Job Description:

About the Legal team

Dialpad’s Legal team plays an essential role in assessing risk and protecting the company while advancing business goals. This team collaborates closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Success, and HR teams to improve the company’s overall effectiveness and to manage the myriad legal matters that these teams face. We are an intentionally small, highly competent group of legal professionals focused on velocity, scalability, and rigor to support Dialpad’s continued growth from startup to market leader.

Your role

Dialpad’s Associate Product amp; Privacy Counsel will work with the Senior Product and Privacy Counsel to become a trusted legal advisor on  Dialpad’s products and their interaction with our risks and obligations, such as privacy, security, customer protection, and related regulatory requirements. You will constantly evaluate our legal and technical posture to find ways to shed unnecessary risk while embracing sustainable growth, efficiency, and customer trust. You will act as an advocate for Dialpad’s customers, engineers, sales team, and scientists simultaneously, and find creative solutions for novel legal questions where no templates exist.

Under the direction of the Senior Product and Privacy Counsel, you will:

• Advise internal product and engineering teams on issues related to the development and marketing of Dialpad’s products and technologies. This will include advising on  privacy, data security, and consumer protection issues, as well as regulatory requirements and potential legal risks
• Contribute to creating, improving, and enforcing internal practices, policies, agreements and standards to ensure compliance with global legal requirements across subject matters and product lines, by collaborating with stakeholders throughout the organization
• Assist in the sales process by consulting on negotiation positions for topics within your subject matter expertise, such as Data Protection Agreements, Business Associate Agreements, and product-related provisions 
• Prepare applications, filings, and correspondence to regulators in the US and abroad, including telecom licensing, data mapping, and Data Protection Impact Assessments
• Be a resource internally and externally on complex data and customer trust issues emerging from the development and marketing of products and technologies
• Improve efficiency by building and maintaining resources that turn complex regulations into understandable guidance

Skills you’ll bring 

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
• License in good standing to practice law
• 3-5 years of substantive privacy,  regulatory, compliance, and security experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Law firm or in-house experience advising technology or telecommunications clients on privacy,  regulatory, compliance, and security matters
• Strong research and analytical skills, with the capability to communicate your results clearly and concisely
• Background in tech-forward lawyering; enthusiasm for telecommunications, SaaS, AI and big data a plus

This position reports to our General Counsel and has the opportunity to be based remotely in  North America.

Dialpad benefits and perks

Equity, balance, and belonging

At Dialpad, we strive to ensure that Dialers are free to bring their full selves to work each day, and champion the intersectionality that exists between gender identity, ethnicity, age, disability status, and the many other aspects of our greater humanity.

Culture

We’ve been named a Top Workplace seven times, and a big part of this is because of our collaborative culture that elevates our teammates, celebrates wins, and brings together passion and talent. 

Compensation and equity

Teamwork makes the dream work, and Dialpad offers competitive salaries in addition to stock options because each and every Dialer participates in our success.

Benefits, time-off, and wellness

An apple a day keeps the doctor away—and it doesn’t hurt that we offer flexible time off and great options for medical, dental, and vision plans for all employees. Along with that, employees also receive a monthly stipend to help cover your cell phone bill, home internet bill, home office equipment, gym membership costs, a variety of wellness events, and more!

Continuing education

Dialpad offers a yearly stipend for continued learning and education expenses.