Senior Counsel - Privacy Compliance
$207.6k - $302.3k+ Annual performance bonus + Equity
Senior
JD
Boston, MA, USA+5 moreMore locations: Seattle, WA, USA | Washington, DC, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Denver, CO, USA
In Person
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support
About the job
Requirements
- At least 7 years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house, including at least 5 years focused on privacy and demonstrated experience building, operating, or leading a privacy compliance program.
- Deep, current knowledge of global privacy and artificial intelligence frameworks, including the General Data Protection Regulation and UK GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act, European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, and United States state privacy and artificial intelligence laws; familiarity with cross-border data transfer mechanisms, including standard contractual clauses, International Data Transfer Agreement, adequacy decisions, and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
- Working knowledge of privacy-program operations, including data protection/privacy impact assessments, records of processing activities and data mapping, data subject rights processes, privacy by design, and vendor/third-party risk management.
- Technical proficiency using artificial intelligence tools to build skills, agents, and other automated tasks.
- Capacity to work as a generalist and learn new areas of law and legal skills as the business evolves.
- Deep understanding of cloud and software technology and a desire to work on related legal issues.
- Juris Doctor from a top-tier law school.
- State bar membership in good standing.
- Ability to set program direction and drive execution, prioritize work, and manage time and client expectations amid competing demands, often without direct guidance.
- Good judgment in raising issues, assessing risk, and providing concise, actionable, business-focused legal advice and counsel.
- Ability to build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across geographies and functions and work with distributed teams.
- Ability to operate independently and interact confidently with senior management, influencing without authority.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain complex privacy and regulatory concepts clearly to legal and non-legal audiences, including executives.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted privacy legal advisor across the business.
- Own and mature the privacy program and lead legal initiatives that provide practical advice on evolving global privacy and artificial intelligence laws.
- Develop artificial-intelligence-enabled solutions to operate and mature privacy processes and controls that support compliance.
- Advise on compliance with global privacy and data-protection laws, monitor legal and regulatory developments, and translate them into actionable business guidance.
- Build and mature the privacy program to meet evolving regulatory expectations, including contributing to artificial intelligence governance.
- Develop privacy-program components for compliance with new regulations, including data subject rights requests, privacy notices, consent management, impact assessments, and policy management.
- Conduct gap analyses and risk assessments, including data protection impact assessments, privacy impact assessments, and transfer impact assessments, to identify, assess, and help mitigate privacy risks; support records of processing activities.
- Draft and update form agreements and advise on and negotiate data protection provisions in commercial contracts, including data processing addendums, standard contractual clauses, and related data-transfer instruments.
- Develop and maintain internal privacy policies, external privacy notices, and standards.
- Design and deliver privacy training and awareness programs and help operationalize privacy and artificial intelligence governance frameworks and cross-functional privacy committees.
- Build cross-functional relationships and collaborate with legal leaders in commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs on privacy issues.
- Exercise practical judgment about whether to approve, approve with conditions, decline, or escalate.
- Provide general legal support as needed across other areas of the business and contribute to the legal department.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working for a company that offers platform services to business customers.
- Familiarity with privacy management tools such as OneTrust or comparable products.
- One or more privacy certifications, such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, or FIP; CIPM is particularly valued for a program-leadership role.
About the company
Databricks builds cloud software that businesses use to organize data, analyze it, and develop AI applications. Its lakehouse architecture brings the flexible storage of a data lake together with the querying and management tools of a data warehouse. Data engineers prepare and update datasets, analysts build reports, and developers train models or create applications in a shared workspace with controls over who can use the data. The platform runs on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google clouds, and customers pay for computing usage or commit to longer contracts for discounted rates. Databricks was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$32.1B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2013
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growth supports larger product bets: Databricks reported over 80% yearly growth and a $7 billion revenue run-rate in August 2026.
- Employees try frontier AI immediately: Databricks says its 12,000 staff received day-one access to September 2026 model releases.
- Existing customers spend more: Databricks reported over 140% revenue retention in February 2026, after contractions and departed accounts.
What critics are saying
- Steep valuation: Databricks' August 2026 round valued it near 27 times its $7 billion annualized revenue milestone.
- A partner controls part of the bill: Microsoft sets Azure Databricks prices and bills those customers directly.
- Equity needs planned liquidity: Databricks remains privately held, so employee shares lack an everyday stock-market exit.
What makes Databricks unique
- Governance extends beyond its own engine: Databricks publishes Unity Catalog's core APIs and server as open source.
- Apps run beside analytics: Databricks' Lakebase combines a Postgres database with its data lake and isolated testing branches.
- Its roots are in distributed computing: Databricks' founders created Apache Spark, which processes large datasets across many computers.
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Benefits
- Extended health care including dental and vision
- Life/AD&D and disability coverage
- Equity awards
- Flexible Vacation
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Business travel accident insurance
- Paid Parental Leave