Senior Privacy Counsel

Who you are

• Qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction where you reside (or equivalent EU qualification)
• Significant post-qualification legal experience in privacy, with substantial experience counseling on EU privacy law (including GDPR; ePrivacy knowledge strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated experience providing product counseling in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to translate legal requirements into clear, practical guidance for Legal, Product and Engineering teams
• Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments, and driving cross-functional mitigations to enable launches while managing risk
• Strong understanding of how modern products handle data (e.g., data flows, analytics, SDKs/APIs, tracking/measurement concepts) sufficient to counsel effectively on privacy-by-design
• Excellent judgment and integrity, with strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with an ability to drive alignment across teams in fast-moving, high-stakes environments
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities with independence, sound judgment, and attention to detail
• Eagerness to learn, strong ownership, and a flexible, collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Demonstrated ability to use AI and other technology tools effectively and responsibly and identify practical opportunities to improve effectiveness, or willingness to learn
• Experience navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance issues for a technology company or similarly dynamic environment preferred
• Familiarity with international data transfer mechanisms (e.g., SCCs and transfer risk assessments) preferred

What the job involves

• As Senior Privacy Counsel (EU), you will provide strategic, product-focused privacy counseling to help Pinterest design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements (including GDPR and ePrivacy)
• In this role, you’ll partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Marketing, and other Legal teams—to embed privacy-by-design into the product lifecycle, guide high-impact launches, and help balance business goals with privacy compliance obligations
• You’ll have the opportunity to shape and execute scalable privacy processes, including leading privacy risk assessments and supporting privacy governance across EU-facing products and features
• Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working
• Provide end-to-end EU privacy product counseling for new products and feature launches, from early design through launch and iteration
• Advise on key GDPR, ePrivacy, DSA, EU AI Act topics, including lawful bases, transparency, consent and choice design, profiling/personalization considerations, data minimization, retention, and data subject rights implications
• Lead and support privacy risk assessments (including DPIAs, where applicable), driving mitigations and documenting decisions in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to operationalise privacy-by-design and scalable privacy controls (e.g., consent enforcement, data access controls, retention/deletion approaches)
• Provide guidance on data sharing and vendor/partner arrangements impacting EU processing, including supporting negotiation of privacy terms and data protection addenda as needed
• Advise on international data transfers for EU data flows, partnering with internal stakeholders and outside counsel where appropriate to support compliant transfer mechanisms and risk mitigations
• Develop and improve scalable privacy workflows, templates, and playbooks to enable consistent, efficient privacy review across multiple teams and roadmaps
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and Legal colleagues to address privacy issues that arise from incidents, complaints, or escalations, and help drive durable process improvements
• Leverage AI-enabled tools thoughtfully and responsibly to improve the efficiency and consistency of privacy counseling and program workflows, while maintaining appropriate legal oversight and quality control