VP, Legal
Who We Are
Your Team and Role
VP, Legal
What You'll Do
• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO, executive team, and board on strategy, risk, regulatory developments, and sensitive legal matters.
• 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.
• Work closely with the policy team, acting as a key stakeholder and providing legal counsel as necessary on highest priority US and EU policy matters.
• 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.
About You
• 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.
• Located in the US.
USD annually
paid parental leave, office setup,
Hiring Process
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Please note that
• You'll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
• Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
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Key Principles
Data Privacy
Human Oversight and Accountability
Transparency
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