About this role
Job title: Senior Legal Counsel
About the Role The Senior Legal Counsel will provide holistic in-house legal guidance to Wikimedia Foundation’s Fundraising, Product, and Engineering teams, enabling innovation while protecting the privacy of the global community. The role focuses on marketing and fundraising engagement, regulatory developments around marketing and AI, and helping shape a global legal ecosystem where free knowledge can thrive with minimal disintermediation. This position reports to the Associate General Counsel.
What You'll Do
- Analyzing current and forthcoming regulations related to marketing, customization, and other fundraising initiatives to support Advancement, Product and Technology teams on marketing and mobile app development
- Collaborating with the Foundation's lawyers and public policy professionals to address the impact of Generative AI and create a global legal ecosystem in which free knowledge can thrive with minimal disintermediation
- Identifying and executing opportunities to advance the Wikimedia mission within a complex, shifting technological and legal landscape
- Supporting the Product and Engineering teams in developing a data governance model that allows for novel features while maintaining high privacy standards, for example in the space of reader engagement
What We're Looking For
- J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree preferably paired with significant U.S. legal experience
- Admission to practice law and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
- Experience with product, privacy, marketing and other internet law issues, advising a user-facing digital technology or internet company (in-house), preferably with global reach
- 5-7 years experience with legal review of go-to-market, fundraising, technical products or online services
- Significant experience working with engineering colleagues as a counselor and advisor to achieve organizational goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full fluency in written and spoken English
- A deep commitment to a free and open internet, open-source movement, and the Wikimedia mission
- Comfortable working in a highly transparent, multicultural, and collaborative environment
- A fast learner with the sound judgment needed to handle complex projects independently in a fast-paced setting
- High personal integrity with a strong public service orientation
Nice to Have
- Experience with marketing, fundraising and campaign customization, and online communities
- A degree or work experience in marketing, campaign management, computer science, engineering, or related experience, and understanding fundraising, marketing and software engineering processes and issues
- Ability to speak other languages, experience living or working outside the United States, or past work on international legal issues
Compensation & Benefits
- Not specified in the posting