Privacy Counsel

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

About the Team

Yahoo's Privacy Legal team partners across every part of the business—from advertising technology and AI to media, communications, search, and commerce. Our mission is simple: enable innovation while earning and maintaining user trust.

We are more than a compliance function. We are embedded business partners who help product teams build great products responsibly. We work alongside engineers, product managers, designers, and business leaders from the earliest stages of product development through launch, helping teams solve difficult problems with practical, business focused legal advice.

Our team is known throughout Yahoo for being collaborative, pragmatic, and deeply engaged in the business. We believe the best privacy lawyers don't just identify risk, they help build products.

About the Role

Yahoo is seeking an experienced Privacy Counsel to support and design privacy operational compliance best practices for our advertising and media businesses. 

You will advise on sophisticated privacy, AI, identity, and advertising technology issues while partnering closely with product, engineering, sales, business development, and data science teams. You'll help shape products from concept through launch, influence product strategy, and develop scalable legal frameworks that enable innovation while appropriately managing legal and reputational risk.

If you enjoy working at the intersection of technology, privacy, AI, and digital advertising—and want to help define what responsible data use looks like in the next generation of advertising products—we'd love to meet you.

In this role, you will:

• Partner closely with product, engineering, and business teams throughout the product lifecycle, embedding privacy by design into new advertising products and features from ideation through launch.

• Advise on the privacy implications of advertising technologies, including AI enabled products, machine learning models, personalization, identity resolution, cookie alternatives, first party data strategies, retail media, clean rooms, measurement technologies, and evolving addressability solutions.

• Counsel product teams on U.S., Canadian, and global privacy laws, helping translate complex legal requirements into practical product guidance that supports innovation.

• Advise on consent management frameworks, including Global Privacy Control (GPC), Global Privacy Platform (GPP), IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), and other industry standards, ensuring Yahoo's platforms appropriately implement evolving privacy signals.

• Structure, draft, review, and negotiate privacy and data protection provisions in commercial agreements, including MSAs, DPAs, data licensing agreements, and strategic technology partnerships.

• Advise on cross border data transfers, international privacy compliance, Standard Contractual Clauses, and other global data governance requirements.

• Partner with cross functional teams to conduct privacy impact assessments, AI risk assessments, and data protection reviews for new products and initiatives.

• Support privacy incident response, advising on legal obligations, regulatory notification requirements, and coordination with security, communications, and outside counsel.

• Design scalable legal infrastructure, including playbooks, templates, AI-enabled workflows, and self service guidance, that enables product teams to move quickly while maintaining compliance.

• Represent Yahoo in industry organizations and standards bodies, including the IAB, NAI, DAA, and similar forums, helping shape the future of responsible digital advertising.

About you

• You are an attorney admitted to practice law with approximately 5–7 years of experience advising technology companies on privacy, advertising technology, data governance, or digital media.

• You have significant experience counseling product and engineering teams on privacy issues and enjoy serving as an embedded business partner.

• You possess deep knowledge of U.S. state privacy laws, strong familiarity with Canadian privacy law, and a solid understanding of GDPR and international privacy frameworks.

• You have experience negotiating data protection provisions, DPAs, commercial technology agreements, and complex data sharing arrangements.

• You understand modern advertising technology, including identity solutions, measurement, consent frameworks, clean rooms, first party data strategies, and the rapidly evolving addressability ecosystem.

• You are excited by AI and emerging technologies and have experience, or genuine curiosity, advising on AI enabled products, responsible AI governance, and practical AI adoption. You actively leverage AI tools to improve the quality and efficiency of your work.

• You exercise excellent judgment, are comfortable making decisions in ambiguous situations, and know how to balance legal risk with product velocity and commercial objectives.

• You enjoy collaborating with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists, and can communicate complex legal concepts in practical, actionable terms.

• You are intellectually curious, proactive, and motivated to build scalable legal solutions rather than answer the same question twice.

Bonus Points

• CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or comparable privacy certification.

• Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, DSPs, SSPs, publishers, or digital media.

• Experience participating in industry standards organizations or privacy working groups.

• Familiarity with global privacy frameworks beyond GDPR, including PIPEDA, LGPD, APAC privacy regimes, or emerging AI governance frameworks.

Location

West Coast preferred (San Francisco or Los Angeles), although other U.S. locations will be considered for exceptional candidates.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $122,250.00 - $255,000.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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