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General Counsel leading legal strategy for Optery’s AI-powered consumer privacy platform. Building legal infrastructure and enforcing data broker compliance with U.S. privacy laws.
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead Optery’s legal function
- Advise the CEO, Board of Directors, and leadership team on legal, regulatory, and risk matters
- Draft, review, manage, and negotiate B2B SaaS, vendor, partnership, and other commercial agreements
- Create processes and systems to manage greater contract volumes
- Lead data privacy and regulatory compliance efforts
- Communicate with non-compliant data brokers to compel compliance
- Build relationships with CalPrivacy/CPPA, State Attorneys General, and Departments of Justice
- Assemble evidence of non-compliance and file complaints with regulators
- Support corporate governance, board matters, and equity administration
- Support financing transactions, equity and debt instruments, and potential M&A activity
- Advise on employment matters, intellectual property, and risk mitigation
- Manage outside counsel relationships and develop internal legal processes and policies
- Build the legal team, including potential future legal hires
Requirements:
- 8–15 years of legal experience, with time spent at a top-tier law firm and in-house at a technology or privacy-focused company
- Strong expertise in U.S. consumer data privacy law and regulatory frameworks
- Familiarity with enforcement trends under the CCPA, VCDPA, CPA, TDPSA, OCPA, and other state data privacy laws is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience navigating or working with regulatory agencies such as the CPPA, Attorney General offices, Departments of Justice, or FTC
- Strong background in commercial contracts, corporate governance, and startup equity and debt financing matters
- Excellent communicator and negotiator with a bias for action and pragmatism
- Passion for consumer privacy and strong motivation for holding data brokers accountable to consumer data privacy laws
- Track record of professional success and achievement
- Licensed to practice law in the U.S.; California preferred, but not required
Benefits:
- Offers bonus
- Great health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k program with employer match
- Paid time off policy
- Stipend for home office setup
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