Description:
Your Impact:As A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Head of Product and Privacy Legal, you will leverage your experience and expertise to support and accelerate A Free Online Writing Assistant Company next era of growth. This role will be a crucial partner to A Free Online Writing Assistant Company executive team and team members across the business. You and your team will take on critical and high-profile product, policy, and privacy counseling projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership at the intersection of law, business, policy, and technology.
In this role, you will:
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team responsible for being the go-to counsel and partner for teams focused on novel product and technology development and addressing new and evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements across A Free Online Writing Assistant Company product offerings.
- Act as the lead business partner and escalation point for all product legal requests.
- Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level to identify and address product, regulatory, privacy, and other legal risks and mitigations.
- Manage A Free Online Writing Assistant Company IP portfolio, including counseling on trademarks, branding, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and open source.
- Stay abreast of, assess, and communicate across the company on rapidly developing trends in global data privacy, artificial intelligence, LLMs, data security, and compliance laws and regulations.
- Identify, design, and implement processes that support and keep pace with product innovations while ensuring compliance and internal risk tolerance.
- Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk.
- Translate between legal frameworks and technical details to help develop practical solutions considering both aspects while collaborating successfully with stakeholders.
- Engage with external stakeholders, including regulatory authorities and industry groups, to advocate for favorable policy frameworks.
- Be a cross-functional leader and ensure our work is cohesive, thoughtfully crafted, and executed.
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at A Free Online Writing Assistant Company: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
- Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco and potentially other hubs 4 weeks per quarter.
- Has extensive experience (10+ years) in product counseling, including privacy, data protection, intellectual property, regulatory, and consumer protection, preferably within the SaaS and/or AI domains, with a minimum of 4 years as a manager.
- Has experience supporting product management, security, and engineering business partners at an innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders.
- Brings a strong understanding of industry regulations, policy frameworks, and laws.
- Shows a track record of managing, developing, and empowering teams.
- Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward.
- Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
- Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.
- Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- A connected team: A Free Online Writing Assistant Company builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
