Our client, a global fintech leader, is looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product Privacy to help embed privacy into their AI-driven products and scale compliance through playbooks and processes. Supporting key business products and regulated entities, this role requires a strategic, hands-on legal partner who can navigate complex privacy laws across international markets. The ideal candidate has significant experience, including both firm and in-house roles, and a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach—smart, collaborative, and solutions-oriented. This hybrid role is based in Atlanta, and open to licensed attorneys with a growth mindset.
Responsibilities
- Partners with senior attorneys to provide practical advice to our business teams on a wide-array of matters related to AI in our products and services
- Understands and aligns multiple points of view to arrive at a shared vision for how privacy should be incorporated into products
- Drives the stakeholder engagement plan to create impactful results on privacy issues
- Drives the privacy aspects of company's money, lending, and capital businesses as well as the product teams through development of tools, playbooks and processes that create efficiencies and confidence in our program
- Drives privacy reviews related to the company's money, lending, and capital businesses across our product and operations, and tech teams
- Conducts and documents privacy impact assessments, keeping track of product modifications and enhancements enabling uses of personal information
- Establishes and builds relationships with key stakeholders including with product management, business development, engineering, design, marketing, and compliance and operations teams
- Contributes toward the communication of the Privacy Team’s mission and vision to internal partners and stakeholders
- Develops solutions to improve internal processes and practices supporting the Privacy program
- Learns and grows as part of a collaborative and diverse Privacy Team
- Significant experience and strong working knowledge of relevant data privacy laws in the US (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, CPA, GLBA, etc.) and abroad (e.g., ePrivacy Directive, EU AI Act, GDPR, PIPEDA, etc.)
- The ability to coordinate cross-functionally, and with outside counsel in domestic and international markets, on issues related to data privacy, product design and functionality, transactional issues, and other technology initiatives.
- Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into forward-looking and actionable policies, frameworks and guidelines.
- Experience in data analytics and data science, and identifying the privacy-related considerations for each considered a strong asset
- Background in technology or engineering
- Ability to engage in and document detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess global privacy and other legal risks
- A learning mindset and comfort operating in the gray
- Experience providing legal support in the private sector and at a law firm
- Ability to communicate with business partners about regulatory obligations, risk management processes and effect change
- Concise and efficient communicator
- Experience in-house preferred
- JD and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. State Bar
- IAPP Privacy certification (CIPP or CIPT) preferred, but not required