Senior Counsel, Privacy
DoorDash
DoorDash is hiring an experienced Senior Counsel, Privacy to help us build a best-in-class privacy program. This high visibility, high impact role will require close partnership with product, engineering, and business teams. In addition to building out our privacy program, you will counsel innovative products and services, advising on creative solutions that mitigate risk while unlocking business goals.
About the Team
DoorDash’s Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our highly collaborative and supportive approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. We are a diverse group of lawyers with a shared passion for providing creative and best-in-class service to our business partners. We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value and respect each other as teammates. We’re looking for a team builder who can successfully work across the legal team, as well as the broader company. Join us!
About the Role
As Senior Counsel, Privacy you will do more than advise; you’ll build. You will help build our global privacy program, working closely with technical stakeholders to devise solutions that maximize compliance impact while minimizing resource spend. You will build your expertise in U.S. and international privacy laws and become fluent in emerging legal frameworks governing artificial intelligence and automated decision-making. You will build bridges across the DoorDash organization, advising teams on a wide range of new product and feature launches.
We’re looking for someone who maximizes their impact by prioritizing what matters and driving results. Someone who creatively solves problems and exemplifies ownership by relentlessly driving toward solutions. Someone who feels comfortable quickly analyzing and clearly communicating tough risk-based decisions. Someone who gets it done, whether “it” is a one-off escalation or a 6-month project. If you need a challenge to accelerate your growth, we need you.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Develop and maintain a privacy framework that ensures compliance with applicable domestic and international privacy laws along with best practices.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that privacy is built into the design of new products, features, and business initiatives.
- Partner with the commercial team to ensure appropriate data protection provisions are incorporated into vendor, partner, and merchant agreements.
- Provide privacy advice to product and engineering throughout the development lifecycle to mitigate legal risks, respect consumer privacy, and advance business goals.
- Synthesize input from outside counsel, your own research, and feedback from internal stakeholders to provide practical guidance applicable to the teams you advise.
- Maintain up-to-date internal and external privacy policies.
We’re excited about you because…
- You work autonomously while exercising sound judgment in a fast-paced environment.
- You thrive equally on quick risk-based decisions and nailing big projects.
- You are technically fluent.
- You are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and have prioritized participating in DEI initiatives in past roles.
- You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
- You have a positive attitude and high EQ. No job is too big or too small!
Qualifications
- J.D. required, admitted to any state bar.
- 8+ years legal experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, with a focus on privacy and data protection issues (prior in-house experience strongly preferred)
- Familiarity with global privacy frameworks and advising on privacy issues.
- Ability to autonomously drive results and make quick risk-based decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to lead, organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively.
We expect this position to be filled by 11/25/2024.
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Compensation
The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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