Senior Counsel
Job description
A versatile lawyer role at Automattic advising product, engineering, and marketing teams on global regulations, privacy, and content safety to help launch products for the company's user community. The role also involves protecting free expression and the open web.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · United States, Europe
- Pay
- USD 180,000 – 300,000 / year
What you'll do
- Advise product, engineering, and trust & safety teams on implementation of a broad assortment of regulations and industry standards, with a focus on content safety, consumer protection, intellectual property, privacy, and data security.
- Provide product counseling on a wide array of products relating to web hosting, site creation, content publication, ecommerce, social media, and more, using a business-forward approach that puts customers at the center of the analysis.
- Provide subject matter expertise on data protection and privacy laws, such as GDPR and CCPA, advise on consent frameworks for digital marketing and advertising, and build scalable processes for documenting compliance.
- Track and prepare for upcoming regulations, and participate in industry groups around the globe, representing Automattic before regulators and advocating for Automattic's interests before government agencies and officials.
- Work with trust & safety teams to develop and oversee policies championing freedom of expression and user safety while complying with applicable laws.
- Design processes and workflows that enable the legal team to effectively scale compliance in a manner that meets the increase in regulatory and privacy requirements.
What we're looking for
- JD from a US accredited law school with 5+ years of relevant experience (or an exception EU-based attorney)
- Humble and eager teammate who is also able to function independently and work in an asynchronous environment, with a willingness and ability to stretch into new areas like litigation or IP if needed.
- Be comfortable in the grey areas, and have the ability to provide recommendations and offer clear thinking even with imperfect information.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with laws like DSA, the UK and Australian Online Safety Acts, EU AI Act, and worldwide age-assurance laws
Benefits
- Open vacation policy
- Fully-remote company
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About Automattic
Now in our 20th year, we're the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place. We're a distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages.
Mission
To democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source
Key facts
- more than 1500 Automatticians
- Now in our 20th year
- More than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe
- Speaking over a hundred different languages
- Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy
- Believes in Open Source; vast majority of work available under the GPL
- Most Loved Company
- Equal Opportunity employer
- Disability Confident Committed
What they value
- Open Source
- Diversity
- Free expression and the open web