Privacy and Security Counsel

We are looking for a Privacy & Security Counsel to join our Privacy & Security Legal team. This role is focused on legal security, and you will provide insights and guidance on a range of such issues from laws and regulations to incidents and policies.

Role is based in our San Mateo, CA office on a hybrid model (Tuesday-Thursday) #LI-Hybrid

You will:

• SME on Law: Provide subject-matter expertise and guidance on the evolving global security and privacy legal landscape, including legislation, regulations, enforcement actions, and best practices,  translating analysis into clear, concise, and actionable guidance to both legal and security teams.
• Incident Response Engagement: Engage with the Detection and Response and Global Security teams during incidents. Provide legal guidance throughout the incident, including during verification, triage, containment, remediation, post-mortem, table-top exercises, counseling internal stakeholders throughout the incident lifecycle, reporting to regulators, and notifying customers to meet our global obligations. 
• Security Compliance Support: Own and deliver complex, cross-functional cybersecurity legal initiatives end-to-end (e.g., new regulatory regimes, major incident response improvements), with clear milestones, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes. Continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks that meet the standards of applicable global data privacy and security laws.
• Security Team Support: Embed within security pods as a trusted partner and go-to legal resource for regular expertise, insights, guidance, and support to different security teams, including Application Security, GRC, Privacy Engineering, Global Security, and Infrastructure/Platform teams, developing a working understanding of Roblox’s architecture, data flows, and operational constraints.
• Cross-Functional Legal Advice: Provide subject matter expertise in privacy and security and support to cross-functional legal advocacy teams, including corporate, employment, compliance, policy, regulatory, product, privacy, and commercial.

You have:

• 5+ years of data security, data privacy, data protection and governance experience.
• Expertise in US and global data security and protection laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of security regulations and frameworks, such as GDPR, NIS2, CCPA, COPPA, CA SB 553, NIST CSF, and PCI.
• Experience working with Information Security teams, including Incident Response, Application Security and Governance.
• Experience with security incidents including, breaches, breach reporting to regulators, customer notifications.
• Experience implementing global data protection and security requirements.
• Training at a major national law firm; in-house experience a plus.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar; California Bar admission preferred.
• Excellent business-oriented judgment.
• Experience operating as a senior individual contributor in a fast-paced technology company, driving complex, cross-functional programs.
• Proven track record of taking ambiguous, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery, using strong project management skills to drive accountability and hit deadlines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to “speak the language of the business” (not the law firm) and tailor messaging to executives, engineers, and operations teams.
• Working familiarity with large-scale, modern infrastructure (e.g., cloud platforms, microservices, observability, incident management tooling) sufficient to understand how technical architectures influence legal risk and incident response.