Privacy Legal Counsel
About The Position
At Aristocrat, the Privacy Legal Counsel supports product development, data protection, and player experiences by helping ensure gaming products meet privacy and data protection standards. The role provides embedded legal counsel to product and engineering teams throughout the game lifecycle, including on privacy-by-design, new features involving player data, and regulatory compliance. The position advises on privacy requirements across consumer-facing gaming products and services, including data use in free-to-play models, children’s and teens’ privacy, virtual economies, telemetry, behavioral data, analytics, advertising, and monetization. It also supports privacy risk assessments, third-party integrations, data-sharing arrangements, and cross-border data transfers. The counsel works with GIS, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other teams on user protections and platform obligations.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in the US with at least 3 years of post-qualification experience (or equivalent).
- Strong foundation in privacy and data protection law, including CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA, COPPA, CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and UK GDPR.
- Experience advising on consumer-facing digital products or platforms, ideally in a product counseling role.
- Demonstrated ability to embed legal advice into product development processes.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-legal teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the gaming industry.
- Familiarity with ad tech, analytics, and data monetization models.
- Experience developing solutions involving children’s data, age verification, or youth safeguarding frameworks, such as Age Appropriate Design Code considerations.
- Privacy certification or specialization, such as CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or CIPM.
- In-house experience in a fast-paced technology or gaming environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide embedded legal support to product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default across the game lifecycle.
- Advise on the development and launch of features involving player data, personalization, live operations, and online services.
- Conduct and guide Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and privacy risk assessments.
- Guide adherence to GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy directives, and applicable European privacy regulations.
- Interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into practical product guidance.
- Monitor and advise on forthcoming US, EU, and UK developments, including the Digital Services Act, AI-related regulation, and children’s data rules.
- Counsel on data use in free-to-play models, including analytics, advertising, monetization, and player engagement features.
- Advise on children’s and teens’ privacy, age-appropriate design, parental controls, and profiling restrictions.
- Support the use of virtual economies, telemetry, and behavioral data while managing regulatory risk.
- Evaluate third-party integrations, including analytics, advertising networks, and SDKs, and related data-sharing agreements.
- Draft and negotiate data protection clauses, data processing agreements, and cross-border transfer mechanisms such as SCCs and the UK IDTA.
- Work cross-functionally with GIS, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other teams on user protections and platform obligations.
Benefits
- Depending on role and location, potential eligibility for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
