Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description:

• Serve as in-house legal subject matter expert and partner with the executive team on product legal strategy and execution
• Advise on privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support
• Build practical, repeatable systems for responding to privacy questions, particularly for Subscriber Signals
• Develop deep knowledge of Kit, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and the connected ecosystem of products and tools
• Report to the Chief Operating Officer and partner with product, sales, finance, and people operations leaders
• Own core legal work in-house and determine when specialized outside counsel is needed
• Assess legal risk, opportunity, ambiguity, and recurring work during onboarding
• Manage data processing, privacy, AI, and other legal initiatives
• Design scalable privacy support intake, guidance, and escalation systems
• Own GDPR and data compliance vetting
• Establish processes for responding to customer security questionnaires
• Build playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance for recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance questions
• Partner throughout the product lifecycle on initiatives and feature releases
• Prioritize legal risks, reduce reliance on outside counsel, and streamline legal workflows
• Improve Kit’s legal maturity across privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in data, compliance, and product
• Strong ability to navigate U.S. and European data privacy laws, including GDPR and CCPA
• Familiarity with data controller versus processor distinctions
• Ability to translate privacy and compliance requirements into scalable playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance
• Experience supporting customer security questionnaires
• Experience partnering with security, sales, product, and engineering teams
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and its legal, privacy, and customer requirements
• Understanding of intellectual property law related to brand, content, and software
• Understanding of commercial contracts
• Experience as in-house counsel at a tech company or serving a tech portfolio at a top-tier startup-focused firm
• J.D. from an accredited law school in the United States
• Active membership in good standing of a State Bar Association

Benefits:

• Profit Sharing
• Kit equity
• 401k with a 5% match
• Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums; dental and vision premiums fully covered; Aetna health insurance plans
• $2,000 equipment allowance for the first two years, then $1,000 every following two years
• Company-provided laptops
• Individual learning and development budget of $3,500/year
• Gender affirming benefits
• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON
• Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment
• After-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation fully unplugged from work
• Ten (10) paid holidays a year
• Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health and well-being days
• Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in the child’s first year
• Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster leave after six months of employment; two weeks of each paid leave in the first six months
• Winter Break Closure for a week at the end of December
• Four-week paid sabbatical after five years
• In-person or virtual team retreats twice a year