Privacy Counsel
superhumanNew York (NY)
About the role
Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. Superhuman team members in this role must be based in San Francisco Bay Area or New York City, and be able to collaborate in person 2 days a week. About Superhuman Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company's products include Grammarly's writing assistance, Superhuman Docs's collaborative workspaces, Mail's inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here .
The Opportunity:
Superhuman's Privacy Legal Team is on a mission to help reduce human toil by introducing brilliant AI tools, and we're looking for a Privacy Counsel to help bring that vision to life. Superhuman is the AI productivity suite that brings together Grammarly, Coda, and Superhuman Mail, and we're growing quickly, including through acquisitions. That makes this a pivotal moment to join the team and help shape how we build privacy into everything we ship.
You'll partner across Product, Engineering, Security, and the broader legal team, accelerating great ideas with trust by design. You'll advise on a wide range of global privacy laws and on sensitive data, including children's and biometric data. In a small, high-visibility team, your work will directly influence strategic decisions across the company. This is the perfect role for someone who thrives in the space between principles and action, and who is known for finding the 'yes, if...' As a Privacy Counsel on the Privacy Legal Team at Superhuman, you will:
- Be the friendly, go-to privacy partner for legal, product, engineering, marketing, and security teams, advising on data privacy, security, and compliance requirements across issue and product lifecycles
- Give practical, risk-calibrated privacy guidance for legal and business stakeholders based on global privacy and data protection laws (including GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, HIPAA, and U.S. state laws)
- Support privacy M&A diligence and integration from end-to-end, working closely across legal and business teams to help the business move fast and responsibly
- Support, advise on, and drive cross-functional technical implementation for horizontal privacy compliance work, including related to privacy/AI compliance as well as regulated and sensitive data types (such as health, children, and biometrics)
- Develop, improve, and scale privacy reviews, guidance, and playbooks
- Conduct privacy impact reviews, create and maintain documentation, and proactively identify and address potential areas for scale and improvement
- Design and deliver privacy and data protection training for internal teams
- Support the privacy legal team's global regulatory readiness, with a focus on US and European privacy and data protection frameworks, including overlapping AI regulations
- Track industry developments and best practices related to privacy in SaaS, AI, and cloud technologies
Qualifications:
- JD and membership in good standing with at least one US state bar 5+ years of relevant privacy counseling experience, preferably at a major technology company, B2B/B2C AI/SaaS provider, or top law firm
- Deep knowledge of global privacy, security, and data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and experience with sector-specific regulations
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex, ambiguous issues or problems into direct, actionable guidance
- Track record partnering across teams such as legal, product, and engineering in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills
- A team player with high agency, a healthy sense of humor, and low ego
- A history of getting to 'yes, if...' CIPP or other privacy certification is a plus
Compensation and Benefits:
Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:
- Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
- Disability and life insurance options 401(k) and RRSP matching
- Paid parental leave20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
- Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
- Annual professional development budget and opportunities
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.
For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
At Superhuman, we value our differences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).
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