Description:

We're looking for an Associate General Counsel to join the Safety & Law Enforcement Legal team! The team provides critical support to Snap's Trust & Safety (T&S), Content Moderation, Law Enforcement Operations (LEO), Product, Spam & Abuse (S&A), Engineering, Communications, and Policy teams relating to investigation and enforcement of Community Guidelines and Terms of Service violations, compliance with content moderation and reporting obligations, regulatory engagement, response to law enforcement requests, and cross-functional platform-safety initiatives.

The team:

supports Snap's T&S and S&A teams in connection with the detection, investigation, and enforcement of Community Guidelines and Terms of Service violations;
works with Snap's LEO team to help ensure Snap meets its obligations to produce user data to governments while adhering to relevant laws and protecting user privacy;
partners across our Legal, Policy, Product, and Safety Operations teams to support regulatory compliance, inquiries, and engagement, and influence Snapchat product safety; and
collaborates with our Privacy & Product Legal, Policy, Engineering, Communications, and other internal partner teams to provide guidance and develop policies and tools that enable Snap to meet increasingly sophisticated and ever-shifting regulatory and legislative requirements, as well as contribute to a range of cross-functional safety initiatives and prepare external messaging.

What You'll Do:
You'll lead Safety Legal's compliance with third-party (including government) requests for user data and support for the LEO team. In this role, you will:

Support the LEO team on laws and Snap policies governing responses to governmental requests for user data, and collaborate on outreach to government authorities.
Work cross-functionally with teams across the company — including Product, Engineering, and others in Legal — on compliance- and safety-related tooling.
Work with outside counsel to defend against improper attempts to obtain user data, including by civil and criminal litigants.
Partner with the Policy team on legislative proposals and developments impacting user safety, data disclosure, and outreach to government authorities.
Support the Policy, LEO, T&S, and Communications teams in responding to inquiries from legislators, regulators, law enforcement, and the press.

Advise the T&S, Product, S&A, and Engineering teams on matters relating to compliance with obligations under platform safety and content regulations (e.g., the EU Digital Services Act, the UK Online Safety Act, and U.S. state and federal laws); and the enforcement of Snap's Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.
Collaborate with the T&S team on investigations of Community Guidelines violations and advise regarding potential referrals to law enforcement.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

A phenomenal teammate with demonstrated ability to work closely with others in a manner consistent with Snap's values.
Self-starter who is eager to learn and extremely detail-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, think creatively, and accommodate tight deadlines.
Proven ability to manage key initiatives, working closely with multiple stakeholders to drive projects to successful completion.
Excellent legal and business judgment, as well as outstanding writing, strategic-thinking, and analytical skills.
Comfort with operating in a fast-paced environment and working on ground-breaking legal and policy matters in an ever-changing legal, policy, and factual landscape.

Minimum Qualifications:

J.D. from an accredited university.
Active membership in at least one state bar.
8+ years of proven experience advising clients, conducting legal research, and analyzing complex statutory requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience as a criminal prosecutor, or in-house or at a law firm advising technology companies on law enforcement response, trust and safety, product safety, and related matters.
Experience conducting criminal investigations into child sexual exploitation and investigating Terms of Service/Community Guidelines violations would also be valuable.
Preferred locations are Washington, D.C. and Santa Monica, CA.