Associate General Counsel, Privacy & Product

Job title: Associate General Counsel, Privacy & Product

About the Role

The Associate General Counsel, Privacy & Product, will be part of a global legal team building privacy-focused technologies designed to build a trusted advertising ecosystem. The role focuses on legal counseling to product and business teams to mitigate legal risk in all phases of product development and deployment across the global platform.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with the company's product and business teams from the initial stages of product development and beyond to identify potential legal risks and provide risk-mitigation counseling.

• Maintain an up to date understanding of the intersection of global privacy laws and advertising technology, and how the use of cookies, tags, pixels, AI/ML models, and other mechanisms customize and personalize digital advertising.

• Work closely with internal business partners to understand their perspectives, processes, applications, projects, and technologies to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and best practices while guiding them to the successful resolution of projects.

• Educate employees, partners, and clients about current and emerging privacy issues facing the company and the industry.

• Collaborate with legal and business team members to improve processes.

• What We're Looking For

• Education: J.D. degree from ABA accredited law school.

• Bar: Must be a member in good standing of an applicable state.

• Experience: 8+ years of legal experience.

• Familiarity with legal issues impacting the digital advertising industry including self-regulatory guidelines, privacy and data governance issues and legislation, consumer protection, and global privacy laws & regulations.

• Technology savvy.

• Experience advising on advertising technology matters preferred.

• Detailed understanding of US state privacy laws preferred.

• Product review experience preferred.

• Excellent critical thinking and analytical writing skills, as well as great judgment.

• Decisive, forward thinking, energetic and accountable, with a strong work ethic.

• Ability to work well under pressure with diligence, organization, and minimal supervision, and provide practical, business-friendly advice to clients.

• Ability to boil complex issues down to the bottom line and provide pragmatic advice that can be operationalized.

• Builds effective relationships inside and outside the company established on trust, respect, and confidence.

• Someone who is constantly seeking to keep abreast of current events in the wider privacy community and has a keen interest in the underlying technology we support.

• Collaborative work style, with the ability to build consensus, and drive for results.

• A good sense of humor is appreciated.

• Nice to Have

• Product review experience preferred.

• Experience advising on advertising technology matters preferred.