Compliance Senior Counsel

the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. the company’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Senior Privacy and Regulatory Counsel We are looking for a Senior Privacy and RegulatoryCounsel to join our Legal team. The person will lead our privacy program and provide legal guidance around artificial intelligence, data protection, and other emerging regulatory topics. This is a great opportunity for a thoughtful, pragmatic, and collaborative attorney with strong business instincts who wants to help shape innovative edge cloud technologies. This position reports to the Assistant General Counsel leading the Product, Technology, and Regulatory team, and will be based out of one of our offices with a preference for San Francisco, CA.

Regulatory Strategy: Manage compliance strategy for emerging regulatory and technical issues related to cutting-edge products and new jurisdictions, including evolving cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI regulations (e.g., NIS2, CRA, ISP-specific frameworks, global privacy laws)

Policy Management: Design and drive internal company policies, external assets, and sales collateral addressing global privacy, data protection, and other regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, EU Data Act, EU AI Act)

Regulator Engagement: Respond to regulatory inquiries and investigations, and collaborate with outside counsel where specialized jurisdictional expertise is required

Product Counseling: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development, incorporating "privacy by design" and similar principles

Commercial Negotiations: Serve as our subject matter expert on privacy and other relevant regulations in complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements in collaboration with other Legal and business partners

Partner with our People team to advise on global employee data protection, workforce privacy initiatives, and talent-related privacy matters.

Independently manage the legal response to privacy-related incidents

Process & Training: Draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement on privacy and regulatory matters

Oversee and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs), and support audits, law enforcement requests, and platform-abuse process and policy

Experience: 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with significant in-house experience advising on global privacy and regulatory matters at a technology company, especially in the cloud or SaaS space

Regulatory Expertise: S. and global privacy and data protection laws and experience with emerging technology regulations, including AI regulatory schemes

Experience building and managing a privacy program and providing clear, actionable legal guidance to business, product, and engineering teams

Technology industry experience and familiarity with technical concepts such as APIs, encryption, LLMs, and cloud architecture

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience

Ability to own matters and prioritize, manage, and complete projects independently in a dynamic, evolving environment

A collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and values building relationships and improving processes

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: This position has one opening and can be hired in the following preferred office locations:

the company currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

This role may be eligible to participate in the company’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.

We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.

For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

the company is a small company with a big reach.