Director, Privacy Legal

c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text c-message__message_blocks--rich_text p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit a www.redditinc.com. We are looking for a senior attorney to join our growing team and manage the legal team’s privacy function, oversee our privacy compliance program, and counsel our privacy compliance platform. You will also own responses to informal and formal privacy regulatory inquiries, and build relevant regulatory and industry body relationships. A successful candidate is passionate about privacy and even more passionate about process and scale in a fast-changing environment. Location: Remote - United States What You ll Do: Manage the Legal team’s support of Reddit’s global privacy compliance program. Provide advice and counsel to ensure Reddit meets its legal obligations and legal requirements under US, EU, and other applicable legal frameworks around the world. Implement and maintain external and internal privacy- and legal-related policies and processes in line with industry standard frameworks. Partner with and advise product and engineering teams to design and implement privacy controls as part of Reddit’s privacy program. Manage government and regulator discussions, negotiations, and disclosures on privacy and data protection compliance readiness efforts. Be the lead legal subject matter expert for privacy and data protection, ensuring consistency in privacy counseling across the legal team, in line with Reddit’s user-centric approach to privacy. Partner with and advise technical teams to investigate potential privacy and security issues and ensure compliance with applicable law. Be a strategic, proactive and pragmatic legal partner and collaborator with high EQ. Be an evangelist across the company and externally for Reddit’s privacy-focused approach. What We re Looking For: Law degree (JD, LLB, LLM, etc.). You are locally licensed in your jurisdiction, and ideally you have legal experience in multiple jurisdictions. 12+ years of legal experience, at a top law firm or in house, with 5+ years of in-house