TRM Labs

Legal Counsel - Privacy

United States

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About the role

The Financial Times recently recognized the team as one of the "Most Innovative In-House Legal Teams" in North America, and the team is led by TRM's CLO, a former senior DOJ official.
AI tool adoption is a shared expectation - the team actively uses the Claude suite and similar tools to operate with the leverage of a much larger team.
The team is distributed across US time zones with core overlap during standard business hours; primary communication is async-first via Slack, with key decisions documented in Notion - distributed, not distant.

BUILD A SAFER WORLD.
TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks.
Legal Counsel, Privacy will own how TRM keeps Orion compliant with privacy and data-protection laws around the world, partnering directly with Product, Engineering, and GTM so the company can expand into new markets without slowing down.
Embed privacy-by-design into Orion's development lifecycle, partnering with Engineering to resolve data-flow and retention questions before they become launch blockers.
Lead and respond to data subject rights requests (DSARs) in coordination with Engineering and Customer Success.
Build and maintain the privacy program's core artifacts - records of processing, DPIA templates, and breach-response playbooks - using AI-assisted workflows so the program scales without adding headcount.
Support the CLO and AGC with clear, business-ready guidance that helps leadership make faster, better-informed decisions on privacy risk.
We are building a safer world.
This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined.

4+ years of privacy and data-protection legal experience, with hands-on work applying GDPR and US state privacy laws to a technology product.
Familiarity with cross-border transfer mechanisms (SCCs, transfer impact assessments, adequacy analysis).
Comfort operating with ownership and limited oversight in a fast-moving environment.
Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
After that period, your data is deleted unless a different retention period is required or permitted by law.

TRM Legal is a lean, high-trust team that operates with high ownership and minimal hierarchy; each counsel owns their domain and is expected to advise proactively.
Legal partners with Product, Engineering, and GTM as a business accelerator, not a bottleneck; you will be in the room shaping decisions early, not looped in after the fact.
Team Operating Rhythms:
Weekly Legal team sync for cross-functional coordination; regular 1:1s with the AGC for prioritization and privacy program advisory.
TRM operates a high-transparency culture - program status and obligations are tracked in shared workspaces accessible to partner teams.
Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
Within the first 30 days, complete a full privacy assessment of an Orion feature and give Engineering a clear, actionable path to ship on schedule.
Within 60 days, stand up reusable DPIA and records-of-processing templates that cut time-to-first-draft on privacy artifacts by more than half.
Within 90 days, deliver a jurisdiction-readiness analysis that unblocks Orion's expansion into a new market.
That promise shows up in how we work every day.

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