Associate General Counsel, Privacy and Product
Glean Technologies - Palo Alto, CA
posted 9 days ago
About the position
Glean is looking for a strategic, passionate, and experienced Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy to join our team. This role, reporting into our Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, will be responsible for all of our privacy and product counseling legal work for Glean's growing business. You will be a pivotal player in our company's growth, responsible for identifying, analyzing and mitigating risk and enabling the success of our product and our customers. You will collaborate closely with our leadership to deeply understand our overarching business objectives and provide top notch legal advice. This role is an Individual Contributor role at this time, with the potential for building out a team as Glean scales.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the company's go-to expert and resource on privacy and product counseling.
- Advise product, engineering, operations, and marketing teams on meeting strategic objectives while complying with laws, regulations, best practices, and customer requirements.
- Lead Glean's privacy compliance program, including data-mapping, risk registers, and documentation of the company's current processes and areas of focus.
- Build the product and privacy counseling function within the legal team, including processes and operations.
- Design, implement, and iterate on policies, processes, and procedures to improve the legal team's engagement model with the product and engineering organizations.
- Work closely with Glean's CISO and security team on shared goals and objectives.
- Support the Go-to-Market teams in escalated customer questions related to privacy.
- Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for Glean's employees and leadership.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments, think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for and minimize risks that may arise in the future.
Requirements
- JD and a member of a relevant U.S. state bar in good standing, with ability to obtain status as a registered in-house counsel with the California bar if required.
- At least 8+ years of law firm and in-house experience, ideally at a fast-paced technology organization.
- Expertise in global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience counseling technology product teams.
- An ability to translate between business and technical risk and communicate clearly to business and technical constituencies.
- Interest and aptitude for privacy thought leadership on social, industry channels and more.
- Skilled at providing clear, actionable advice that aligns with both business objectives and legal best practices.
- A track record of fostering trust-based relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and delivering exceptional client service.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with a proactive and results-oriented approach to problem-solving.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Healthcare
- Flexible work environment and time-off policy
- 401k
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development opportunities
- Company events
- Free meals
