# Senior Privacy Counsel

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: Dublin, IE
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €98,959-€173,178 EUR
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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).

You will 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.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

- Provide guidance on data sharing and vendor/partner arrangements impacting EU processing.

- Advise on international data transfers for EU data flows.

- Develop and improve scalable privacy workflows, templates, and playbooks.

- Collaborate with cross-functional partners and Legal colleagues to address privacy issues.

- Leverage AI-enabled tools thoughtfully and responsibly to improve the efficiency and consistency of privacy counseling and program workflows.

Requirements:

- 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.

- Experience leading or materially supporting DPIAs/privacy risk assessments.

- Strong understanding of how modern products handle data.

- Excellent judgment and integrity, with strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities with independence.

- Eagerness to learn, strong ownership, and a flexible, collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Benefits:

- Base salary range: €98,959-€173,178 EUR

- Eligible for equity

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## Skills

### Required
- GDPR
- ePrivacy
- DSA
- EU AI Act
- privacy law
- product counseling
- DPIAs
- privacy risk assessments
- data sharing
- vendor management
- AI-enabled tools

### Nice to have
- international data transfer mechanisms
- SCCs
- transfer risk assessments

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