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Corporate Counsel, Product Privacy

Intuit · Oakland, CA · Yesterday
On-siteLegal$199k–$269k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Provide practical, product-focused counseling to teams building consumer and business experiences across tax, money, mid-market, and Intuit Services.
  • Embed privacy into product development by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Security, and Marketing from early concept through launch.
  • Advise on privacy-by-design controls including data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and customer choice.
  • Support privacy requirements tied to tax and financial data handling, including advising on tax return information confidentiality (e.g., IRC7216 and related rules) and related internal governance expectations.
  • Help teams navigate privacy implications of sensitive data, identity verification, and customer support/service journeys that touch regulated datasets.
  • Counsel on customer-facing disclosures and UX patterns (e.g., just-in-time notices, consent flows, preference centers, permissioning, and in-product education) to ensure experiences are clear, consistent, and defensible, and to reduce “dark pattern” risk.
  • Conduct and document privacy impact assessments and provide launch guidance, including risk framing, mitigations, and durable decision records.
  • Support data sharing and ecosystem questions (first/third-party, vendors, partners, internal platform services), including governance and contractual expectations (in partnership with commercial counsel as needed).
  • Build and improve scalable tools—templates, playbooks, intake paths, and training—to help product teams move faster with confidence.
  • Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders and drive alignment across competing points of view to reach practical outcomes.
  • Contribute toward the communication of the Privacy Team’s mission and vision to internal partners and stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of relevant legal experience (in-house and/or at a law firm).
  • Strong working knowledge of relevant data privacy laws in the US (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, other state privacy laws, GLBA, etc.).
  • Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into forward-looking and actionable policies, frameworks and guidelines.
  • Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, and with outside counsel in domestic and international markets, on issues related to data privacy, product design and functionality, transactional issues, and other technology initiatives.
  • Ability to engage in and document detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess privacy and other legal risks.
  • A learning mindset and comfort operating in the gray.
  • Ability to communicate with business partners about regulatory obligations, risk management processes and drive change.
  • Concise and efficient communicator.
  • JD and membership in good standing with at least one US State Bar.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting tax, fintech/money movement, lending-adjacent products, or other regulated data environments.
  • Familiarity with international privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR/ePrivacy, PIPEDA).
  • Familiarity with Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and their application in product development, data governance, and data sharing arrangements.
  • Experience in data analytics/data science or a background in technology or engineering.
  • IAPP Privacy certification (CIPP or CIPT) preferred, but not required.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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