Privacy & Product Counsel

dbt Labs is a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. This role is open to individuals based in the United States.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Be a trusted advisor to product managers, engineering, product marketing managers, and security teams, ensure compliance, respond to incidents, and revise and update policies, processes, and documentation governing data and product releases. Embed ethical AI standards across AI-enabled features and safeguard data privacy.
• Contribute to overall company success, draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of privacy and technology contracts and other legal documents, including privacy policies and notices, DPAs, BAAs, Security Addenda, licensing agreements, reseller, strategic partnership agreements, and data-related vendor-side contracts. 
• Support commercial legal staff with respect to licensing IP and AI, privacy obligations, international data transfers, regulatory compliance, subprocessor, consent and notice obligations and other liabilities. 
• Collaborate with other internal cross functional stakeholders, including go-to-market, support, professional services, security, people business partners, finance, operations, accounting, data, and marketing to ensure our business goals and internal ethical standards are informed by regulations and laws governing consumer protection, cybersecurity, AI, privacy and data protection (including GDPR, HIPAA, FTC, CCPA, CAN-SPAM, DORA, the privacy principles, the EU AI Act, and the EU Data Act, etc). 
• Track, analyze, and provide guidance on legal and regulatory changes and controls for the development of products and services. Spot and escalate privacy/AI compliance or governance gaps and recommend appropriate mitigation. 
• Enable legal team alignment, create/update playbooks, revise legal templates, mentor other legal and contract professionals on the team, and create robust, repeatable, transparent legal collaboration processes while prioritizing automation wherever possible.

You are a good fit if you have:

• Membership in the bar in at least one U.S. State.
• 7+ years of combined law firm/ in-house B2B SaaS legal team experience.
• 3+ years as privacy, AI and/or product counsel with expertise in governance of privacy and/or AI and negotiating AI addenda, DPAs and BAAs with Fortune 500 and other clients and vendors. 
• Experience reviewing risk assessments (DPIAs, AI Assessment, etc), data inventories, DSARs, data mapping, data retention practices and appropriate safeguards, audits, or mitigations.
• Curiosity, creativity and a passion for solving problems, breaking new ground, and recommending simple so...