Associate General Counsel, Privacy and Product
We’re on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future, everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge, create and synthesize information, and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higher-level, creative aspects of their work.
We’re building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface, you can think of it as Google + ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood, our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a company’s knowledge together, understands it at a deep level, provides industry-leading search relevance over it, and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.
Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers who saw a need in the enterprise space for their technical depth and passion for AI. We’re a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to help each other get big things done—so we can help other teams do the same.
We're backed by some of the Valley's leading venture capitalists—including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and General Catalyst—and have assembled a world-class team with senior leadership experience at Google, Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Rubrik, Uber, Intercom, Pinterest, Palantir, and others.
Role
Glean is looking for a strategic, passionate, and experienced Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy to join our team. This role, reporting into our Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, will be responsible for all of our privacy and product counseling legal work for Glean’s growing business. You will be a pivotal player in our company's growth, responsible for identifying, analyzing and mitigating risk and enabling the success of our product and our customers. You will collaborate closely with our leadership to deeply understand our overarching business objectives and provide top notch legal advice. This role is an Individual Contributor role at this time, with the potential for building out a team as Glean scales.
What you’ll do:
- Counseling and Advising: Serve as the company’s go-to expert and resource on privacy and product counseling. Advise product, engineering, operations, and marketing teams on meeting strategic objectives while complying with laws, regulations, best practices, and customer requirements. Work closely with product leadership and product pods in developing best-in-class methods for legal and privacy review of our product development process.
Privacy Compliance: Lead Glean’s privacy compliance program, including data-mapping, risk registers, and documentation of the company’s current processes and areas of focus.
- Product Counseling Fundamentals: Build the product and privacy counseling function within the legal team, including processes and operations. Design, implement, and iterate on policies, processes, and procedures to improve the legal team’s engagement model with the product and engineering organizations.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Glean’s CISO and security team on shared goals and objectives. Support the Go-to-Market teams in escalated customer questions related to privacy and help enable the commercial legal function with up-to-date templates and strategies as it relates to privacy
- Teaching and Engaging: Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for Glean’s employees and leadership. Monitor legal and regulatory developments, think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for and minimize risks that may arise in the future. Advise on frontier technologies relative to our product plans, including but not limited to AI, large language model usage, and other integration of third party products into our product offerings.
Qualifications:
- JD and a member of a relevant U.S. state bar in good standing, with ability to obtain status as a registered in-house counsel with the California bar if required
- At least 8+ years of law firm and in-house experience, ideally at a fast-paced technology organization.
- Expertise in global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience counseling technology product teams.
- An ability to translate between business and technical risk and communicate clearly to business and technical constituencies.
- Interest and aptitude for privacy thought leadership on social, industry channels and more.
- Skilled at providing clear, actionable advice that aligns with both business objectives and legal best practices.
- A track record of fostering trust-based relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and delivering exceptional client service.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with a proactive and results-oriented approach to problem-solving.
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Healthcare
- Flexible work environment and time-off policy
- 401k
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development opportunities
- Company events
- Free meals
For California based applicants:
The standard base salary range for this position is $230,000 to $280,000 annually, with competitive equity and benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
