Senior Privacy Counsel

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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