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About the Role

Fastly is seeking a Senior Privacy and Regulatory Counsel to lead its privacy program and provide legal guidance on artificial intelligence, data protection, and emerging regulatory topics. This role offers an opportunity to shape innovative edge cloud technologies within a diverse and inclusive team.

Responsibilities

• Architect, scale, and lead a global privacy program, managing stakeholder engagement across the company.
• Manage compliance strategy for emerging regulatory and technical issues related to cutting-edge products and new jurisdictions, including evolving cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI regulations.
• Design and drive internal company policies, external assets, and sales collateral addressing global privacy, data protection, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Respond to regulatory inquiries and investigations, and collaborate with outside counsel where specialized jurisdictional expertise is required.
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development, incorporating "privacy by design" and similar principles.
• Serve as subject matter expert on privacy and other relevant regulations in complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements.
• Partner with the People team to advise on global employee data protection, workforce privacy initiatives, and talent-related privacy matters.
• Independently manage the legal response to privacy-related incidents.
• Draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement on privacy and regulatory matters.
• Oversee and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs), and support audits, law enforcement requests, and platform-abuse process and policy.

Requirements

• JD from a respected institution and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with significant in-house experience advising on global privacy and regulatory matters at a technology company, especially in the cloud or SaaS space.
• Advanced knowledge of U.S. and global privacy and data protection laws and experience with emerging technology regulations, including AI regulatory schemes.
• Experience building and managing a privacy program and providing clear, actionable legal guidance to business, product, and engineering teams.
• Technology industry experience and familiarity with technical concepts such as APIs, encryption, LLMs, and cloud architecture.
• A pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience.
• Ability to own matters and prioritize, manage, and complete projects independently in a dynamic, evolving environment.
• A collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and values building relationships and improving processes.
• Must be available during core business hours.

Skills

• Privacy by design
• GDPR
• EU Data Act
• EU AI Act
• NIS2
• CRA
• APIs
• Encryption
• LLMs
• Cloud architecture

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Juris Doctor (JD)

Salary/Compensations

• $211,370.00 - $253,644.00

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Family planning support
• Mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 12 paid local holidays
• 12 paid company wellness days

About the Company

• Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives.
• Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
• We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team.

Equal Opportunity

• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
• Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901.
• Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.