VP, Product, Privacy & Platform

The Knot Worldwide • New York, NY

10h • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Global Legal team is a collaborative, solutions driven group supporting innovative work across multiple jurisdictions, including marketplaces, eCommerce, and AdTech. We anticipate risk, enable growth, and position the business for long term success. We are seeking an experienced, business-minded player coach to lead our Product, Privacy & Platform legal function, reporting to the Chief Legal Officer. You will manage a small team of attorneys and legal professionals while scaling impact through strong processes and operational discipline. This global role is the senior legal partner to Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and InfoSec, advising on product and privacy strategy, platform evolution, and international expansion. You will establish the global legal risk framework for product and privacy development and marketplace operations, partnering with executive and senior leadership to define risk thresholds that enable smart, responsible growth. You will serve as a trusted decision maker on complex launches and escalations, focused on solving hard problems in ways that unlock innovation while protecting the platform and our community.
This role is critical during a period of accelerated product innovation, AI adoption, and platform expansion. You will help the company move faster with confidence by embedding legal early in development, modernizing review processes, and enabling responsible experimentation at scale.
We are looking for a leader who leans in, works through complexity, and is energized by finding creative, practical solutions that both manage risk and advance business goals. This role is not about saying no. It is about helping the company move forward with clarity and conviction while elevating and empowering the talented subject matter experts across the team.
If you are motivated by building, problem solving, and helping a global marketplace grow responsibly at scale, we would love to meet you.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant experience, including significant in house marketplace or consumer technology experience and 7+ years directly supporting product, engineering, data, and security teams.
• Broad and sophisticated understanding of global platform, privacy, consumer protection, competition, and emerging technology regulatory frameworks, with sound judgment on risk tradeoffs and when to engage local counsel.
• Executive presence and credibility with senior product, engineering, and business leaders, with the ability to influence, align stakeholders, and drive decisions in complex, fast moving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands on problem solving with strategic leadership, operating comfortably at both the detailed and executive levels.
• Marketplace fluency, with deep appreciation for the realities of two sided platforms, including payments, trust and safety, content moderation, and growth dynamics.
• Experience engaging constructively with regulatory authorities and guiding organizations through compliance readiness and regulatory change.
• High ownership mindset, strong work ethic, and a reputation for leaning into complex, high stakes challenges alongside the business.
• Inclusive, high accountability leader who develops talent, builds operational rigor, and creates an environment where subject matter experts are empowered and team members can do the best work of their careers.
• J.D. or international equivalent and bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, or eligible for in house counsel registration in New York.

Nice To Haves

• Fluency in Spanish or strong professional proficiency is a significant plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the product and privacy legal front door, partnering from PRD through launch to identify risk early and develop practical, creative solutions that enable product velocity while protecting the platform and community.
• Lead legal strategy for global platform, intermediary liability, online safety, consumer protection, and competition regimes, translating evolving regulation into clear, business enabling guidance for product and operational teams, and oversee preparedness and response for any inquiries or investigations by relevant U.S. and international authorities.
• Set strategy and provide executive oversight for the global privacy program, including DPIAs, DSARs, data transfers, consent frameworks, vendor governance, and regulatory engagement, empowering subject matter experts to operate and scale best in class processes while embedding privacy by design across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Security.
• Provide executive oversight of the global data incident governance framework, directing legal response to significant security events, advising executive leadership and the Board as appropriate, overseeing regulatory engagement, and institutionalizing preparedness through playbooks, training, and cross functional tabletop exercises.
• Lead legal oversight of AI and data governance in a way that supports responsible innovation, translating emerging global AI regulation into practical, product facing guidance. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape responsible AI features from conception through launch, establish review standards for model and data use, and align innovation with regulatory and user trust expectations.
• Lead and evolve platform governance and policy architecture, including user terms, privacy disclosures, and enforcement frameworks in close partnership with Trust and Safety and internal subject matter experts.
• Oversee strategic technology and data transactions, structuring and negotiating high impact agreements while building scalable playbooks and guidance in partnership with commercial and domain experts.
• Remain hands on with the most novel and high impact initiatives while building and developing a high performing team. Establish scope, SLAs, metrics, intake systems, and operational dashboards to scale impact and build a culture of empowered subject matter ownership within a clear strategic framework.

Benefits

• We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter, both in and out of the office.. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree