Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
51 – 200 Employees
eCommerceMarketingSaaS
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is a SaaS company building email-focused tools for creators who want to grow sustainable, purpose-driven businesses. Its platform brings together email marketing, audience engagement, customer journey automation, landing pages, personalized content recommendations, sales automation, and integrations with other services. Kit serves creators such as authors, bloggers, and YouTubers by helping them build direct relationships with their audiences and manage the business side of their work.

Senior Legal Counsel, Data Privacy (United States Remote)

Lead privacy, AI, compliance, and commercial legal work for Kit’s creator-focused marketing platform. Build scalable legal systems that support Kit’s global ecosystem of creator products.

Description

  • Act as Kit’s in-house legal subject-matter expert and advise the executive team
  • Lead product legal strategy across privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support
  • Create practical, repeatable processes for addressing privacy questions, including those involving Subscriber Signals
  • Provide legal guidance on Kit, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and the broader creator-tools ecosystem
  • Report to the Chief Operating Officer and collaborate with leaders across product, sales, finance, people operations, security, sponsorships, and engineering
  • Manage core legal matters internally and determine when specialized external counsel is appropriate
  • Evaluate legal risks, opportunities, uncertainty, and recurring work during onboarding
  • Anticipate legal needs and develop scalable privacy intake, guidance, and escalation processes
  • Lead GDPR and data-compliance reviews
  • Create processes for handling customer security questionnaires
  • Develop playbooks, templates, intake workflows, and self-service resources for recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance matters
  • Partner across the product lifecycle on initiatives and feature launches
  • Prioritize legal risks, reduce dependence on external counsel, and improve legal workflows
  • Help advance Kit’s privacy, compliance, product-counsel, commercial-contracts, and security-support functions

Requirements

  • Extensive expertise in data, compliance, and product legal matters
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. and European privacy laws, including GDPR and CCPA
  • Understanding of data-controller and data-processor classifications
  • Ability to turn privacy and compliance obligations into scalable playbooks, templates, intake workflows, and self-service resources
  • Experience handling customer security questionnaires and collaborating with security, sales, product, and engineering teams
  • Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and related legal, privacy, and customer obligations
  • Knowledge of intellectual-property issues involving brands, content, and software
  • Solid understanding of commercial contracts
  • Clear communicator who can serve as a trusted legal advisor
  • Experience as in-house counsel at a technology company or advising a technology portfolio at a leading startup-focused firm
  • J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school
  • Active membership in good standing with a state bar association
  • Strategic, commercially minded, collaborative, and creative approach to problem-solving
  • Based in the United States
  • Legally authorized to work in the country of residence
  • Able to work without current or future visa sponsorship

Benefits

  • Profit-sharing program
  • Kit equity
  • 401(k) with a 5% company match
  • Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered through Aetna
  • $2,000 equipment allowance during the first two years and $1,000 every two years thereafter
  • Company-issued laptop
  • $3,500 annual learning and development budget
  • Gender-affirming benefits
  • Childcare support of up to $3,000 per year through JOON
  • Twenty days of paid time off per year
  • After-tax $1,000 bonus for taking five consecutive days of fully disconnected vacation
  • Ten paid holidays annually
  • Two weeks of paid sick leave each year, including mental health and well-being days
  • Twelve weeks of paid parental leave plus flexible scheduling during the child’s first year
  • After six months, up to six weeks of paid bereavement, medical, and disaster leave; during the first six months, two weeks of each paid leave
  • One week of company-wide paid winter closure at the end of December
  • Four-week paid sabbatical after five years
  • In-person or virtual team retreats twice each year, with fully remote work available
  • 100% remote work

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