Here at Playco, we make games that bring the world closer together through play!
Our ideal teammates are thoughtful, low ego, and hardworking professionals who can both zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture. We are passionate about makers and tinkerers, who are unafraid to experiment with a healthy disregard for constraints. We hope you'll enrich our team with your enthusiasm and passion, both for games and for life.
About this Role
Our Privacy & Product Attorney has deep knowledge and understanding of the opportunities, challenges and risks associated with operating a mobile gaming company at global scale. You play a critical role by providing Product and Engineering teams with timely and practical advice that supports the business in finding solutions which provide Playco users a sense of trust when they play our games. Our ideal team member is a strong written and verbal communicator, is intrinsically motivated, and feels personally rewarded when contributing to a creative and collaborative environment. Prior experience with product development, privacy and data protection, and IP allow you to effectively advise our team in areas of greatest concern to our business and users. Level commensurate with experience.
Who You Are: You are an enthusiastic, collaborative, self-motivated, curious, proactive go-getter, and creative teammate as well as an ambassador for the legal team. You have strong attention to detail, organizational skills, ability to apply good judgment, a love of privacy and product issues, a calling to innovate on ways to improve process and empower your partners, an eagerness to learn new things, and a growth mindset. You are comfortable handling chaos, thrive in a team environment, and are able to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally across many stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Partner across the business, including with the General Counsel, CTO and technical privacy lead to design, roll out, and maintain a holistic privacy program.
- Stay up to date with current privacy, product, and security developments and keep teams apprised of the same.
- Ensure adherence to relevant privacy, content and consumer protection laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally through review of engineering and product design specifications.
- Provide legal guidance and recommendations to Playco’s Product and Engineering teams from inception to launch and throughout the product life cycle.
- Support contract review, particularly around product and privacy relevant terms, for example, Data Protection Addendums.
- Create process for and partner with the business to complete Data Protection Impact Assessments, data inventories, and responses to data subject requests.
- Identify, advise on, and help manage IP issues including trademarks, copyrights, and patents.
- Drive creation and delivery of training materials, including presentations, checklists, FAQs, internal wiki content in ways that not only educate our team members on privacy and consumer protection and their importance, but inspire them to be ambassadors and empower them to move quickly while doing the right thing for our players
- Develop innovative and scalable processes that enable Legal team’s ability to effectively support a fast-moving, globally distributed organization in achieving business results
Requirements
- 4+ years of legal experience in product counseling, including consumer protection, privacy, security, advertising, trademark/copyright, or content regulation law; regulatory and/or in-house experience is preferred but not required.
- Working understanding of current and emerging privacy laws (CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, ePrivacy Directive, EECC)
- Working understanding of current and emerging copyright and trademark laws.
- Ability and strong desire to work in a fast-moving environment, build relationships across the business and work effectively together to solve problems - You welcome diverse perspectives and engage problems with curiosity.
- Teammate by default, exceptional communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a succinct and impactful manner; Ability to integrate into cross-functional teams with a cooperative and participatory approach.
- Strong time management skills and the ability to prioritize multiple projects across functional departments.
- Excellent judgment and ability to work independently, but escalate issues and seek sign off/guidance appropriately.
- Courage to take initiative, address problems, and make continuous process improvements.
- Willing to work on a broad variety of matters - learning new things is exciting to you, and you are willing to roll-up-your-sleeves and help where needed, including documentation.
- Ability to scale and grow with an organization.
- Bar admission or equivalent and in good standing to practice law in your relevant jurisdiction.
Bonus
- Experience as an adviser to gaming companies, social networks, or platforms
- Technical background