Legal Specialist, Law Enforcement

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end responses to law enforcement and government requests for user data, including subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests from domestic and foreign authorities.
• Prepare and execute data productions by scoping requests, retrieving data, coordinating with counsel, and completing production.
• Handle foreign and cross-border process, including MLATs and letters rogatory, and manage jurisdictional escalations.
• Handle civil third-party subpoenas and preservation demands.
• Maintain expertise in the location of user data across product surfaces and operate internal data-retrieval tooling.
• Run and improve law enforcement response processes and tooling.
• Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, and Engineering on account requests, investigations, and safety escalations.
• Coordinate with outside counsel and in-house counsel on objections, challenges, and narrowing requests.
• Produce recurring reports on request volume, deadlines, and queue health, and support transparency reporting on government requests.
• Monitor legal developments concerning government access to user data and advise on operational impact.
• Support litigation and regulatory matters and other legal-team objectives as needed.

Requirements

• Experience in legal operations, business or operations management, paralegal work, or a similar in-house legal role.
• Direct experience handling law enforcement or government requests for user data.
• Working knowledge of the legal framework for law enforcement access to user data, including the Stored Communications Act and cross-border requests such as MLATs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive, confidential legal matters under time pressure.
• Strong project management skills, including prioritization, deadline management, and multitasking.
• Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end, including escalation decisions and rigorous tracking.
• Comfort operating and improving legal-process tooling such as trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to implementing process improvements.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or an in-house paralegal role.
• 2+ years of experience at a high-growth technology company.
• Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process.
• Experience managing legal intake at a growing company.
• Critical and creative thinking with practical problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with Asana, Trello, or Jira.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $170,000–$220,000 USD.