100% remote organization based in the United States that operates a creator-focused marketing and commerce platform with multiple revenue streams, including SaaS, digital commerce, paid recommendations, and advertising.

The organization is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to serve as the primary in-house legal subject matter expert and to lead product legal strategy and execution—especially across privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support for internal teams.

A key focus will be helping the organization respond to a growing volume of privacy questions, including as a newer product evolves and requires practical, repeatable systems that deliver timely and consistent guidance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the in-house legal subject matter expert and partner closely with the executive team.
• Lead product legal strategy and execution across privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, and customer security requirements.
• Develop and improve repeatable legal guidance processes, including scalable intake, guidance, and escalation systems.
• Establish and maintain legal workflows that reduce unnecessary reliance on outside counsel.
• Translate privacy and compliance requirements into practical playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance.
• Own GDPR and data compliance vetting and establish clear processes for responding to customer security questionnaires.
• Partner across product, engineering, security, sales, sponsorships, finance, and people operations to enable faster execution without cutting corners.
• Support the product lifecycle and feature releases with particular attention to privacy, data-use, and compliance considerations.
• Build durable systems that enable teams to answer common questions independently while escalating higher-risk matters appropriately.

First-week focus

• Learn the organization’s business model, goals, and products.
• Review common legal agreements, privacy questions, and customer security requests to assess risk, opportunity, ambiguity, and recurring work.
• Meet key stakeholders and external counsel.

First-month focus

• Gain a working understanding of active data processing, privacy, AI, and other legal initiatives.
• Build a “what’s on deck” view of upcoming legal needs.
• Begin designing a scalable privacy intake, guidance, and escalation system.
• Partner with Sales, Sponsorships, Security, Product, and Engineering.
• Take ownership of GDPR and data compliance vetting and define processes for customer security questionnaire responses.

First-six-month focus

• Become the go-to partner for legal considerations across product, engineering, security, and GTM teams.
• Build scalable systems (playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance) for recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance questions.
• Partner throughout the product lifecycle with special focus on privacy and compliance in connected products.
• Prioritize major legal risks, streamline legal workflows, and increase speed, confidence, and self-service.

First-year focus

• Increase overall legal maturity across privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support.
• Establish durable systems that let teams answer common questions independently while escalating higher-risk matters appropriately.
• Reduce reliance on outside counsel for work that can be handled effectively in-house.
• Help treat privacy, data, and compliance as strategic enablers for product and business outcomes.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in data, compliance, and product, with a focus on privacy and related requirements.
• Strong understanding of U.S. and European data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), including controller vs. processor distinctions and how they impact vendor and product decisions.
• Ability to translate privacy and compliance requirements into scalable playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance.
• Experience supporting customer security questionnaires and partnering effectively with security, sales, product, and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and the legal, privacy, and customer requirements associated with it, even if not personally owned.
• Understanding of intellectual property law, especially related to brand, content, and software.
• Understanding of commercial contracts, including serving as a go-to resource.
• Clear communicator and trusted advisor who can simplify complexity and support informed decisions.
• Experience as in-house counsel at a tech company, or serving a tech portfolio at a top-tier firm known for work with startups (e.g., Fenwick & West, Cooley).
• J.D. from an accredited law school in the United States.
• Active member in good standing of a State Bar Association.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling privacy, data-use, AI, and compliance challenges in a fast-moving product environment.
• Experience building legal process systems that reduce reliance on outside counsel.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate legal guidance clearly to non-legal stakeholders.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: Individual contributor level 4 ($227,000) or level 5 ($252,000) with standardized salaries based on position, no matter where you live.
• Profit Sharing
• Equity
• 401(k) with a 5% match
• Medical premiums: organization covers up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums; dental and vision premiums fully covered
• Health Insurance plans through Aetna
• $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years; $1,000 budget every following two years (company-provided laptops issued to each team member; not included in the equipment budget)
• Individual learning and development budget: $3,500/year
• Gender affirming benefits
• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON
• 20 days of paid time off each year of employment
• Paid vacation bonus: after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation fully unplugged from work
• 10 paid holidays a year
• Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health and well-being days
• Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
• Up to six weeks paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster after six months of employment (two weeks of each paid leave in your first six months)
• Winter Break Closure: organization closes for a week at the end of December; essential support services remain available
• Four-week paid sabbatical after five years with the team
• Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year

Location

• Remote (100% remote)
• This role requires the candidate to be located in the United States.

Hiring Process

• Phone screen with recruiter (30 min)
• Hiring manager interview (45 min)
• Take-home assignment
• Panel interview with cross-functional stakeholders (60 min)

Equal Opportunity Statement

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.