Reddit

Director, Privacy Legal

Reddit$299K — $418K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Legal & Accounting
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Law degree (JD, LLB, LLM, etc.) with local licensing; preferably across multiple jurisdictions.
  • 12+ years of legal experience, particularly in privacy and product counseling, ideally with 5+ years in-house.
  • Proven track record of managing privacy compliance programs in dynamic, product-driven environments.
  • Familiarity with global privacy laws, especially those impacting tech companies like Reddit.
  • Exceptional legal drafting ability and preference for clear, straightforward communication.
  • Experience collaborating with regulators, particularly in European jurisdictions.
  • Ability to lead and mentor a high-performing legal team in an inclusive workplace.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the legal team's global privacy compliance program and provide necessary legal advice.
  • Develop and maintain privacy-related policies and processes aligned with industry standards.
  • Oversee discussions, negotiations, and disclosures with government regulators regarding compliance efforts.
  • Act as the principal legal expert on privacy, ensuring consistent counseling across the legal team.
  • Collaborate with technical teams to investigate privacy and security issues while ensuring legal compliance.
  • Serve as a strategic legal partner with strong interpersonal skills across the organization.
  • Advocate for and promote Reddit's commitment to user privacy internally and externally.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
  • 401k with Employer Match.
  • Global Benefit programs tailored to employee lifestyles, including workspace and professional development support.
  • Family Planning Support.
  • Gender-Affirming Care.
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave.
Full Job Description
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 privacy and/or product counseling experience. - Demonstrated experience implementing and managing a successful privacy compliance program in a fast paced, product-forward environment. - Experience with global privacy laws and industry guidelines, especially including those relevant for tech platforms like Reddit. - Strong legal drafting and writing skills and a penchant for concise, plain English writing. - Experience responding to and partnering with regulators, particularly in Europe. - Experience managing high impact and strong performing legal team members in a dynamic, inclusive environment. - Nimble, proactive and an excellent communicator. You are used to collaborating effectively across time zones and have the ability to build strong relationships with engineers, product managers, legal colleagues and other internal stakeholders at all levels of the business. - You love and use Reddit as a platform! Benefits: - Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs - 401k with Employer Match - Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support - Family Planning Support - Gender-Affirming Care - Mental Health & Coaching Benefits - Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off - Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/. To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $299,200-$418,800 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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