Remote Legal Director

Summary

Join our growing team as a senior attorney to manage the legal team's privacy compliance function and provide advice on US, EU, and other applicable law frameworks.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve