Legal Counsel, Privacy and Consumer Protection

Rush Street Interactive Inc.•Bogota, NJ

61d•Hybrid

About The Position

Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We're building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game. Highly motivated lawyer to join our growing legal team as Legal Counsel, Privacy and Consumer Protection. We are looking for a dynamic lawyer to lead and manage privacy, data protection, and consumer protection matters, negotiate and draft data privacy, consumer protection and intellectual property aspects of commercial contracts supporting Colombia, Mexico, Peru and other potential LatAm Jurisdictions including product development, operations, marketing, finance, and business development teams. Experience with issues pertaining to SaaS, PaaS, data privacy, cloud data ecosystems, vendor management, procurement of tools and services, consumer protection, commercial law, and revenue recognition is required. You should be excited to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment as part of a cross-functional group of professionals and have strong communication skills, as you will work daily with senior management and participate in high-level policy discussions.

Requirements

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent professional qualification
7+ years of legal experience handling privacy and consumer protection matters in house for a technology company or at a law firm where you worked extensively with technology companies as clients.
Experience with laws in Latin American countries (specifically Colombia, Mexico and Peru).
A solid understanding of commercial law in civil law jurisdictions.
Passion for delivering excellence.
Ability to work proactively, independently, and reliably under tight timeframes in a fast-paced environment.
Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage conflicting priorities efficiently.
Experience with supporting people/teams remotely.
Must speak and write fluently in Spanish and English (IELTS C1).
Able to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

Lead the implementation of RSI's global privacy program, including developing, improving and maintenance of the privacy frameworks for Latin America to ensure we meet our obligations in jurisdictions where our company operates.
Design, manage, and continuously update our LatAm privacy and data protection program, including maintaining the applicable privacy policies and procedures, the data protection, data inventories, registering the company databases with local authorities, responding to data subject requests, conducting risk assessments, and communicating with privacy authorities as needed.
Maintain subject matter expertise for Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and other LatAm Jurisdictions' privacy and data protection laws where our company operates, and ensure that global policies are adapted and implemented in line with local requirements.
Serve as the company's Data Protection Officer (DPO) for Colombia, communicating with privacy authorities as needed and act as the primary point of contact for local data protection authorities.
Negotiate and draft data privacy, intellectual property, and technology protection provisions of commercial contracts and other agreements.
Collaborate closely with the other business functions on commercial transactions, technology, and vendor agreements.
Respond to administrative and jurisdictional requests, including Petition Rights and Tutelas, working collaboratively with other teams such as Customer Service and Fraud & Payments.
Provide legal guidance on how local privacy laws affect business processes
Assist with LatAm brand protection & enforcement matters, including trademarks, investigating infringement matters, drafting cease & desist letters and related counseling.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders.
Communicate with outside legal counsel, creating relations of trust.
Work collaboratively across the Legal Department which is based in the United States, Colombia, and Peru on a variety of cross-functional initiatives, supporting the other members of the LatAm legal team in a variety of legal matters.
Handle other issues and projects that arise in growing in-house legal department.