Senior Counsel, Privacy and Regulatory

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Senior Privacy and Regulatory Counsel

We are looking for a Senior Privacy and Regulatory Counsel to join our Legal team. The person will lead our privacy program and provide legal guidance around artificial intelligence, data protection, and other emerging regulatory topics. This is a great opportunity for a thoughtful, pragmatic, and collaborative attorney with strong business instincts who wants to help shape innovative edge cloud technologies. We are seeking candidates who value working on a strong and diverse team and want to contribute to creating a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment. This position reports to the Assistant General Counsel leading the Product, Technology, and Regulatory team, and will be based out of one of our offices with a preference for San Francisco, CA.

What You'll Do

• Domain Leadership: Architect, scale, and lead a global privacy program, managing stakeholder engagement across the company
• Regulatory Strategy: Manage compliance strategy for emerging regulatory and technical issues related to cutting-edge products and new jurisdictions, including evolving cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI regulations (e.g., NIS2, CRA, ISP-specific frameworks, global privacy laws)
• Policy Management: Design and drive internal company policies, external assets, and sales collateral addressing global privacy, data protection, and other regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, EU Data Act, EU AI Act)
• Regulator Engagement: Respond to regulatory inquiries and investigations, and collaborate with outside counsel where specialized jurisdictional expertise is required
• Product Counseling: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development, incorporating "privacy by design" and similar principles
• Commercial Negotiations: Serve as our subject matter expert on privacy and other relevant regulations in complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements in collaboration with other Legal and business partners 
• Talent Support: Partner with our People team to advise on global employee data protection, workforce privacy initiatives, and talent-related privacy matters.
• Incident Management: Independently manage the legal response to privacy-related incidents
• Process & Training: Draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement on privacy and regulatory matters
• Operational Support: Oversee and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs), and support audits, law enforcement requests, and platform-abuse process and policy

What We're Looking For

• Education & Credentials: JD from a respected institution and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• Experience: 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with significant in-house experience advising on global privacy and regulatory matters at a technology company, especially in the cloud or SaaS space
• Regulatory Expertise: Advanced knowledge of U.S. and global privacy and data protection laws and experience with emerging technology regulations, including AI regulatory schemes
• Program Management: Experience building and managing a privacy program and providing clear, actionable legal guidance to business, product, and engineering teams
• Technical Literacy: Technology industry experience and familiarity with technical concepts such as APIs, encryption, LLMs, and cloud architecture
• Problem-Solving: A pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience
• Execution: Ability to own matters and prioritize, manage, and complete projects independently in a dynamic, evolving environment
• Collaboration: A collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and values building relationships and improving processes

Work Hours

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This position has one opening and can be hired in the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370.00 - $253,644.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

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