Description:
A Financial Services Company Privacy & Regulatory Counsel serve a critical role in ensuring our partners not only understand and internalize our privacy and regulatory obligations, but also in building and tailoring products and features that account for the ever-evolving regulatory landscape and A Financial Services Company business goals and strategies. As Privacy & Regulatory Counsel, you will collaborate with key business, legal, and compliance stakeholders to craft cutting-edge and pragmatic privacy/regulatory programs and solutions. You will also engage in horizon scanning and regulation-monitoring to help us to anticipate and account for evolving and forthcoming rules and laws. The Privacy & Regulatory Counsel role is highly collaborative and requires a passion for learning new areas, digestible communication, team work, and problem-solving.Responsibilities:
- Closely collaborate with Plaid's Privacy & Regulatory Counsel on all advice and work related to privacy and regulatory issues and programs
- Partner collaboratively with Product Counsel and their business counterparts to advise on privacy/regulatory issues related to Plaid's products and to develop creative solutions
- Horizon-scanning the privacy and regulatory ecosystem and keeping the Legal organization apprised of relevant developments, as well as supporting Plaid's Policy team on related advocacy
- Developing and refining privacy and regulatory policies, procedures, and trainings to facilitate Plaid's compliance with ever-evolving protection laws
- Serving as a key point of contact for privacy/regulatory- related questions that arise in contract negotiations, as well as from Plaid's Risk and Consumer Support teams
- Serving as a key point of contact for the marketing teams as they create content that accurately reflects Plaid's practices and vision
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience as a practicing lawyer with substantial years of experience providing solutions-oriented advice on privacy and regulatory issues, ideally to technology, financial, and/or fintech company(ies), preferably in-house or at a government agency
- Proactive team-player who is excited to roll up their sleeves (no job too big or too small), values digestible and solutions-oriented communication, leads with empathy and a growth mindset, feels comfortable crafting and recommending risk-based solutions, and is committed to collaborative and proactive problem-solving
- Excellent issue-spotter who enjoys analyzing legal issues from various angles, drafting key documents, and has strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Deep knowledge of US financial data privacy laws and regulations (e.g., GLBA) and other state consumer privacy laws (e.g., CCPA, CPRA); working knowledge of international privacy laws, including GDPR, and excitement around learning
- Working knowledge of broad range of regulations, particularly those applicable to financial services, and excitement around deeply learning more (e.g., FCRA, Dodd-Frank Act section 1033, fairness laws, AI Acts, federal / state UDAAP statutes)
- Experience advising on AI, fairness, gaming, AML, and/or accessibility laws, as well as companies in the payments, credit reporting, and/or fraud spaces, and high-risk verticals, preferred
