Lead Privacy and Product Legal Counsel at Veriff

Job description

The Legal & Compliance team empowers Veriff’s innovation and scalability from a legal front. We advise on best operational practices to deliver a world-class service, ensuring responsibility, compliance, and legal risk mitigation. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving.

We are looking for a Lead Privacy and Product Legal Counsel to take on a dual role: serving as Product Counsel for privacy-intensive Product Areas and a leading Privacy Counsel responsible managing parts of Veriff’s data privacy compliance.

You’ll help us protect honest people online by:

Acting as the main legal point of contact for designated Product Areas, advising on legal and privacy risks, compliance strategies, and supplier engagements.
Leading privacy-by-design initiatives, ensuring compliance throughout the product lifecycle, and managing related legal documentation.
Managing and owning parts of data privacy compliance, including documentation such as DPAs, DPIAs, LIAs, privacy policies, and privacy notices.
Supporting or leading privacy negotiations with customers and suppliers, as well as engaging with regulatory authorities.
Monitoring, reviewing, and analyzing legislation, policies, public policy decisions, and legal frameworks relevant to Veriff.
Keeping up with global privacy regulations and data protection developments and advising on their impact.
Developing and delivering trainings, training materials, guidelines, policies, and blog posts for internal and external use.
Managing outside counsel engagement for their work.
Leading cross-functional legal projects, mentoring junior colleagues.

You are the right future Veriffian for the job if you have:

6+ years of experience in the area including privacy law, e.g. GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD, preferably in an international SaaS (B2B/B2C) environment.
A Master’s degree in Law (or equivalent)
Proven ability to advise product and engineering teams from ideation to launch, balancing legal risk with business needs.
Strong project management, negotiation, and stakeholder collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a multi-jurisdictional, fast-paced environment.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and structured approach to legal challenges.

You’re an especially awesome match if you have:

A technical understanding of cloud-based SaaS, cybersecurity, AI/ML, and APIs.
Experience in providing legal advice related to and helping to build systems that deal with sensitive data categories, including biometrics.
Ownership of internationally acknowledged privacy/information security/auditing/risk management or other privacy related certifications (e.g. IAPP)

Why Veriff?

We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career, whilst looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favourites include...

Flexibility to work from home
Stock options that ensure your share in our success
Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
Comprehensive relocation support to Estonia or Spain
Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
Learning and Development & Health and Sports budget that you are free to tailor to your own needs
Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 5th work anniversary

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates - so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!

Please be informed that in the final stage of the recruitment process we may request you to go through identity verification. For more information, please see Recruitment Privacy Policy.

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