Corporate Counsel - Financial Privacy & Emerging Data Use

About the Role

The Corporate Counsel – Financial Privacy & Emerging Data Use serves as a trusted legal advisor supporting T-Mobile's growing financial products, services, and innovative data initiatives. This role provides strategic counsel on financial privacy and consumer protection laws, including GLBA, FCRA, state privacy regulations, and emerging data privacy requirements, while partnering closely with cross-functional business teams to enable compliant, customer-focused innovation. The position is responsible for assessing privacy risks, guiding product development, supporting compliance programs, drafting policies and contractual provisions, monitoring legislative developments, and delivering practical legal solutions that balance business objectives with regulatory obligations in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Advise the company on privacy laws, regulations, obligations, and industry standards impacting T-Mobile's growing financial products and services portfolio.
• Counsel on Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and state financial privacy laws, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), state omnibus privacy law carveouts for financial data, and emerging consumer financial data privacy laws.
• Advise on privacy considerations for emerging data uses at T-Mobile, including new data-driven products and services, as well as wiretap/recording laws related to AI-enabled products/services.
• Guide privacy impact assessments and similar analyses of existing and proposed products, services, systems, and processes.
• Develop strong business partnerships to help guide the business on privacy considerations for business strategies and products.
• Drive a successful compliance program in these areas through, e.g., drafting of internal and public-facing policies, disclosures, and other documentation and compliance training to raise awareness across the enterprise.
• Draft and negotiate related provisions in commercial contracts as needed.
• Analyze potentially impactful legislation and regulations and provide subject matter expertise to T-Mobile's Government Affairs team.
• Propel other department and team initiatives as assigned.

Requirements

• 3+ years as an in-house, top law firm, or government attorney with relevant experience.
• JD from an ABA-accredited university with outstanding academic credentials.
• Current bar membership (in good standing) in at least one U.S. state.
• Experience with privacy preferred.
• Strong aptitude and enthusiasm for learning new technology.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and advise on highly complex, high-impact matters and navigate ambiguity.
• Demonstrated ability to establish self as subject matter expert in specialty field(s).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to interact with a range of personalities and roles across the business with executive maturity.
• Ability to navigate a complex organization with a focus on delivering results efficiently.
• Keen, pragmatic business sense and good judgment.
• Ability to operate independently and effectively in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Drive to solve customer pain points and Love Our Customers.
• Desire and ability to work as part of a team.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Pay & Benefits

Base Pay Range: $123,200 – $222,200

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

Employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance.

Benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays (which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually), paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, voluntary long-term care insurance, mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs.