Senior Privacy Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $199.8k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Abnormal Security

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Abnormal Security is a provider of cloud-native email security solutions that specializes in preventing a wide array of cyber threats. The company focuses on protecting businesses from attacks such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering, ensuring total protection for corporate email systems. Their offerings include business email security, phishing detection, and securing against account takeovers, making them a leader in the computer and network security space.

📋 Description

• Own significant portions of Abnormal AI's global privacy program, including legal judgment, operational execution and oversight, and AI-enabled tooling. • Advise product and engineering on privacy-by-design for an AI-native platform and support AI governance from the legal and privacy side. • Provide product-privacy legal counseling alongside the Director, Legal (Product). • Partner with the Privacy Manager to run day-to-day privacy operations, including DSARs, assessments, ROPA, notices, and audits. • Build and operate AI-enabled privacy workflows with Legal Operations and engineering. • Support global privacy program implementation and continuous improvement across GDPR/UK GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, EU Data Act, US state privacy laws, and other international frameworks. • Advise on international data transfers, including SCCs, UK IDTA, EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and transfer impact assessments. • Drive day-to-day execution of the AI governance program, including EU AI Act classification and related obligations. • Embed privacy into AI-driven features, including model data governance, secondary data-use analysis, behavioral-AI privacy implications, and vendor diligence. • Oversee privacy operations involving data-subject rights, data mapping, DPIA/PIA/TIA/LIA, retention, consent and cookie management, and audit support. • Monitor emerging privacy and AI regulations and translate guidance into product, market-entry, contracting, and go-to-market actions. • Act as privacy escalation point for vendor, subprocessor, and customer agreements, including DPAs, SCCs, and subprocessor terms. • Advise on and help lead privacy and legal aspects of incident response, breach assessment, notifications, and mitigation. • Support the DPO function and engage with supervisory authorities, customer privacy audits, and security questionnaires.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school. • Member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar. • CIPP/E and CIPP/US certifications. • 6–8+ years of relevant experience in privacy and data protection law and program execution. • Deep, current expertise in European privacy and digital regulation, including GDPR/UK GDPR, with working familiarity with NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, and EU Data Act. • Experience operating in or advising technology companies, ideally cybersecurity, SaaS, or cloud companies, including AI/ML products. • Experience contributing to and helping run a privacy program in a fast-moving, global environment. • Experience providing product legal counseling alongside privacy. • Strong drafting and judgment on DPAs, SCCs, and subprocessor terms. • Ability to own initiatives and drive them to completion with minimal oversight. • Ability to lead through influence and persuade diverse senior stakeholders. • Excellent communication and presentation skills. • Fluency with AI tooling and ability to build, prototype, iterate, and refine automation workflows to a high-accuracy, human-review standard.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Benefits package • Equity • Bonus or incentive compensation may be available • Clear path to grow the role toward greater program ownership • Opportunity to build AI automation that changes how privacy work gets done • Opportunity to work at the intersection of privacy, AI governance, product counseling, and security