General Counsel

🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Optery

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

💰 $2.7M Seed Round on 2023-05

Cybersecurity • Privacy • SaaS

Optery is a comprehensive service that helps individuals and businesses remove personal information from data brokers and people search websites. By utilizing patented technology combined with AI and expert human agents, Optery effectively manages the opt-out process, providing users with detailed exposure reports and ongoing monitoring to ensure their information is securely managed. With a strong focus on privacy rights and customer support, Optery aims to reduce digital footprints and protect users from identity theft and privacy invasions.

📋 Description

• Build and lead Optery’s legal function • Advise the CEO, Board of Directors, and leadership team on legal, regulatory, and risk matters • Draft, review, manage, and negotiate B2B SaaS, vendor, partnership, and other commercial agreements • Create processes and systems to manage greater contract volumes • Lead data privacy and regulatory compliance efforts • Communicate with non-compliant data brokers to compel compliance • Build relationships with CalPrivacy/CPPA, State Attorneys General, and Departments of Justice • Assemble evidence of non-compliance and file complaints with regulators • Support corporate governance, board matters, and equity administration • Support financing transactions, equity and debt instruments, and potential M&A activity • Advise on employment matters, intellectual property, and risk mitigation • Manage outside counsel relationships and develop internal legal processes and policies • Build the legal team, including potential future legal hires

🎯 Requirements

• 8–15 years of legal experience, with time spent at a top-tier law firm and in-house at a technology or privacy-focused company • Strong expertise in U.S. consumer data privacy law and regulatory frameworks • Familiarity with enforcement trends under the CCPA, VCDPA, CPA, TDPSA, OCPA, and other state data privacy laws is strongly preferred • Demonstrated experience navigating or working with regulatory agencies such as the CPPA, Attorney General offices, Departments of Justice, or FTC • Strong background in commercial contracts, corporate governance, and startup equity and debt financing matters • Excellent communicator and negotiator with a bias for action and pragmatism • Passion for consumer privacy and strong motivation for holding data brokers accountable to consumer data privacy laws • Track record of professional success and achievement • Licensed to practice law in the U.S.; California preferred, but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers bonus • Great health, dental, and vision insurance • 401k program with employer match • Paid time off policy • Stipend for home office setup

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