General Counsel
About the role
Optery seeks a mission-aligned General Counsel to build and lead the legal function, oversee commercial, regulatory, and governance matters, scale privacy and data-broker compliance, and support strategic initiatives including funding, equity, and potential M&A for a AI-driven privacy tech startup.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key advisor to the CEO, Board of Directors, and leadership team on legal, regulatory, and risk matters.
- Draft, review, manage, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including B2B SaaS, vendor, and partnership contracts. Create processes and systems for manage greater volumes across each of these areas.
- Lead our data privacy and regulatory compliance efforts.
- Maximize data broker compliance with Optery’s opt out requests by: communicating directly with non-compliant data brokers to compel compliance; building collaborative relationships with state enforcement bodies (e.g., CPPA, State Attorneys General, Departments of Justice); assembling evidence of non-compliance and filing complaints with regulators to enforce compliance with consumer data privacy laws.
- Support corporate governance, board matters, and equity administration.
- Support financing transactions, equity and debt instruments, and potential M&A activity.
- Advise on employment matters, intellectual property, and risk mitigation.
- Manage outside counsel relationships and develop internal legal processes and policies.
- Build and lead the legal function, including potential future legal hires.
Qualifications
- 8–15 years of legal experience, with time spent at a top-tier law firm and in-house at a technology or privacy-focused company.
- Strong expertise in U.S. consumer data privacy law and regulatory frameworks; familiarity with enforcement trends under the CCPA, VCDPA, CPA, TDPSA, OCPA, and other state data privacy laws.
- Demonstrated experience navigating or working with regulatory agencies such as the CPPA, Attorney General offices, Departments of Justice, or FTC.
- Strong background in commercial contracts, corporate governance, and startup equity and debt financing matters.
- Excellent communicator and negotiator with a bias for action and pragmatism.
- Passion for consumer privacy and motivation for holding data brokers accountable to privacy laws.
- Track record of professional success and achievement.
- Licensed to practice law in the U.S. (California preferred, but not required).
Benefits
- Great health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k program with employer match
- Paid time off policy
- Stipend for home office setup
About Optery
Opt out software that removes your private info from the internet
Optery is automated opt out software, and we serve individuals, families and businesses. With Optery, you can remove yourself from hundreds of data brokers that are posting and selling your home address, phone number, email and other private information on the internet. Optery received the “Editors’ Choice” award by PCMag as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Attack Surface Management, Digital Footprint Management, and Employee Privacy Protection in 2024 and 2025, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top InfoSec Innovator and Best Attack Surface Management awards in 2024 and 2025, the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023. In 2025, Optery was also listed by Business Insider as one of 30 early-stage startups most likely to become a unicorn. Optery prevents phishing and social engineering, identity theft and fraud, online stalking and harassment, ransomware, doxxing, and prevents people's private information from showing up in Google search results. Anyone can create a free account to receive a personalized Exposure Report with live screenshots summarizing where your information is being posted and sold online. Optery then provides free tools for self-service removals, or you can upgrade to a paid plan, and Optery will remove the profiles for you. Optery for Business serves enterprises removing personal information from the internet for their employees and executives, and offers an API enabling application developers to embed data broker scanning and removal technology into their applications.
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