Senior Counsel, Privacy & Product

Faire•San Francisco, CA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

Faire is hiring a Senior Counsel, Privacy & Product to help our teams build and ship a global wholesale marketplace that handles data thoughtfully. This role is ideal for a privacy expert who also loves to work directly with product teams and advise on a range of legal topics. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, you will partner closely with our product and engineering teams, helping them craft practical solutions to navigate legal complexity. You will also serve as Faire Legal’s in-house privacy and data expert and play a pivotal role in the development of Faire’s data governance program, advising on emerging privacy obligations and shaping the frameworks, processes, and playbooks that protect our data at scale.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and an active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
5+ years of legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or both, including substantive privacy work
Deep expertise in global privacy law, including EU and UK GDPR, CCPA and other state laws, and emerging frameworks
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to provide risk-calibrated and solution-focused advice to product and engineering teams
Scrappy and resourceful – when something needs to get done, you find a way to make it happen

Nice To Haves

Experience counseling advertising product teams and/or online marketplaces is a plus
Experience with litigation or regulator engagement is a plus
Actively experimenting with AI in legal work, and excited to go deeper

Responsibilities

Partner directly with Faire’s engineering, product, data, and design teams to provide practical legal guidance—across a wide range of legal domains—on product development and go-to-market strategy
Act as a senior legal advisor to the business on data governance issues, including privacy, data use, information security, retention and deletion, and cross-border data flows
Build and mature Faire’s data governance program, designing frameworks and processes, supporting implementation, and driving improvements as we learn what works
Track developments in global privacy laws and translate them into actionable guidance for the business
Draft and maintain privacy policies, notices, standards, playbooks, and training that scale good decision-making across the company