Product and Privacy Counsel

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Almost 2,000 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude also believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion--one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection,--that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

As Privacy & Product Counsel you will play a key role on Amplitude’s legal team and will be responsible for helping drive Amplitude’s privacy program and partnering closely with the business to review and facilitate product development. You must have excellent business judgment and be comfortable balancing the legal risks and the business strategy. You will partner cross-functionally across the company and directly interface with our employees, customers and partners. You will support all aspects of the business. 

As a Privacy & Product Counsel, you will: 

• Assist in developing and maintaining Amplitude’s global privacy program, and related policies, procedures, and training materials
• Maintain subject matter expertise on domestic and international privacy laws, including GDPR and US State privacy laws,  and advise teams across the company on global privacy laws and general regulatory requirements and developments
• Partner with the product, engineering, design, and marketing teams, to proactively support them throughout the product development life cycle 
• Provide legal advice and guidance on marketing campaigns and collateral, and other related marketing activities  to ensure compliance with federal, state, and other relevant laws
• Partner with Information Security team to implement best practices for management and protection of confidential and personal information and to develop appropriate policies for Amplitude 
• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of agreements related to data privacy, including vendor agreements, customer agreements, DPAs, and BAAs
• Assist with the continuous improvement of standard privacy agreements and scale legal operations and processes
• Support the general needs of a growing legal team and business

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• 5+ years of privacy/product counsel experience, and you have a mix of in-house and law firm experience
• CIPP/US, CIPP/E certification 
• A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
• Experience with privacy and data protection issues, including strong knowledge of global privacy laws, including the CCPA and the GDPR
• Broad experience with product counseling, including  unrelated to privacy and data protection issues
• Self-starter who can handle a fast-paced and informal start-up environment where there may be a good deal of ambiguity and need to manage several projects simultaneously
• Collaborative team player with no ego combined with ability to work independently
• You are a great communicator and you know how to talk and write like a human, not a lawyer
• Experience working at a B2B SaaS company preferred but not required

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform