Sr. Lead Counsel, Privacy

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About Pinterest Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. As a Pinterest employee, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping users make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

As Senior Privacy Counsel (EU), you will provide strategic, product-focused privacy counseling to help Pinterest design, build, and scale products in compliance with EU privacy requirements (including GDPR and ePrivacy). In this role, you’ll partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Marketing, and other Legal teams—to embed privacy-by-design into the product lifecycle, guide high-impact launches, and help balance business goals with privacy compliance obligations. You’ll have the opportunity to shape and execute scalable privacy processes, including leading privacy risk assessments and supporting privacy governance across EU-facing products and features.

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What you’ll do:

• Provide end-to-end privacy counseling, including to the Trust & Safety and Product teams on products, features, tools, and operations, from early design through launch and iteration.

• Advise on global privacy and data protection issues arising in the Trust & Safety context, including platform abuse prevention, content moderation, user reporting, enforcement operations, account integrity, age assurance, identity-related signals, automated decision-making, and sensitive data handling.

• Counsel on key legal and regulatory privacy and privacy adjacent frameworks including EU GDPR, ePrivacy, UK GDPR, CCPA, UK Children’s Code, California AADC, and other global privacy laws, with familiarity in adjacent issues involving online safety, transparency, and accountability.

• Lead and support privacy risk assessments, including DPIAs where applicable, and drive practical mitigations in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Partner closely with Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering, Security, Regulatory, and other Legal teams to operationalize privacy-by-design in systems, workflows, and investigations.

• Support development of scalable governance frameworks, review processes, templates, and playbooks to enable efficient and consisten...