Senior Product & Privacy Counsel (Hybrid)

Description:

A Free Online Writing Assistant Company is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular A Free Online Writing Assistant Company.
All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of A Free Online Writing Assistant Company's hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.
A Free Online Writing Assistant Company team members in this role must be based in the United States, and they must be able to collaborate in person 3 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.
The Opportunity:
A Free Online Writing Assistant Company is the world's leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, A Free Online Writing Assistant Company's product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. A Free Online Writing Assistant Company has been profitable for over a decade because we've stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that's secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We're proud to be one of Inc.'s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in AI.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we are seeking a Product and Privacy Counsel to become a vital part of our Legal team, collaborating on exciting privacy and product projects. This role involves tackling novel privacy and product legal issues and contributing to building a world-class legal team. The person in this role will be a trusted advisor to our Engineering, Design, and Product teams, providing strategic and tactical advice regarding product and privacy laws. Additionally, they will engage in cutting-edge AI issues and initiatives related to user growth, monetization, privacy compliance, and international expansion. At the core of this position is a remarkable opportunity to make a significant impact by ensuring A Free Online Writing Assistant Company maintains the trust of millions of daily users.
This role will work cross-functionally with our Engineering, Product, Marketing, Compliance, Trust, and Communications teams.
Your Impact:
As a Product and Privacy Counsel, you will take on critical product and Privacy Counseling projects with accuracy and ownership at the intersection of law, business, and technology. As a member of A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Legal team, you will also help develop the team's culture through exemplary care for others and a solid commitment to finding creative solutions to complex questions. This role reports to the Head of Product, Privacy, and Policy.
In this role, you will:

• Identify and address novel product, regulatory, privacy, AI, and other legal risks and mitigations creatively and build processes for launching innovative products at scale.
• Counsel members of our Product, Engineering, Design, Security, Marketing, and Trust teams on end-to-end product, privacy, and policy matters, serving as a resident expert on global privacy, data, product design, and information security.
• Embed yourself within dedicated product teams, serving as a subject matter expert on legal questions related to the product, working cross-functionally with partner teams to draft terms, advise on mitigations, and strategize on customer communications.
• Advise members of our Product organization on high-priority matters to guide organizational planning, including interpreting nascent AI laws, state privacy regulations, and accessibility requirements.
• Collaborate with our Privacy Engineering and Security teams as a critical advisor, tracking high-impact laws, guiding our teams on critical questions, and creating scalable legal processes and playbooks for the internal team.
• Co-lead our IP portfolio strategy, working with a world-class cross-functional team to build, protect, and manage A Free Online Writing Assistant Company's patents and trade secrets and establish and manage A Free Online Writing Assistant Company's patent program.
• Advise the IT and Security teams on legal requirements related to security incidents.
• Collaborate with our Engineering team to build and maintain open-source software policies, programs, and reviews.
• Develop training for the teams you advise and provide periodic updates to the leadership team about legal developments and their implications for A Free Online Writing Assistant Company's product offerings.
• Collaborate with the team on licensing, due diligence, and other product-related matters.

• Embodies our Eager values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our Move principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at A Free Online Writing Assistant Company: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to collaborate in person 3 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has the ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, priorities, and deadlines.
• Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk mitigation to ensure we take the optimal path.
• Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
• Has 5+ years of experience in a demanding and time-sensitive legal role that involved advising high-growth companies on privacy and product issues. In-house and experience counseling on both B2C and B2B issues is a plus.
• Holds a JD (required) and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.

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