OpenTable
Senior Counsel, Privacy & Product (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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About the role
- Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most - their team, their guests, and their bottom line - while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.
- About the job OpenTable is looking for a highly motivated, practical, and business-oriented Senior Counsel, Privacy & Product to join our Legal team.
- That's why OpenTable has adopted a hybrid workplace model.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary legal partner to OpenTable's Product, Engineering, Security, Commercial, Partnerships, and Marketing teams, providing end-to-end counseling on new products, features, data uses, integrations, consumer experiences, and other strategic initiatives.
- Serve as Deputy Privacy Officer for OpenTable, helping lead and operationalize OpenTable's global privacy program and serving as a key liaison with BHI on privacy strategy, governance, regulatory developments, and group-wide privacy initiatives.
- Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements and embed privacy-by-design principles into OpenTable's products and operations, including counseling on data collection, use, sharing, retention, consent, personalization, and consumer rights.
- Provide strategic legal guidance on the development, deployment, procurement, and use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, including generative AI and AI-powered product features, and help develop scalable AI governance frameworks as the regulatory landscape evolves.
- Partner closely with OpenTable's Information Security team on cybersecurity and data security matters, including product and vendor security risk, security requirements, incident response, potential data breaches, regulatory obligations, and remediation.
- and develop scalable legal processes, policies, playbooks, and disclosures that enable the business to innovate responsibly.
- Identify and address emerging product, privacy, AI, security, consumer protection, and regulatory risks; draft and negotiate related agreements and terms; and develop scalable legal processes, policies, playbooks, and disclosures that enable the business to innovate responsibly.
Requirements
- Significant experience providing product counseling, including partnering directly with Product and Engineering teams on new products, features, data uses, and technology initiatives from development through launch.
- Experience advising on information security and cybersecurity matters, including security requirements, incident response, and related regulatory obligations.
- Strong judgment, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with demonstrated ability to assess risk, navigate ambiguity, and provide practical advice to cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
Nice to have
- Experience working within a complex global organization or corporate group and partnering effectively with enterprise-level legal, privacy, security, compliance, or governance functions.
- CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, AIGP, or similar privacy or AI certification preferred.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
Compensation
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
Company info
- Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it.
- You'll also be part of a global team that includes and its portfolio of metasearch brands.
- Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.
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