Senior Lead Counsel (Privacy)

Join Pinterest as a Senior Lead Counsel (Privacy) and provide strategic privacy counseling to help design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, shape and execute scalable privacy processes, and provide end-to-end privacy counseling. This role requires a minimum of 10 years of experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to navigate complex legal and compliance issues.

• Provide strategic, product-focused privacy counseling to help Pinterest design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to embed privacy-by-design into the product lifecycle, guide high-impact launches, and help balance business goals with privacy compliance obligations.
• Lead and support privacy risk assessments, including DPIAs where applicable, and drive practical mitigations in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction where you reside with a minimum of 10 years of experience
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated experience providing privacy counseling in a fast-paced environment to Trust & Safety and Product teams, with the ability to translate legal requirements into clear, practical guidance for business, product, and technical teams
• Experience navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance issues for a technology company or similarly dynamic environment preferred
• Familiarity with international data transfer mechanisms (e.g., SCCs and transfer risk assessments) preferred
• Excellent judgment, strong ownership, and the ability to operate independently on sensitive and high-stakes matters
• Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments, and driving cross-functional mitigations to enable launches while managing risk
• Demonstrated ability to use AI and other technology tools effectively and responsibly and identify practical opportunities to improve effectiveness, or willingness to learn
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities with independence, sound judgment, and attention to detail, and a practical, solutions-oriented approach
• Experience with privacy product counseling on ads in the tech sector, as well as advising on commercial matters, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating data processing agreements (DPAs) and advising on related data protection terms, a significant plus