Associate General Counsel

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Summary: The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an Associate General Counsel to support the Deputy General Counsel in leading key functions within the Legal team. This role will focus on refining privacy and product counseling workflows, advising Foundation engineers, and ensuring the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with significant management experience, adept at collaborating with technical teams and providing guidance on privacy and security matters.

Requirements

• Experience leading and managing legal teams.
• Expertise in advising online platforms, particularly with privacy and security.
• Strong transactional and product counseling experience.
• Familiarity with online communities.
• Ability to develop and implement legal strategies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise the Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, and Senior Leadership team on legal and regulatory matters, especially pertaining to privacy and security.
• Collaborate with legal department staff members to define and shape a renewed vision and strategy for the Foundation’s privacy team.
• Manage a team providing strong transactional and product counseling support for engineers/technologists.
• Strengthen and improve internal workflows and collaboration relating to product counseling and engineering-related legal advice.
• Oversee an annual refresh of the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy to keep pace with applicable regulation, the protection of user data, and new and evolving features on the Wikimedia projects.
• Support internal and external communication campaigns to educate staff, users, and other stakeholders on the evolution of the policy.

Application Instructions

• Not specified

Company Information

• Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
• Mission: Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world.