Privacy and Product Counsel

Our client, a global financial technology leader, is seeking a Privacy and Product Counsel to support high-impact initiatives across its consumer, and enterprise product lines. This role partners closely with teams across the org to embed privacy-by-design into innovative customer experiences, ensuring transparency, compliance, and strong data stewardship while enabling business growth. The ideal candidate brings demonstrated privacy product experience, a strong command of U.S. and global privacy regs, and the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, product-forward guidance. This is a highly collaborative opportunity to influence cutting-edge financial products, making thoughtful risk-based decisions, and help scale privacy best practices within a mission-driven organization committed to earning and protecting customer trust. Candidates must be licensed attorneys and willing to be hybrid at a client office, with a strong preference for those in Atlanta, New York, or the Bay Area.

Responsibilities:

• Provide practical, product-focused counseling to teams building consumer and SMB experiences across tax, money, mid-market, and Business Services
• Embed privacy into product development by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Security, and Marketing from early concept through launch
• Advise on privacy-by-design controls including data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and customer choice
• Support privacy requirements tied to tax and financial data handling, including advising on tax return information confidentiality (e.g., IRC §7216 and related rules) and related internal governance expectations
• Help teams navigate privacy implications of sensitive data, identity verification, and customer support/service journeys that touch regulated datasets
• Counsel on customer-facing disclosures and UX patterns (e.g., just-in-time notices, consent flows, preference centers, permissioning, and in-product education) to ensure experiences are clear, consistent, and defensible, and to reduce “dark pattern” risk
• Conduct and document privacy impact assessments and provide launch guidance, including risk framing, mitigations, and durable decision records
• Support data sharing and ecosystem questions (first/third-party, vendors, partners, internal platform services), including governance and contractual expectations (in partnership with commercial counsel as needed)
• Build and improve scalable tools, templates, playbooks, intake paths, and training, to help product teams move faster with confidence
• Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders and drive alignment across competing points of view to reach practical outcomes
• Contribute toward the communication of the Privacy Team’s mission and vision to internal partners and stakeholders
• Learn and grow as part of a collaborative and diverse Privacy Team

Qualifications

• Demonstrated relevant legal experience (in-house and/or at a law firm)
• Strong working knowledge of relevant data privacy laws in the US (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, other state privacy laws, GLBA, etc.)
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, and with outside counsel in domestic and international markets, on issues related to data privacy, product design and functionality, transactional issues, and other technology initiatives
• Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into forward-looking and actionable policies, frameworks and guidelines
• Ability to engage in and document detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess privacy and other legal risks
• A learning mindset and comfort operating in the gray
• Ability to communicate with business partners about regulatory obligations, risk management processes and drive change
• Concise and efficient communicator

Expected salary for this role is $153,000 - $207,000, commensurate with experience, training, skills, qualifications, and other market factors.

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Job ID: 7413