Senior Privacy Counsel

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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 EU privacy product counseling for new products and feature launches, from early design through launch and iteration.
• Advise on key GDPR, ePrivacy, DSA, EU AI Act topics, including lawful bases, transparency, consent and choice design, profiling/personalization considerations, data minimization, retention, and data subject rights implications.
• Lead and support privacy risk assessments (including DPIAs, where applicable), driving mitigations and documenting decisions in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to opera