Director, Privacy Legal
Remote - United States · Director · Contract
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About the role
- It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain external and internal privacy- and legal-related policies and processes in line with industry standard frameworks.
- Manage government and regulator discussions, negotiations, and disclosures on privacy and data protection compliance readiness efforts.
- Be the lead legal subject matter expert for privacy and data protection, ensuring consistency in privacy counseling across the legal team, in line with Reddit's user-centric approach to privacy.
- Partner with and advise technical teams to investigate potential privacy and security issues and ensure compliance with applicable law.
- Be a strategic, proactive and pragmatic legal partner and collaborator with high EQ.
- Manage the Legal team's support of Reddit's global privacy compliance program. Provide advice and counsel to ensure Reddit meets its legal obligations and legal requirements under US, EU, and other applicable legal frameworks around the world.
- You will also own responses to informal and formal privacy regulatory inquiries, and build relevant regulatory and industry body relationships.
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Requirements
- Law degree (JD, LLB, LLM, etc.).
- You are locally licensed in your jurisdiction, and ideally you have legal experience in multiple jurisdictions.
- 12+ years of legal experience, at a top law firm or in house, with 5+ years of in-house privacy and/or product counseling experience.
- Experience with global privacy laws and industry guidelines, especially including those relevant for tech platforms like Reddit.
- Experience responding to and partnering with regulators, particularly in Europe.
- Experience managing high impact and strong performing legal team members in a dynamic, inclusive environment.
Compensation
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
Company info
- Partner with and advise product and engineering teams to design and implement privacy controls as part of Reddit's privacy program.
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- We are looking for a senior attorney to join our growing team and manage the legal team's privacy function, oversee our privacy compliance program, and counsel our privacy compliance platform.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
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