Privacy Counsel

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Do you love taking on big challenges without precedent? Do you possess a deep knowledge of the legal field and a passion for innovation? As a part of our Legal group, you’ll help uphold Apple’s high ethical and corporate standards, as well as defend our intellectual property, by providing legal support for all our products and businesses across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your deep legal expertise to rare and often unexplored aspects of the law.

As Privacy Counsel you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and experienced team on privacy issues impacting Apple’s business and products globally. You will work directly with business and engineering teams to design innovative privacy solutions for products as well as across the legal department on Apple activities and regulatory issues.

About the role

You will be responsible for advising and providing support on privacy related topics for Apple’s various products and services and working alongside legal, engineering and business teams. This role will be on the Privacy Legal team that supports teams working on Apple’s Siri and AI efforts, and more. It will report through the Privacy Legal team’s product counseling group and will work closely with our privacy policy colleagues in helping advise the business and engineering teams on cutting-edge privacy issues.

Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of general privacy laws, regulations, requirements and industry best practices.
• Advising the business on legal, regulatory, and business standards.
• Supporting and monitoring a privacy program, as needed, to ensure that technology and business processes meet applicable legal requirements.
• Coordinating internal and external investigations, compliance reviews and monitoring activities.
• Identifying and communicating potential risks areas with leadership.
• Staying informed of and properly communicating any changes to or developments in privacy laws, regulations, standards, and guidance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of comprehensive privacy laws, and regulatory and other guidance and standards.
• Deep understanding of US state and federal sector-specific privacy laws.
• Ability to clearly organize and inform through excellent written and verbal communications.
• Experience quickly issue-spotting, analyzing, and clearly communicating privacy advice on complex legal issues.
• Strong analytical capability with attention to detail.
• 4+ years of privacy experience as an associate at a premier law firm or business.
• JD or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing strategic and practical advice to product, business, and engineering teams.
• Experience drafting and negotiating privacy related contracts.
• Experience advising on regulatory compliance and inquiries.
• Ability to lead, take action, and provide direction in the face of ambiguity.
• Ability to get results in diverse, fast paced environments.
• Ability to partner at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent academic credentials.
• In-house experience.