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Associate General Counsel, Privacy

Shopify· Legal
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RemotePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Shopify's Regulatory and Privacy Legal team advises on regulatory, privacy, and data protection issues across the platform, supporting product, engineering, partnerships, and regulators while scaling privacy frameworks as the business grows.

Responsibilities

  • Provide privacy counsel on complex product launches, new features, and strategic partnerships — particularly where Shopify is handling merchant and buyer data in new ways.
  • Partner on managing regulatory relationships and responses for privacy-specific inquiries, including from DPAs and US state enforcement agencies.
  • Drive cross-functional privacy initiatives that move the program forward — build resources, frameworks, and playbooks that enable privacy to scale with the business.
  • Advise on data protection aspects of commercial agreements with merchants, vendors, and partners.
  • Partner with Privacy Engineering and Trust on incident response, data governance, and compliance infrastructure.
  • Maintain subject matter expertise in evolving global privacy law — GDPR, CCPA and other state laws, UK data protection, EU AI Act privacy implications, and emerging frameworks.

Qualifications

  • You have a qualifying law degree and license to practice in the US or Canada
  • 4+ years of relevant legal experience — ideally a mix of law firm, government, and/or in-house.
  • Experience advising on privacy and data protection matters, including both GDPR and CCPA.
  • Technical literacy — you need to be able to understand how data flows through systems and why that matters for compliance.

Skills

Required:Privacy law理解 and advisory
Nice to have:Regulatory engagement
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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