Meta, California is inviting and hiring for a Privacy Counsel job for their Whatsapp’s Legal Team.

About Meta

Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other products and services

About Job Opportunity

Meta, California is inviting and hiring for a Privacy Counsel job for their Whatsapp’s Legal Team. WhatsApp is seeking a highly motivated, talented, and experienced attorney to join its privacy team and advise the company on a range of privacy, data protection, regulatory, and privacy compliance-related issues and initiatives

Role and Responsibilities

  • Apply subject matter expertise and keen strategic judgment in areas of privacy, data protection, and security laws (including state and federal consumer protection and privacy laws, GDPR, and other global privacy laws) and provide the broader business with legal advice on the same
  • Monitor and respond quickly to developments in data privacy and information security (i.e., new laws, regulations, important judgments, regulatory guidance, etc.)
  • Collaborate with other legal and non-legal stakeholders to help guide privacy-forward product development and evaluate the impact of privacy laws, regulatory guidance, and enforcement actions on business initiatives
  • Drive high-profile and high-impact projects involving privacy analysis and compliance with cross-functional stakeholders across Facebook’s business, policy, legal, communications, security, and other departments

Eligibility

  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Advising on privacy legal risks, regulations, or industry guidelines, or with working knowledge of privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and/or LGPD
  • 3+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm and/or in-house or government experience
  • J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one US state bar
  • In-house or government experience as applicable, in privacy, litigation, regulatory, or product counseling, particularly at technology, social media, or communications/messaging company
  • Business judgment and client counseling experience

How to Apply?

Please find the link at the end of this post.

Location

Chicago, Illinois

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