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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
We are looking for a senior privacy and regulatory compliance attorney with 10+ years of legal experience, preferably with 5+ years in-house, with experience managing a privacy compliance program, responding to informal and formal regulatory inquiries, and building regulatory relationships. A successful candidate is passionate about privacy and even more passionate about collaborating with cross-functional colleagues to create a best-in-class compliance program in a fast-moving environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Support Reddit’s global privacy compliance program. Provide advice and counsel to ensure Reddit meets its legal obligations and legal requirements under US, EU and other applicable 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 product and technical teams to design and implement privacy controls as part of Reddit’s privacy program.
- Manage government and regulator discussions, negotiations, and disclosures on compliance readiness efforts.
- Be a 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.
- 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.
- 10+ years of legal experience, at a top law firm or in house, 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.
- Program/project management skills, including the ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects
- Nimble, proactive and an excellent communicator. You are 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.
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:
$266,000—$372,400 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 ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.
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