Corporate Counsel, Privacy (Privacy)

Location: New York, New York, United States; onsite

Base salary: $180,000–$240,000 per year, depending on skills and experience.

Company

hirify.global is building a secure identity platform used across aviation, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, and everyday experiences.

What you will do

• Serve as a legal partner to Product, Engineering, Security, Marketing, Growth, Operations, Business Development, and other business teams.
• Build and evolve the privacy program through policies, processes, playbooks, governance, escalation paths, and risk reporting.
• Advise early on new products, features, and material changes; lead or support privacy intake, impact assessments, higher-risk assessments, design requirements, ownership, and launch conditions.
• Document data flows, purposes, legal bases, systems, recipients, vendors, jurisdictions, retention, safeguards, processing records, and inventories.
• Advise on U.S. and international privacy requirements, including biometrics, health-related data, consent, identity, advertising and tracking technologies, automated or AI-enabled processing, and cross-border transfers.
• Guide privacy notices, consent and preference experiences, data rights processes, diligence, data protection terms, business associate agreements, data sharing, vendor changes, incidents, complaints, regulatory responses, and global expansion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including a combination of law firm and in-house experience at a technology company.
• At least 1 year in an in-house product counsel role.
• Strong experience in product counseling and privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA; familiarity with privacy and data protection laws is required.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance risk with commercial objectives.
• Excellent judgment, communication, and drafting skills.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be admitted to practice law and in good standing in at least one U.S. state.
• Product-savvy legal partner with experience advising Product, Engineering, and Security teams and translating legal requirements into actionable guidance throughout the product development lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with identity technology issues.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work in bright, open-concept offices with conference rooms, coworking spaces, catered lunches, and stocked kitchens.
• Healthcare plans, family-building benefits, flexible time off, and an annual wellness stipend.
• Learning and development stipends and reimbursement programs.
• OneMedical memberships, hirify.global Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Additional compensation may include annual bonuses, commission, and Restricted Stock Units.

Hiring process

• Hiring communications will come directly from a hirify.global employee through valid hirify.global channels, such as a valid @hirify.globalme.com email address or verified hirify.global LinkedIn profile.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants who need support during the application process or while performing the role.