Sr. Lead Counsel, Privacy

Overview

This Senior Privacy Counsel role (EU) provides strategic, product-focused privacy counseling to help design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements, including GDPR and ePrivacy. The position partners with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Marketing, and Legal to embed privacy-by-design into the product lifecycle, guide high-impact launches, and balance business goals with privacy compliance obligations.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end privacy counseling, including to Trust & Safety and Product teams, covering products, features, tools, and operations from early design through launch and iteration.
• Advise on global privacy and data protection issues in a Trust & Safety context, including:
  • Platform abuse prevention
  • Content moderation
  • User reporting
  • Enforcement operations
  • Account integrity
  • Age assurance
  • Identity-related signals
  • Automated decision-making
  • Sensitive data handling
• Counsel on key privacy and privacy-adjacent legal and regulatory frameworks, including:
  • EU GDPR and ePrivacy
  • UK GDPR
  • CCPA
  • UK Children’s Code
  • California AADC
  • Other global privacy laws
  • Familiarity with related online safety, transparency, and accountability issues
• Lead and support privacy risk assessments, including DPIAs where applicable, and drive practical mitigations with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering, Security, Regulatory, and Legal teams to operationalize privacy-by-design in systems, workflows, and investigations.
• Support scalable privacy governance, including review processes, templates, and playbooks to enable efficient and consistent privacy review.
• Provide guidance on third-party and vendor arrangements, including privacy terms, data protection requirements, and data sharing considerations.
• Advise on international data transfers for cross-border data flows, partnering with internal stakeholders and outside counsel where appropriate to support compliant transfer mechanisms and risk mitigations.
• Develop and improve scalable privacy workflows, templates, and playbooks to enable consistent, efficient privacy review across multiple teams and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and Legal colleagues to address privacy issues arising from incidents, complaints, escalations, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations; drive durable process improvements.
• Use AI-enabled tools thoughtfully and responsibly to improve efficiency and consistency of privacy counseling and privacy workflows, while maintaining appropriate legal oversight and quality control.

Requirements

• Qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction where you reside with a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience providing privacy counseling in a fast-paced environment to Trust & Safety and Product teams, translating legal requirements into clear, practical guidance for business, product, and technical teams.
• Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments and driving cross-functional mitigations to enable launches while managing risk.
• Experience with privacy product counseling on ads in the tech sector and advising on commercial matters is a plus, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating data processing agreements (DPAs) and advising on related data protection terms.
• Excellent judgment and strong ownership; ability to operate independently on sensitive and high-stakes matters.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities independently with sound judgment and attention to detail; practical, solutions-oriented approach.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI and other technology tools effectively and responsibly, and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, or willingness to learn.
• Experience navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance issues for a technology company or similarly dynamic environment preferred.
• Familiarity with international data transfer mechanisms (e.g., SCCs and transfer risk assessments) preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range (US based applicants only): $178,255—$366,996 USD
• Eligible for equity
• Final salary is based on factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, and particular skills and expertise.

Location

• Relocation assistance: Not eligible for relocation assistance.
• In-office requirement: In-person collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months. Role can be situated anywhere in the country.
• US based applicants only