Senior Privacy Counsel
About Prove
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Senior Privacy Counsel
Department: Legal
Reports To: Chief Privacy Officer
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: New York, NY
Job Summary:
The Senior Privacy Counsel is a crucial strategic leader responsible for supporting growth, implementation, and management of the organization's data privacy and governance strategy. Reporting directly to the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), this U.S.-based role focuses on global data privacy laws and their impact on Prove’s solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist the CPO in growing, implementing, and managing the organization’s global data privacy and governance strategy.
- Developing, implementing, and tracking measurable privacy-related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or similar metrics to audit program maturity.
- Developing, implementing, and updating comprehensive internal and external privacy policies, privacy notices, and templates.
- Drafting and negotiating Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and related internal templates.
- Providing legal counsel on privacy clauses in commercial agreements.
- Partner with other Prove stakeholders (such as Information Security, Engineering and Product, and Legal) to further incorporate privacy by design and privacy by default principles into company processes.
- Addressing data subject requests, including optimizing intake processes and drafting supporting documents for prospect/client inquiries.
- Lead internal privacy training initiatives, including Prove’s Privacy Champions Program.
- Embodying Prove’s cultural values. At Prove, we are dedicated to fostering a culture that embodies our core values: One Team, Innovating, and Building Trust. By living these values, we empower ourselves to achieve and sustain ambitious goals.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Must be admitted, active, and in good standing with the state bar in which the position is located, or with another state bar
- 5-8 years of professional experience in an international company or in an international law firm
- Advanced understanding of global privacy laws, including CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, GDPR, and LGPD
- Significant experience drafting global privacy policies, privacy notices, and related consumer-facing policies and disclosures
- Experience running global cookie compliance programs preferred but not required
- Experience using online privacy management platforms preferred but not required
- CIPP/US or CIPP/E preferred but not required
- SaaS implementation and management experience preferred but not required
- Ability to work in a multi-product, global, and evolving environment while organizing and managing multiple responsibilities and projects with competing priorities and deadlines
- Demonstrated success working with a remote team
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies preferred
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000 plus company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
- 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
- Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics
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When you are applying for a job at Prove, we collect and use your personal information in the job application process. To understand more about how Prove uses your personal information, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policy on our website.
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