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VP, Legal
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$320K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
VP, Legal
DuckDuckGo
• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO, executive team, and board on strategy, risk, regulatory developments, and sensitive legal matters. • Work closely with the policy team, providing legal counsel on EU and US regulatory matters including DMA, DSA, EU AI Act, and US privacy legislation. • Direct global privacy compliance, ensuring DuckDuckGo products and practices stay ahead of GDPR, US state privacy laws, and emerging data protection requirements. • Direct company legal strategy and outside counsel in complex regulatory and competition proceedings that directly shape DuckDuckGo's business. • Manage and develop the legal team, set priorities, build the legal operating model, and develop team members. • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security on legal implications of AI features, new product launches, advertising formats, and data practices. • Evolve legal operations infrastructure: intake workflows, outside counsel management, budget ownership, and playbooks across key practice areas. • Advise on employment matters, IP strategy, and corporate transactions as DuckDuckGo grows. • Own corporate governance and support strategic transactions, including M&A and financing rounds. • And work on related projects.
Job Requirements
- 15+ years of legal experience, including 10+ years in-house at a consumer-facing technology company.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in legal leadership roles, including 2+ years in positions of comparable seniority (VP, Deputy General Counsel, etc.).
- JD and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
- Familiarity with corporate governance and strategic transactions, including M&A, financing rounds, or board advisory work, sufficient to own these matters as the company grows.
- Deep expertise in at least two of DuckDuckGo's highest-stakes legal domains: privacy/data protection, technology platform regulation, or antitrust/competition law.
- Demonstrated ability to advise executives on complex legal risk and manage significant litigation and regulatory proceedings.
- Track record managing legal teams and outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong commercial instincts and a business enabler known for sound judgment, not reflexive caution.
Benefits
- Compensation is transparent across the organization, and all team members within the same professional level and global region receive the same compensation.
- Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
- Paid parental leave
- Office setup
- Co-working allowances
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