FinTech Counsel

TruLegal is representing a global name in progressive financial technology seeking a Privacy and Product Counsel to support high-impact initiatives across its consumer and enterprise product lines. This is a product and business enablement role, designed to find creative ways to add value through dynamic and innovative uses of data. This is a highly collaborative opportunity, best suited for someone who likes to find ways to say "yes" to the business and to influence cutting-edge financial products, making thoughtful risk-based decisions, and helping scale privacy best practices within a mission-driven organization committed to earning and protecting customer trust. Candidates must be licensed attorneys and willing to be hybrid at a client office, with a strong preference for those in San Diego or the Bay Area.Provide practical, product-focused counseling to teams building consumer and SMB experiences across tax, money, mid-market, and Business Services

• Embed privacy into product development by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Security, and Marketing from early concept through launch
• Advise on privacy-by-design controls including data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and customer choice
• Support privacy requirements tied to tax and financial data handling, including advising on tax return information confidentiality (e.g., Help teams navigate privacy implications of sensitive data, identity verification, and customer support/service journeys that touch regulated datasets
• Counsel on customer-facing disclosures and UX patterns (e.g., just-in-time notices, consent flows, preference centers, permissioning, and in-product education) to ensure experiences are clear, consistent, and defensible, and to reduce “dark pattern” risk
• Conduct and document privacy impact assessments and provide launch guidance, including risk framing, mitigations, and durable decision records
• Support data sharing and ecosystem questions (first/third-party, vendors, partners, internal platform services), including governance and contractual expectations (in partnership with commercial counsel as needed)
• Build and improve scalable tools, templates, playbooks, intake paths, and training, to help product teams move faster with confidence
• Demonstrated relevant legal experience (in-house and/or at a law firm)
• Strong working knowledge of relevant data privacy laws in the US (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, other state privacy laws, GLBA, etc.)
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, and with outside counsel in domestic and international markets, on issues related to data privacy, product design and functionality, transactional issues, and other technology initiatives
• Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into forward-looking and actionable policies, frameworks and guidelines
• Ability to engage in and document detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess privacy and other legal risks
• Ability to communicate with business partners about regulatory obligations, risk management processes and drive change
• Expected salary for this role is $180,000 - $240,000, commensurate with experience, training, skills, qualifications, and other market factors.#