Global Privacy Counsel, Payments
- New York City, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Actively monitor, brief, and advise colleagues in GPRA and cross-functional stakeholders on global privacy laws and new legislative and regulatory developments impacting ByteDance's global payments business. Help drive global payments privacy strategy.
- Review new products, product features, and initiatives, including the use of AI, to identify relevant legal and regulatory requirements impacting the payments business and guide compliance with privacy and data protection laws and internal policies. Coordinate with regional counsel and cross-functional stakeholders to align multi-jurisdictional assessments and facilitate global privacy design and compliance efforts.
- Advise on privacy compliance requirements as part of new payments and financial services license application processes, driving privacy compliance programmes supporting such initiatives.
- Advise on payments-related privacy questions, including those related to the collection and use of data in connection with payments transactions, AML/KYC processes, data retention, and cross-border data transfers.
- Support the development of internal and external global privacy policies, notices, processes, standards and guidelines relevant to the payments business.
- Assess and advise on third-party relationships, including data processing agreements and negotiation of privacy-related contract terms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of privacy and data protection policies and controls across the payments business.Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications:
- Juris Doctorate from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) and qualification to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction
- 4+ years of privacy-related legal experience
- In-depth knowledge of global privacy laws and payments industry data protection standards, including CCPA, UK GDPR and EU GDPR, FCRA, PCI-DSS, and NIST
-Experience advising on privacy matters impacting payments business processes, such as those related to KYC/AML, payments processing, buy-now-pay-later, and vendor relationships
-Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholdersPreferred Qualifications:
- Extensive legal experience
- CIPP certification in one or more jurisdictions
- Experience advising on global privacy laws and regulations and reporting requirements in the payments or financial services sector