Privacy Counsel

Amplitude’s mission is to help companies build better products. By building best-in-class teams, we create best-in-class products that customers love. We approach challenges with humility, we take ownership over our work, and our growth mindset pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers.

We are seeking a Privacy Counsel to help our legal team navigate rapidly evolving global privacy laws and regulations. As a member of the Privacy team, you will provide legal counsel to several business partners as well as help support and mature the privacy compliance program for Amplitude. This role calls for a self-motivated team player who can proactively manage multiple projects and lead cross-functional teams to operationalize privacy priorities. You will report to the Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy.

• Partner closely with our marketing, sales, HR, and other business teams on privacy and data-related matters, developing and providing training, and emphasizing the importance of privacy while delivering practical and business-minded legal advice
• Assess and advise on potential privacy and legal risks and regulatory requirements, including lead generation and marketing outreach activities
• Support privacy program compliance, including data subject rights requests, data inventory, privacy by design, audits, and help operate and improve the effectiveness of critical privacy compliance processes
• Work with key business stakeholders to complete Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new processing activities, IT changes, projects, and data ingests
• Assist with developing marketing collateral to tell our privacy story
• Research and evaluate the applicability and impact of global privacy laws, legislation and regulatory guidance on new business initiatives and processes

You will be a great addition to the team if you have:

• 4 or more years of substantive legal experience, preferably both in-house and at a law firm, advising business on global privacy and data protection laws, regulations, and standards
• A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
• CIPP certification preferred
• Experience working for a company offering Saas services to business customers a plus
• Experience supporting audit cycles and processes a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize and present complex legal ideas simply and understandably to employees at all levels
• Ability to exercise good judgment in raising issues and when collaborating with others
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-energy environment, and capable of dealing with and navigating ambiguity
• Intellectually curious, humble (no task is too big or too small), and—through it all—doesn’t take themselves too seriously

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, delicious in-office lunch, dinner, & snacks, commuting benefits, a 12-week parental leave, a generous Learning & Development stipend, and a full 10 year window to exercise your stock options.

The Product: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform– we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive.

• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• Twenty of the Fortune 100 are now customers of Amplitude as are innovative brands such as Atlassian, Twitter, FuboTV, and Thredup.
• We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on all your numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Amplitude’s D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

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