TruLegal is representing a global name in progressive financial technology seeking a Privacy and Product Counsel to support high-impact initiatives across its consumer and enterprise product lines. This is a product and business enablement role, designed to find creative ways to add value through dynamic and innovative uses of data. This is a highly collaborative opportunity, best suited for someone who likes to find ways to say "yes" to the business and to influence cutting-edge financial products, making thoughtful risk-based decisions, and helping scale privacy best practices within a mission-driven organization committed to earning and protecting customer trust. Candidates must be licensed attorneys and willing to be hybrid at a client office, with a strong preference for those in San Diego or the Bay Area. Responsibilities:
- Provide practical, product-focused counseling to teams building consumer and SMB experiences across tax, money, mid-market, and Business Services
- Embed privacy into product development by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Security, and Marketing from early concept through launch
- Advise on privacy-by-design controls including data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and customer choice
- Support privacy requirements tied to tax and financial data handling, including advising on tax return information confidentiality (e.g., IRC §7216 and related rules) and related internal governance expectations
- Help teams navigate privacy implications of sensitive data, identity verification, and customer support/service journeys that touch regulated datasets
- Counsel on customer-facing disclosures and UX patterns (e.g., just-in-time notices, consent flows, preference centers, permissioning, and in-product education) to ensure experiences are clear, consistent, and defensible, and to reduce “dark pattern” risk
- Conduct and document privacy impact assessments and provide launch guidance, including risk framing, mitigations, and durable decision records
- Support data sharing and ecosystem questions (first/third-party, vendors, partners, internal platform services), including governance and contractual expectations (in partnership with commercial counsel as needed)
- Build and improve scalable tools, templates, playbooks, intake paths, and training, to help product teams move faster with confidence
- Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders and drive alignment across competing points of view to reach practical outcomes
- Contribute toward the communication of the Privacy Team’s mission and vision to internal partners and stakeholders
- Learn and grow as part of a collaborative and diverse Privacy Team
Qualifications
- Demonstrated relevant legal experience (in-house and/or at a law firm)
- Strong working knowledge of relevant data privacy laws in the US (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, other state privacy laws, GLBA, etc.)
- 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
- Ability to engage in and document detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess privacy and other legal risks
- A learning mindset and comfort operating in the gray
- Ability to communicate with business partners about regulatory obligations, risk management processes and drive change
- Concise and efficient communicator
Expected salary for this role is $180,000 - $240,000, commensurate with experience, training, skills, qualifications, and other market factors. #LI-DNI Job ID: 7568