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.