Senior Corporate Counsel, Product and Privacy

Our Legal team is growing just as quickly as Sprout—and you will too, with varying opportunities to sharpen your craft as the business scales. You’ll have the ability to provide input and ideas to help us solve hard problems, and see the tangible results of your work. As a team, we’re committed to excellence and take our work seriously, but we try not to take ourselves too seriously. Collaborative in nature, we show up each day ready to support each other’s growth and development—and have a lot of fun doing it.

What You’ll Do

• Drive impact and efficiency in product and privacy-related legal review processes by identifying areas for streamlining and serving as a privacy subject matter expert to the Legal team for contract negotiations, partnership agreements, employment matters, product compliance, and incident response.
• Run complex privacy negotiations with enterprise customers and provide strategic advice to Sales and Legal leadership on key deals.
• Create and maintain internal and external Privacy resources, playbooks, data maps, incident response policies, and trainings for Sprout.
• Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk.
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, such as Marketing, Governance Risk and Compliance, Security, Product,  AI/Data Science teams, DPO and outside counsel.
• Support Sprout’s privacy program including leading, monitoring, implementing and improving privacy compliance initiatives with minimal guidance.

What You’ll Bring 

Sprout Social is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and collaborative attorney to join our growing Legal team. As Senior Corporate Counsel, Privacy & Product, you will provide product-focused subject matter expertise and strategic guidance, working closely with cross-functional teams including Commercial, Sales, Engineering and Product teams on privacy-forward issues. This role will help develop and manage Sprout Social’s global privacy program by analyzing global privacy laws,  anticipating future requirements, implementing new and refreshed internal trainings, and keeping pace with constantly evolving global privacy regulations. This person will work closely with and report to Sprout Social’s Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Privacy & Product.

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• Member in good standing of the state bar in which they reside
• At least 5 -7 years of experience in privacy law (a mix of in-house and law firm experience preferred)
• A solid understanding of and maintaining subject matter expertise in areas of data privacy and protection laws (including state and federal consumer protection and privacy laws, GDPR, and other global privacy laws)
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating commercial and data processing agreements with minimal supervision
• Experience advising product teams and working closely with cross-functional teams to build products with a privacy-forward design
• Experience working on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment with strong business judgment, attention to detail and practical counseling skills
• ​​Ability to distill complex legal concepts into easily understandable terms

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
• Experience with global privacy laws, regulations, and industry guidelines, especially those relevant for social media, SaaS companies and emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI
• Experience supporting SaaS commercial teams and familiarity with SaaS, data processing and business associate agreements
• Practical and pragmatic approach to solving complex legal problems
• Experience working with technical and security teams
• Certified Information Privacy Professional certification

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

The base pay range for this role is $160,000 – $200,000 USD annually. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In addition to base pay, some Sales and Success roles can earn sales incentives.