Job Description
The Legal & Compliance team empowers Veriff’s innovation and scalability from a legal front. We advise on best operational practices to deliver a world-class service, ensuring responsibility, compliance, and legal risk mitigation. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving.
We are looking for a Senior Privacy and Product Legal Counsel to serve as a dedicated legal partner for our data-intensive product teams. In this role, you will bridge the gap between product innovation and regulatory excellence, ensuring our technology is built with privacy at its core while maintaining and enhancing Veriff’s global data protection framework.
You’ll help us protect honest people online by:
- Serving as the legal point of contact for designated Product Areas, providing actionable advice on legal and privacy risks, compliance strategies, and supplier engagements.
- Executing privacy-by-design initiatives, ensuring compliance throughout the product lifecycle, and drafting the necessary legal documentation.
- Managing and owning data privacy compliance workflows, including the creation and review of DPAs, DPIAs, LIAs, privacy policies, and public-facing privacy notices.
- Supporting privacy negotiations with customers and suppliers, ensuring Veriff’s interests and obligations are clearly represented.
- Monitoring and analyzing emerging legislation, policies, and legal frameworks (e.g., AI laws) relevant to Veriff’s business.
- Advising on global privacy developments and their impact on our product roadmap and international operations.
- Creating and delivering training materials, guidelines, and internal policies to foster a culture of privacy and compliance.
- Collaborating with outside counsel on specialized jurisdictional or technical legal matters.
You are the right future Veriffian for the job if you have:
- 5+ years of experience in privacy and data protection (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD), preferably within an international SaaS (B2B/B2C) environment as an in-house lawyer.
- A Master’s degree in Law (or equivalent).
- A proven track record of advising product and engineering teams from ideation to launch, including ongoing compliance monitoring and change management, balancing legal risk with business goals.
- Strong organizational and negotiation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a multi-jurisdictional, fast-paced environment.
- Clear communication and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and structured approach to complex legal challenges.
You’re an especially awesome match if you have:
- Technical literacy regarding cloud-based SaaS, cybersecurity, AI/ML, and APIs.
- Experience advising on sensitive data categories, specifically biometrics or identity verification technologies.
- A background in regulated or compliance-heavy tech industries, for example fintechs.
- Recognized certifications such as IAPP (CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM) or other privacy-related credentials.
Why Veriff?
We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career, whilst looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favourites include…
- Flexibility to work from home
- Stock options that ensure your share in our success
- Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
- Comprehensive relocation support to Estonia or Spain
- Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
- Learning and Development & Health and Sports budget that you are free to tailor to your own needs
- Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 5th work anniversary
We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates - so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!
Please be informed that in the final stage of the recruitment process we may request you to go through identity verification. For more information, please see Recruitment Privacy Policy.
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