Counsel of Privacy and Product, Persona
$150-180k
+Equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
+Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 5 to 8 years of relevant experience, either in-house or at a firm
- A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
- Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space
- Strong knowledge of state, federal and international privacy laws and regulatory frameworks including several of the following: CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, BIPA, GLBA & FCRA
- Experience with maintaining and creating privacy policies, impact assessments and related privacy program documents
- Excellent communication skills
- Quick learner with good judgment
- Fluency translating legal advice into actionable guidance for innovative product and business teams
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively
- Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
What the job involves
- As our Product & Privacy Counsel, you’ll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal guidance on privacy compliance and product development initiatives
- You will also provide support and advice to the commercial legal team, who are involved in complex negotiations with customers and product related vendors
- You will partner with our product team to develop new products and features while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance
- As we are a small legal department you will report to the General Counsel, and your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact
- This role will be based in our office in San Francisco
- Become a subject-matter expert in the Persona products building close connections with the product team
- Provide guidance to product teams related to new and existing products and features
- Manage privacy-related compliance, including managing our privacy program and assessing privacy regulations in various jurisdictions
- Advise on privacy matters relating to complex vendor agreements affecting the company’s products
- Support revenue deals by collaborating with our commercial legal team to provide clear and concise counsel on privacy issues for customer deals, including DPAs and questionnaires
- Support various privacy matters including supporting data mapping, privacy by design, impact assessments, vendor data protection, privacy notices and policies, subject access requests, and incident response
- Remain up-to-date on relevant industry, consumer protection, and privacy laws and regulations to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound compliance advice
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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