Senior Lead Counsel, Privacy

🔥 35 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $178.3k - $367k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Pinterest

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

👥 B2C

💰 Post IPO equity on 2022-08

Media • B2C

Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform that helps users discover, save, and organize images and ideas (Pins) for interests, projects, and shopping. It provides personalized recommendations and visual search so people can plan and explore topics like home design, fashion, recipes, and events, and it supports commerce features and ads for creators and retailers.

📋 Description

• Provide end-to-end privacy counseling to Trust & Safety and Product teams from early design through launch and iteration • Advise on global privacy and data protection issues in Trust & Safety, including platform abuse prevention, content moderation, user reporting, enforcement operations, account integrity, age assurance, identity-related signals, automated decision-making, and sensitive data handling • Counsel on EU GDPR, ePrivacy, UK GDPR, CCPA, UK Children’s Code, California AADC, and other global privacy frameworks • Lead and support privacy risk assessments, including DPIAs, and drive practical mitigations • Partner with Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering, Security, Regulatory, and Legal teams to operationalize privacy-by-design • Develop scalable governance frameworks, review processes, templates, workflows, and playbooks • Advise on third-party and vendor arrangements, privacy terms, data protection requirements, and data sharing • Advise on international data transfers and compliant transfer mechanisms • Address privacy issues arising from incidents, complaints, escalations, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations • Leverage AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve privacy counseling and program workflows while maintaining legal oversight

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction where you reside • Minimum of 10 years of experience • Experience providing privacy counseling to Trust & Safety and Product teams in a fast-paced environment • Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments • Experience with EU GDPR, ePrivacy, UK GDPR, CCPA, UK Children’s Code, California AADC, and other global privacy laws • Experience with privacy product counseling on ads in the tech sector is a significant plus • Experience advising on commercial matters, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating DPAs and related data protection terms, is a significant plus • Excellent judgment, strong ownership, and ability to operate independently on sensitive, high-stakes matters • Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills • Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities independently, with sound judgment and attention to detail • Practical, solutions-oriented approach • Ability to use AI and other technology tools effectively and responsibly, or willingness to learn • Experience navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance issues preferred • Familiarity with international data transfer mechanisms such as SCCs and transfer risk assessments preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • PinFlex flexible work model • In-person collaboration only 1–2 times every 6 months • Relocation assistance not available