At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft is hiring an outstanding Privacy Counsel to join our expanding Legal team. Help us strengthen and scale Lyft’s privacy practices and compliance as an early member of our privacy function within the Legal team. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of an emerging industry and immediately make an impact with your thoughtful and balanced advice and decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Provide specialist advice on all aspects of privacy law and regulation, including data protection, data retention, and data breach rules
• Review and new initiatives for privacy by design considerations and launch readiness
• Draft and negotiate privacy terms in legal agreements
• Support aspects of Lyft’s privacy compliance programs, including impact assessments, certifications, program assessments and audits, regulatory compliance projects, training, policy development, and incident response
• Collaborate with and support other key departments within Lyft (e.g., Product, Privacy Engineering, Security, Public Policy, Communications)
• Support company engagement with government, industry, and consumer groups on privacy issues

Experience:

• At least 5 years of counseling in data privacy and information security issues. Technical background is a plus
• Subject matter expertise across the privacy law spectrum (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, data breach requirements). CIPP or similar certification is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well and adapt in a dynamic, high-pressure environment
• Experience as a project manager, including working with engineering and product teams to deliver cross-functional results
• Ability to think creatively and comfort with working in new and developing fields and technologies
• Self-motivated with good business judgment
• JD and bar admission
• Good sense of humor

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment  without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.