Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Product and Privacy

Description: 

Sprout Social’s Legal team is hiring a Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Product & Privacy to lead the newly-created Product legal team and the existing Privacy legal team. This role will report directly into the Company’s General Counsel as a member of the Legal leadership team and work cross-functionally with the Product, Engineering, Partnerships and Governance, Risk & Compliance teams.

Why join Sprout’s Legal team? 

Our Legal team is growing just as quickly as Sprout—and you will too, with varying opportunities to sharpen your craft as the business scales. You’ll have the ability to provide input and ideas to help us solve hard problems, and see the tangible results of your work. As a team, we’re committed to excellence and take our work seriously, but we try not to take ourselves too seriously. Collaborative in nature, we show up each day ready to support each other’s growth and development—and have a lot of fun doing it. 

What you’ll do 

• Serve as the lead counsel in providing comprehensive, proactive and business-forward product legal counseling to the Engineering and Product teams. 
• Build a product advisory function within the Legal team, including mentoring junior attorneys to become proficient in this space. 
• Lead the Privacy legal team, responsible for supporting the business in evaluating the impact of privacy laws, regulatory guidance, and enforcement actions and developing and implementing frameworks and processes to ensure Sprout Social meets its obligations under global privacy laws and other regulatory frameworks relevant to its business.
• Engage with product development and engineering leaders ensuring that privacy by design is a consistent practice across all Sprout Social products and services and create norms and practices of collaboration to ensure the Product and Privacy team are able to build on these processes.
• Be a thought leader for the business on emerging technologies and evolving compliance requirements and translate the legal terms into business requirements, guidance, and advice.
• Create norms and processes to ensure the Product and Privacy team are engaging with the Product and Engineering teams to understand the product roadmap and priorities, to ensure legal considerations are considered during development of products and services. 
• Collaborate with the Partnerships team and supporting legal team members to ensure compliance with developer terms and cross-functional alignment. 
• Ensure the Product and Privacy team have created a brand of business minded attorneys and paraprofessionals that accelerate business priorities. 

What you’ll bring 

We are seeking a business-minded attorney with an ability to think on their feet and solve hard problems that move the business forward while managing risk. This individual must be a proven leader with the ability and desire to coach and mentor both senior and junior attorneys and professional staff. This individual must be comfortable navigating gray areas, be a strong communicator and have strong project management skills enabling this person to move work forward in a results and deadline-driven environment. Decisiveness and exceptional legal judgment are paramount.   

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• Law degree with strong academic credentials and active membership in a U.S. state or international bar
• Minimum 12 years total legal experience 
• Minimum 6 years of related experience specializing in product development, privacy or emerging technologies, preferably with both law firm and in-house experience 

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Deep expertise in privacy and technology issues impacting the Martech and social media industry preferred 
• Extensive experience leading cross-functional teams on large and complex projects
• Significant experience mentoring junior attorneys and paraprofessional staff in privacy and product advisory areas  
• Proficient with data privacy issues related to the use of AI and Generative AI

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program 
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, eq