Remote Deputy General Counsel, Product & Privacy

Summary

Join our rapidly growing company as Deputy General Counsel and serve in a key leadership capacity on both the Legal team at the broader Apollo.io leadership team. As a rapidly scaling company, you will have particular skill and aptitude for operationalizing key processes and building scalable solutions for continued success of Legal initiatives at Apollo.

Requirements

• JD and a member of a relevant U.S. state bar in good standing, with ability to obtain status as a registered in-house counsel with the California bar if required
• At least 8+ years of law firm and in-house experience
• Demonstrated experience counseling technology product teams, especially those working B2B with significant privacy-related aspects to their products and operations
• Prior experience managing team and the ability to go both low and high in terms of acting as both an individual contributor and a leader
• Deep subject matter expertise and prior work counseling on global privacy compliance and emerging regulations in privacy and related fields such as MarTech and AdTech
• Demonstrated experience counseling on intellectual property issues related to data use
• Experience managing and developing other attorneys and analysts and leading a product counseling and/or privacy compliance function, particularly from an operational and process lens
• An ability to translate between business and technical risk and communicate clearly to business and technical constituencies
• A belief and practice that no task is too big or too small
• Self-initiative that drives a desire for impact and achievement
• A pragmatic approach to getting things and ability to prioritize and re-prioritize as needed
• Builder-mentality - a roll-up your sleeves attitude to tackle with a collaborative, low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization
• Comfort with fast-paced environments
• A sense of humor and, above all else, a positive attitude

Responsibilities

• Be the company’s go-to privacy expert and resource on all things privacy and product as we scale
• Manage a team of privacy and product counsel and privacy analysts and compliance professionals
• Advise product, engineering, operations, and marketing teams on meeting strategic objectives while complying with laws, regulations, best practices, and customer requirements
• Build the product and privacy counseling function within the Apollo legal team, including processes and operations, working closely with product leadership and product pods in developing best-in-class methods for legal and privacy review of our product development process
• Build and maintain a privacy compliance program that scales to meet changing global regulations
• Design, implement, and iterate on policies, processes, and procedures to improve the legal team’s engagement model with the product and engineering organizations
• Work closely with Apollo’s security team on shared goals and objectives
• Support the commercial legal function and the go-to-market teams in escalated privacy-related contracting questions and help enable the commercial legal function with up-to-date templates and strategies as it relates to privacy
• Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for product and business teams
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments, think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for and minimize risks that may arise in the future
• Serve as a general deputy for all matters facing the Legal team, able and willing to advise on a broader remit as business needs require

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing litigation and/or regulatory enforcement
• A familiarity and comfort with the latest in privacy software and privacy technology
• Interest and aptitude for privacy thought leadership on social, industry channels and more
• Prior experience with international compliance issues more broadly