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We are looking for a senior attorney to join our growing team and manage the legal team’s privacy compliance function. The successful candidate is passionate about privacy and even more passionate about process and scale! You love challenges, building and collaborating with internal teams to create best in class compliance programs in a fast moving environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage the Legal team’s support of Reddit global privacy compliance program. Provide advice and counsel to ensure Reddit meets its legal obligations and legal requirements under US, EU and other application legal frameworks.
- Implement and maintain external and internal privacy and legal related policies and processes in line with industry-standard frameworks. Partner with and advise the product and technical teams to design and implement privacy controls as part of Reddit’s privacy program.
- Be the lead legal subject matter expert for privacy and data protection, ensuring consistency in privacy counseling across the legal team, in line with Reddit’s user centric approach to privacy. Provide expert advice on all aspects of data protection law.
- Partner with and advise technical teams to investigate potential privacy and security issues and ensure compliance with applicable law.
- Be a strategic, proactive and pragmatic legal partner and collaborator with high EQ.
- Be an evangelist across the company and externally for Reddit’s privacy focused approach.
What We’re Looking For:
- Law degree (JD, LLB, LLM, etc.). You are locally licensed in your jurisdiction, and ideally you have legal experience in multiple jurisdictions.
- 12+ years of post law school experience with 5+ years of in-house privacy compliance experience.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and managing a successful privacy compliance program in a fast paced, product forward environment.
- Experience with global privacy laws and industry guidelines, especially including those relevant for tech platforms like Reddit.
- Strong legal drafting and writing skills and a penchant for concise, plain English writing.
- Experience responding to and partnering with regulators, particularly in Europe.
- Experience managing or mentoring legal team members in a dynamic, inclusive environment.
- Nimble, fast moving, proactive and an excellent communicator. You're used to collaborating effectively across time zones and have the ability to build strong relationships with engineers, product managers, legal colleagues and other internal stakeholders at all levels of the business.
- You love and use Reddit as a platform!
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$293,300—$410,600 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].
What We Do
Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.
Why Work With Us
At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.
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