Senior Counsel at Automattic

Job Description

Automattic, the corporate behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Tumblr and extra, is looking for a gifted legal professional to help our product, privateness, and regulatory work.

We’re in search of a flexible lawyer who will get issues carried out with minimal friction, makes the complicated appear easy, and may present actionable recommendation to assist enterprise groups launch nice merchandise for our vibrant group of customers. You’ll advise product, engineering, and advertising and marketing groups to launch new merchandise that delight our customers; untangle the complicated net of worldwide rules that apply to Automattic’s enterprise; and shield free expression and the open net.

Responsibilities:

• Advise product, engineering, and belief & security groups on implementation of a broad assortment of rules and business requirements, with a deal with content material security, shopper safety, mental property, privateness, and information safety. Familiarity with legal guidelines like DSA, the UK and Australian Online Safety Acts, EU AI Act, and worldwide age-assurance legal guidelines is a serious plus.
• Provide product counseling on a wide selection of merchandise referring to webhosting, website creation, content material publication, ecommerce, social media, and extra, utilizing a business-forward strategy that places our prospects on the middle of your evaluation.
• Provide subject material experience on information safety and privateness legal guidelines, akin to GDPR and CCPA, advise on consent frameworks for digital advertising and marketing and promoting, and construct scalable processes for documenting compliance.
• Track and put together for upcoming rules, and take part in business teams across the globe, representing Automattic earlier than regulators and advocating for Automattic’s pursuits earlier than authorities businesses and officers.
• Work with belief & security groups to develop and oversee insurance policies championing freedom of expression and person security whereas complying with relevant legal guidelines.
• Design processes and workflows that allow the authorized workforce to successfully scale compliance in a way that meets the rise in regulatory and privateness necessities.

Requirements:

• JD from a US accredited regulation faculty with 5+ years of related expertise (or an exception EU-based legal professional)
• Familiarity with the industries, ideas, and enterprise fashions related to Automattic’s merchandise (e.g., open supply, user-generated content material, webhosting, social media, ecommerce, and digital promoting) and the product, privateness, and regulatory necessities that apply to them.
• Humble and keen teammate who can also be capable of operate independently and work in an asynchronous surroundings, with a willingness and talent to stretch into new areas like litigation or IP if wanted.
• Be snug within the gray areas, and have the power to offer suggestions and provide clear pondering even with imperfect data.

We are hiring at both the Counsel or Senior Counsel degree, and we encourage candidates throughout each ranges to use. Title, compensation, and the scope of unbiased possession over the issues described above will mirror the expertise and {qualifications} a candidate brings to the position.

Compensation and Benefits

We are at present prioritizing candidates who reside within the United States or Europe.

Salary vary: $180,000 – $300,000 USD.  Please observe that wage ranges are world, no matter location, and we pay in native foreign money.

We are looking for high-caliber candidates with the abilities and qualities to have a web optimistic for Automattic. Pay will mirror the potential contribution and the impression you may convey, which can, in some circumstances, transcend the vary acknowledged.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job; we’re a fully-remote firm with an open trip coverage. Read extra about our compensation philosophy. To see a full record of advantages by nation, seek the advice of our Benefits Page. And take a look at these hyperlinks to be taught extra about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-DNI

About Automattic

Now in our twentieth yr, we’re the individuals behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and extra. We imagine in making the net a greater place.

We’re a distributed firm with greater than 1500 Automatticians in practically each nook of the globe, talking over 100 totally different languages. Enriched by this range, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anybody with a narrative can inform it, anybody with a product can promote it, and everybody can handle their communications from a single supply. In brief, we assist keep a steadiness in society, creating and regularly refining highly effective instruments individuals can use to compete pretty—no matter revenue, gender, politics, language, or the place they stay within the planet.

We imagine in Open Source, and the overwhelming majority of our work is out there below the GPL. Automattic is a Most Loved Company, an Equal Opportunity employer, and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that may imply for you.) If you want lodging in the course of the software or interview course of, please fill out this type. We are dedicated to making sure an accessible hiring course of for all candidates. Learn extra about our Employee Resource Groups.

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