Fastly
Senior Counsel, Privacy and Regulatory
New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$211k-$254kDetected 5 days ago
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About the role
- Posting Open Date: 6/22/26 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 8/22/26 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
- This is a great opportunity for a thoughtful, pragmatic, and collaborative attorney with strong business instincts who wants to help shape innovative edge cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Domain Leadership: Architect, scale, and lead a global privacy program, managing stakeholder engagement across the company
- Regulatory Strategy: Manage compliance strategy for emerging regulatory and technical issues related to cutting-edge products and new jurisdictions, including evolving cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI regulations (e.g., NIS2, CRA, ISP-specific frameworks, global privacy laws)
- Policy Management: Design and drive internal company policies, external assets, and sales collateral addressing global privacy, data protection, and other regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, EU Data Act, EU AI Act)
- Product Counseling: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development, incorporating "privacy by design" and similar principles
- Commercial Negotiations: Serve as our subject matter expert on privacy and other relevant regulations in complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements in collaboration with other Legal and business partners
- Talent Support: Partner with our People team to advise on global employee data protection, workforce privacy initiatives, and talent-related privacy matters.
- Incident Management: Independently manage the legal response to privacy-related incidents
- Process & Training: Draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement on privacy and regulatory matters
- Operational Support: Oversee and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs), and support audits, law enforcement requests, and platform-abuse process and policy
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development, incorporating "privacy by design" and similar principles
Requirements
- Regulatory Expertise: Advanced knowledge of U.S. and global privacy and data protection laws and experience with emerging technology regulations, including AI regulatory schemes
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience
- A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
- All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers.
Skills
- Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love.
- Come join us.
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 8/22/26
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
- Senior Privacy and Regulatory Counsel
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370.00 - $253,644.
- Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly.
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.
- Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
Company info
- Architect, scale, and lead a global privacy program, managing stakeholder engagement across the company
- What We're Looking For:
- We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
- We are passionate.
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