Senior Privacy Counsel

What You'll Do

• Own Anaconda's privacy legal function as the primary internal counsel, advising Legal, Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams on GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and applicable U.S. state privacy laws to keep us compliant and confident.
• Lead privacy operations end to end, including maintaining the data map and ROPAs, running DPIAs, managing DSR escalations and breach response, and directing our external DPO relationship.
• Build and maintain the commercial privacy infrastructure, including DPA positions, negotiation playbooks, and sub-processor notification processes, to support the sales team and enterprise customer requirements.
• Drive privacy-by-design for Anaconda's AI developer platform, contributing to AI governance frameworks, advising on AI vendor contracts, and developing processes to handle AI-generated DSRs.
• Develop and operationalize internal privacy policies on data minimization, retention, and classification, and build training programs that embed privacy awareness across the organization.
• Update and manage external-facing privacy documentation, including the privacy notice, cookie notice, and internal privacy hub, keeping them current as the product and regulatory landscape evolves.

What You Need

• JD and active bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 8+ years of experience spanning both privacy legal counsel and privacy program operations, with demonstrated ownership across both tracks.
• Proven experience building or meaningfully modernizing a privacy compliance program, including assessing gaps and leading remediation.
• Hands-on operational experience with GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, including running DSARs, managing breach response, and working with sub-processor processes.
• Direct experience using at least one enterprise privacy platform (such as Transcend, OneTrust, or Osano) in daily work, not just overseeing it.
• Working knowledge of AI systems and data practices, sufficient to contribute meaningfully to AI privacy governance and advise on AI vendor contracts.
• Background with B2B or developer-facing products and familiarity with enterprise customer privacy requirements.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience at a startup or pre-IPO company where you built privacy infrastructure with limited resources and no team beneath you, or equivalent ownership of an under-resourced program at a larger organization.
• Experience working at the intersection of privacy and security — has partnered closely with security teams on shared challenges such as vendor assessments, incident response, or data governance, and understands how privacy and security programs need to work together in an enterprise environment.
• Direct experience with Transcend, which reduces ramp time significantly given our current tooling.
• CIPP/E and/or CIPP/US certification.
• Experience in an open-source, AI, or data science-oriented company where privacy intersects directly with platform and product decisions.

Compensation

Base salary range: $152,500 - $205,500, along with annual bonus potential, equity participation, and benefits.