Data Privacy - Transactional Attorney in Chicago, IL

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Chicago, IL

Data Privacy - Transactional Attorney in Chicago, IL

Attorney

Min 12 yrs required

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Job Title: Associate General Counsel Director, Product & Privacy

Job Responsibilities:
- Exercise strong judgment and provide legal leadership on strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with product and business teams from the initial stages of product development and beyond to identify potential legal risks and provide risk-mitigation strategies.
- Work closely with internal business partners to understand their perspectives, processes, applications, projects, and technologies to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and best practices while guiding them to the successful resolution of projects.
- Distill and communicate complex legal concepts in layman’s terms.
- Educate employees, partners, and clients about current and emerging privacy issues facing the company and the industry.
- Maintain an up to date understanding of the intersection of global privacy laws and advertising technology, and how the use of cookies, tags, pixels, AI/ML models, and other mechanisms customize and personalize digital advertising.
- Collaborate with legal and business team members to improve processes.
- Work directly with business team leadership to provide and obtain information and build consensus regarding product strategy and project deadlines.
- Proactively identify and lead execution of projects and initiatives that impact the team, department, and company, taking into consideration cross-department collaboration.

Education and Experience Information:
- Education: . degree from an ABA accredited law school.
- Bar: Must be a member in good standing of an applicable state.
- 12+ years of legal experience.
- Understanding of legal issues impacting the digital advertising industry including self-regulatory guidelines, privacy and data governance issues and legislation, consumer protection, and global privacy laws & regulations.
- Technology savvy.
- Experience advising on advertising technology matters.
- Detailed understanding of US state privacy laws preferred.
- Excellent critical thinking and analytical writing skills.
- Decisive, forward-thinking, energetic, and accountable, with a strong work ethic.
- Ability to work well under pressure with diligence, organization, and high autonomy.
- Ability to boil complex issues down to the bottom line and provide practical, business-friendly advice that can be operationalized.
- Builds effective relationships inside and outside the company established on trust, respect, and confidence.
- Moves fluidly between macro strategic thinking to tactical excellence.
- Makes good executional and planning decisions.

Salary Information:
- The base salary range for this role is $201,100—$368,700 USD.
- Employees may be eligible to become company shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded based on company and individual performance.
- The company offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions.
- Expected benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year.
- Employees can also purchase company stock at a discount through the company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Legal Notices:
- The company does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of the company.
- The company is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
- The company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is the company’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location.

Jun 18, 2025
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