At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Lyft is hiring a bright, energetic, and self-motivated attorney to join the Product & Commercial Legal team. As counsel, you will strengthen and scale Lyft’s privacy practices and compliance as a key member of our privacy legal function. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of Lyft’s global expansion within an evolving industry.
Responsibilities:
- Provide specialist advice on all aspects of global privacy law and regulation, including data protection, data retention, and data breach rules
- Review new initiatives for privacy by design considerations and launch readiness
- Draft and negotiate privacy terms in legal agreements
- Support aspects of Lyft’s privacy compliance programs, including impact assessments, certifications, program assessments and audits, regulatory compliance projects, data subject requests, training, and policy development
- Work with information security colleagues and other stakeholders to manage legal aspects of incident response
- Collaborate with and support other key departments within Lyft (e.g., Product, Privacy Engineering, Information Security, Employment/People, Public Policy, Communications)
- Track and advise on new and evolving privacy and data laws and regulations
- Support company engagement with government, industry, and consumer groups on privacy issues
Experience & Skills:
- 5+ years of legal experience working in a leading law firm and/or in-house counseling in data privacy or information security issues (experience in a tech company is a plus)
- Subject matter expertise across the privacy law spectrum (e.g., GDPR, CPRA, PIPEDA, data breach requirements). CIPP or similar certification is a plus.
- Legally entitled to practice law in Canada and member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario
- Experience working on contracts and commercial transactions, especially data processing agreements
- Excellent issue-spotting skills, attention to detail, problem-solving capabilities, and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well and adapt in a dynamic, high-pressure environment
- Experience as a project manager, including working with engineering and product teams to deliver cross-functional results
- Ability to think creatively and comfort with working in new and developing fields and technologies
- Self-motivated with good business judgment
Benefits:
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan to help save for your future
- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
- Subsidized commuter benefits