Associate General Counsel

The Associate General Counsel will advise the Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, and Senior Leadership team on legal and regulatory matters, especially pertaining to privacy and security. They will work collaboratively with legal department staff to define and shape a renewed vision and strategy for the Foundation’s privacy team, helping set priorities and evolve the infrastructure to deliver on that vision and strategy. Additionally, they will manage a team providing strong transactional and product counseling support for engineers/technologists, which will include direct counseling, setting organizational policy, and risk assessment/mitigation. This role involves strengthening and improving internal workflows and collaboration relating to product counseling and engineering-related legal advice. Each year, they will oversee an annual refresh of the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy to keep pace with applicable regulation, the protection of user data, and new and evolving features on the Wikimedia projects. This also includes supporting internal and external communication campaigns to educate staff, users, and other stakeholders on the evolution of the policy while developing and leading a strong, diverse, and collaborative team serving Foundation programmatic goals and the Wikimedia movement. The role requires overseeing the work of various privacy workflows and manage assigned lawyers; mentor high-performing legal staff. Finally, they will provide advice and counsel on other areas of the law, which, depending upon our needs and your experience, may include regulatory compliance frameworks, open source licensing, and more.