Senior Privacy Counsel

The role

You will provide strategic, product-focused privacy counseling to help design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to embed privacy-by-design and lead privacy risk assessments.

What you will do

• Provide end-to-end EU privacy product counseling for new products and feature launches.
• Advise on GDPR, ePrivacy, DSA, and EU AI Act topics.
• Lead and support privacy risk assessments including DPIAs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to operationalise privacy-by-design.
• Provide guidance on data sharing and vendor/partner arrangements.
• Advise on international data transfers for EU data flows.
• Develop and improve scalable privacy workflows, templates, and playbooks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to address privacy issues from incidents or complaints.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve privacy counseling and program workflows.

Required qualifications

• Qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction where you reside or equivalent EU qualification.
• Significant post-qualification legal experience in privacy.
• Substantial experience counseling on EU privacy law.
• Demonstrated experience providing product counseling in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments.
• Strong understanding of how modern products handle data including data flows, analytics, SDKs/APIs, and tracking/measurement concepts.
• Excellent judgment and integrity.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities with independence.
• Eagerness to learn, strong ownership, and a flexible, collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI and other technology tools effectively and responsibly.

Nice to have

• ePrivacy knowledge strongly preferred
• Experience navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance issues for a technology company or similarly dynamic environment preferred
• Familiarity with international data transfer mechanisms (e.g., SCCs and transfer risk assessments) preferred

Benefits

• Equity

Before you apply

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

About the company

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people come to find creative ideas and plan for memories. The company is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.