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Senior Legal Counsel, Children Online Privacy and COPPA Compliance
Employment Type: Full Time Location: DC/VA area (preferable)/Remote
Minimum Experience: Director
Pixalate is an online trust and safety platform that protects businesses, consumers and children from deceptive, fraudulent and non-compliant mobile, CTV apps and websites.
Our software and data have been used to unearth multiple high profile criminal and predatory surveillance cases, including:
- Gizmodo: An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
- Adweek: A 7-Figure Ad Fraud Scheme Running on Roku Underlines Murkiness of CTV
- Washington Post: Your kids’ apps are spying on them
- Pro Publica: Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
- ABC7 News: The State of Children's Privacy Online
- NBC News: How many apps are tracking your children
Our team of lawyers, data scientists, engineers, economists and researchers span globally with presence in California, New York, Washington DC , London and Singapore.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Pixalate is growing our Children online safety team and looking for a senior privacy counsel to engage with product, engineering, policy makers and stakeholders to champion children’s safety and privacy online.
You will be the subject matter expert of relevant children online privacy laws, including COPPA and ongoing relevant regulatory changes at the State and Federal levels for children online safety
RESPONSIBILITIES
- In-house expert in COPPA, children data protection and online safety laws
- Advocate Children’s online privacy internally and externally
- Drive the vision, strategy, direction and roadmap of the Children Online Safety Product
- Co-own the product roadmap with the Product, Engineering and Data Science teams
- Understand the data governance and public policy implications of data privacy in online advertising
- Regularly engage with legislators and regulators to identify key policy changes
- Work with the global team to develop briefing papers, blog posts, presentations, consultation responses and conduct webinars, brown bags and client presentations.
QUALIFICATION
- Experience and interest in Children online privacy and COPPA compliance
- Knowledge of California online privacy laws/Age appropriate design code
- 3 years of experience with data privacy regulatory requirements and compliance issues
- Excellent writing and proofreading skills
- Experience in a trade association, think-tank, university, consulting, law firm, compliance, and in-house
- Degree in Law/Technology related subject
- Prior experience working in data privacy, AI or data security
- CIPP (or equivalent) certification
- Major law firm, inhouse or government experience
BENEFITS
We focus on doing things differently and challenge each other to be the best we can be.
- Excellent benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Premiums 100% covered for employees and 50% covered for dependents
- Unlimited PTO
- 401k
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Casual, remote work environment
- Hybrid, flexible hours
- Opportunity for advancement
- Fun annual team events
- Being part of a high performing team that wants to win and have fun doing it
- Extremely competitive compensation