Skill Compatibility Diagnostics
Live technical match evaluated against role architecture & expected skills.
You have foundational skills, but may need to brush up on a few key required domains before the technical loop.
Your skills are processed strictly in-memory and never saved to a database.
About the Role
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart's global privacy program is scaling rapidly alongside the growth of its e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines, and the regulatory landscape is evolving faster than ever. As Privacy Counsel, you will embed privacy into how Instacart builds and operates, ensuring product, engineering, data science, advertising, health, and business development teams have clear, practical guidance as they move quickly.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Actively monitor global privacy and data protection developments, translating enforcement trends into clear, actionable guidance that business stakeholders can act on.
- check_circle Review and counsel new products and business initiatives across e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines through privacy requirements, embedding compliant design from the start.
- check_circle Ensure Instacart's advertising business operates with clear frameworks for data use, audience targeting, measurement, and consent, including well-governed restrictions on sensitive data in advertising contexts.
- check_circle Assess and govern data sharing arrangements with retail partners, advertisers, vendors, and subsidiaries, ensuring DPAs, BAAs, and cross-border transfer mechanisms (SCCs, DPF) are in place.
- check_circle Strengthen privacy program operations by supporting PRAs and DPIAs, running intake and documentation processes effectively, and creating standard guidance, templates, playbooks, and training materials.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check J.D. from a top-tier law school; membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California required or ability to register as in-house counsel)
- check 6+ years of experience focused on privacy and data protection, at a leading law firm, in-house, or both
- check Deep working knowledge of CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, and the evolving landscape of U.S. state privacy and health data laws
- check Experience advising on adtech, data sharing, and consumer data use in a retail, e-commerce, or platform environment
- check Strong ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance for non-legal stakeholders
- check Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development (Preferred)
- check Experience in AdTech (Preferred)
About Instacart Greenhouse Board
Verified hiring organization details.
Instacart Greenhouse Board is a remote hiring entity operating within the United States technology and software sector, associated with Instacart's broader recruitment and organizational infrastructure. Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America, operating an online grocery shopping and delivery service that connects customers with retailers. The engineering and technology teams at Instacart build and maintain complex distributed systems, logistics platforms, machine learning models for recommendations and search, and scalable web and mobile applications.