VP, Product Privacy & AI Legal

Summary

Join HubSpot’s Legal team as the Vice President, Product Privacy & AI Legal, leading legal strategy across the global product, privacy, AI, and cybersecurity ecosystem. This pivotal role reports to the Chief Legal Officer and requires partnering with product, engineering, design, and security teams to ensure compliant and customer-trusted product development and launch. You will be responsible for simplifying complex legal frameworks, embedding customer trust in product design, and building a scalable legal operating model for an AI-first future. The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of legal experience in product counseling, privacy law, and emerging tech, expertise in relevant regulations, and a proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders. This position offers a chance to shape responsible AI innovation and build a high-performing legal team.

Requirements

• 15+ years of legal experience spanning product counseling, privacy law, and emerging tech—preferably in fast-paced SaaS or AI-native companies
• Expertise in GDPR, CCPA, AI law (including model governance and transparency), copyright (esp. generative content), and cybersecurity
• Proven success embedding legal into the product lifecycle—from early roadmap discussions to post-launch risk reviews
• Ability to simplify complex, evolving legal frameworks into guidance that accelerates—not slows—product delivery
• Strategic operator with a systems-thinking mindset; you’ve built scalable legal operations, not just made case-by-case decisions
• Inspirational team leader with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and scaling diverse, high-performing legal teams
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence cross-functional and C-level stakeholders
• High integrity, high curiosity, and high clarity—you move confidently through ambiguity with sound judgment and a bias for action
• JD and active bar membership required

Responsibilities

• Be the Simplifier-in-Chief
• Define the Standard. Establish HubSpot’s point of view on AI and data privacy—transparent enough for customers to trust, and intuitive enough for any HubSpotter to speak to and act on
• Clarify the Gray. Translate fast-moving legal uncertainties—like LLM prompt/output handling, CRM data enrichment, and AI-generated content attribution—into clear, consistent positions
• Scale the Message. Equip GTM and customer-facing teams with the confidence to talk openly about how we use AI and data—making trust an advantage in every conversation
• Keep It Thought-Leading. Interpret and evolve HubSpot’s positions in light of global regulation with foresight and practicality—ensuring we stay ahead of the curve, not stuck in it
• Be the Trusted Guide Behind Every Bold Bet
• Start with Trust. Make customer trust a default setting by embedding privacy, compliance, and clarity into the foundation of our AI-first innovation
• Earn Influence, Don’t Impose It. Build durable partnerships and engagement models by showing up with solutions, not red tape—helping teams make smart tradeoffs and ship what matters, faster
• Shape the Build. Partner early with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to design features that balance velocity, scale, and responsible innovation—from personalization to enrichment to automation
• Enable at Scale. Create tools, playbooks, and frameworks that empower teams to move fast with confidence—so legal is a trusted enabler, not a blocker
• Reimagine Legal for an AI-First Future
• Design for Leverage. Build a legal operating model that uses automation, intelligent workflows, and self-service tools to streamline how teams access legal support—fewer bottlenecks and backlogs
• Measure What Matters. Define and track performance metrics that make Legal accountable to the business—like cycle times, unblock rates, and privacy or risk health scores
• Scale with Smart Defaults. Embed privacy-by-design and responsible AI practices directly into how features are scoped, reviewed, and launched—so compliance is the default, not an afterthought
• Build a Team That Scales with the Business—and Shapes What’s Next
• Structure for Scale. Evolve the structure, roles, and responsibilities across the team to support speed, clarity, and depth—aligned to how HubSpot builds, ships, and grows
• Hire for What’s Next. Attract, develop and retain top legal talent in a competitive market—people who think like operators, communicate like product managers, and deliver business impact
• Lead with Culture. Foster a high-performing, inclusive team where customer obsession, agility and ownership are the norm—and legal is seen as a growth enabler, not just a risk manager

Preferred Qualifications

CIPP, CIPM, CISSP, or similar certifications

Benefits

• Annual Cash Compensation Range: $274,800 — $467,200 USD
• HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay
• Remote work
• Flexible hours