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Privacy Counsel

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build Beacon's enterprise data privacy program from inception, establishing frameworks, policies, and processes for a multi-jurisdictional technology acquirer.

Role type

Strategic hands-on Privacy Counsel (first dedicated privacy specialist)

Builds

Enterprise privacy program, M&A privacy diligence playbooks, privacy policies, and cross-border transfer mechanisms

Domain

Technology acquisition / Vertical market software / Multi-jurisdictional data privacy

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Multi-jurisdictional data privacy law expertise, M&A privacy due diligence, privacy program architecture, incident response, vendor risk management, AI privacy implications

Preferred skills

Experience building privacy functions from scratch, pragmatic business-enabling advice, AI tool proficiency

Technologies

Legal tech tools for privacy work

Responsibilities

Architect privacy governance and operating models, lead privacy due diligence and integration for acquisitions, draft core privacy documentation and templates, advise IT and product teams on privacy-by-design, monitor compliance across US, Canada, and EU/UK, lead data breach response, manage third-party privacy risk, develop AI privacy guidelines, design privacy training programs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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