Assistant General Counsel
Assistant General Counsel will serve as the second in-house lawyer, leading adtech-focused data privacy and commercial contracting while supporting fintech and company-wide legal matters. The role requires a JD, active bar membership, approximately seven or more years of post-JD experience, and strong autonomy.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Negotiate and close commercial agreements for the adtech business, including data licenses, MSAs, DPAs, SOWs, and order forms with agencies, platforms, publishers, and retail media networks.
- Advise product, engineering, and growth teams on new features and data flows.
- Build the data privacy program, including data inventory, consent and opt-out reviews, vendor diligence, and consumer data request processes.
- Support expansion of the consumer fintech business alongside specialist consumer regulatory counsel.
- Build legal operations using AI where appropriate, including intake, negotiation playbooks, self-service templates, first-pass contract review, matter management, reporting, and company-wide contracting and signature-authority policies.
- Manage outside counsel, including scope, budget, and rates.
- Support legal matters across shared services, employment, intellectual property, corporate matters, structured financings, insurance, and state-level licensing.
Requirements
- JD and active bar membership in good standing.
- Approximately 7+ years of post-JD experience, combining law firm training with in-house experience.
- Deep data privacy experience, ideally in adtech, data licensing, or a data-driven consumer business.
- Experience with state privacy laws, consent and opt-out mechanics, sensitive data, data broker and deletion-request regimes, and controller and processor allocation in DPAs.
- Substantial high-volume commercial and sales contracting experience, including data licenses, MSAs, DPAs, SOWs, and order forms.
- Legal operations experience and AI fluency.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Consumer financial services or fintech experience, including earned wage access, buy-now-pay-later, or bank partnerships.
- Knowledge of TILA and Regulation Z, EFTA and Regulation E, FCRA, the Military Lending Act, TCPA, UDAAP, GLBA, and state licensing and registration regimes.
- Experience managing litigation, arbitration, or regulatory matters.
Work Arrangement
- Hybrid schedule in New York, NY or Chicago, IL: four days in the office and one day remote.
Skills
Data Privacy, Adtech, Commercial Contracting, Data Licensing, Msa, Dpa, Sow, Legal Operations, Contract Review, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Financial Services, Tila, Fcra, Glba, Tcpa
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