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, Privacy and Compliance at Kit — Remote, United States
Advise Kit on privacy, AI, compliance, contracts, security, and product legal strategy for its creator-focused platform. Build scalable legal systems that support products including Subscriber Signals and SparkLoop.
Description
- Act as Kit’s in-house legal subject matter expert and advise the executive team on product legal strategy and execution
- Counsel teams on privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support
- Create practical, repeatable processes for handling privacy questions, especially those involving Subscriber Signals
- Build detailed knowledge of Kit, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and the broader connected product and tooling ecosystem
- Report to the Chief Operating Officer and collaborate with product, sales, finance, and people operations leaders
- Lead core legal work internally and identify when specialist outside counsel is required
- Evaluate legal risk, opportunity, ambiguity, and recurring work during onboarding
- Manage data processing, privacy, AI, and related legal initiatives
- Design scalable intake, guidance, and escalation processes for privacy support
- Lead GDPR and data compliance reviews
- Create processes for addressing customer security questionnaires
- Develop playbooks, templates, intake workflows, and self-service guidance for recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance matters
- Partner with teams across the product lifecycle on initiatives and feature releases
- Prioritize legal risks, reduce dependence on outside counsel, and improve legal workflows
- Advance Kit’s legal maturity across privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support
Requirements
- Extensive expertise in data, compliance, and product matters
- Ability to interpret and apply U.S. and European privacy laws, including GDPR and CCPA
- Understanding of the distinction between data controllers and data processors
- Ability to turn privacy and compliance obligations into scalable playbooks, templates, intake workflows, and self-service guidance
- Experience handling customer security questionnaires
- Experience collaborating with security, sales, product, and engineering teams
- Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and its legal, privacy, and customer implications
- Knowledge of intellectual property issues involving brands, content, and software
- Knowledge of commercial contracting
- Experience serving as in-house counsel at a technology company or advising a technology portfolio at a top-tier startup-focused firm
- J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school
- Active membership in good standing with a State Bar Association
Benefits
- Profit-sharing program
- Kit equity
- 401(k) with a 5% match
- Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, fully covered dental and vision premiums, and Aetna health plans
- $2,000 equipment allowance for the first two years, followed by $1,000 every two years
- Company-provided laptop
- Individual learning and development budget of $3,500 per year
- Gender-affirming benefits
- Childcare benefit of up to $3,000 annually through JOON
- Twenty days of paid time off per year of employment
- After-tax $1,000 bonus for taking five consecutive vacation days fully disconnected from work
- Ten paid holidays per year
- Two weeks of paid sick leave annually, including mental health and well-being days
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave plus flexible scheduling during the child’s first year
- Up to six weeks of paid bereavement, medical, and disaster leave after six months of employment, with two weeks of each leave available during the first six months
- One-week Winter Break closure at the end of December
- Four-week paid sabbatical after five years
- In-person or virtual team retreats twice per year