Privacy Legal Counsel

Description:

We are looking for a proactive and solution-oriented Privacy Legal Counsel to join our Legal team at monday.com. In this role, you’ll be an integral part of our compliance and product legal efforts, helping shape and implement privacy strategies across the company. You’ll work cross-functionally with Product, R&D, Security, HR and Commercial teams to enhance our global privacy program, support business growth, and provide clear, practical guidance that enables teams to move fast and responsibly, supporting both external and internal products and initiatives.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex legal and technical problems, and brings a strong mix of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. The ideal candidate is not only fluent in global privacy laws but also understands how to operationalize them — turning legal requirements into scalable, business-aligned privacy practices.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on global data protection laws and regulatory developments (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, US state legislation, AI-related privacy legislation, and more), translating complex requirements into actionable business guidance.
• Draft, review, and negotiate privacy contract terms, including data processing agreements (DPAs), business associate agreements (BAAs), and vendor agreements.
• Build and improve internal privacy policies, documentation, and operational processes across the organization.
• Collaborate with teams across the company to embed privacy-by-design principles into product development and company processes.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to assess data use, storage, retention, and access across systems — driving alignment between legal obligations and technical implementation.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIAs), data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), and risk analyses for new products, features, tools, and vendors.
• Respond to internal and external privacy-related questions, audits, or escalations — including customer and partner inquiries — with clear, practical advice and requirements.
• Support vendor risk assessments and onboarding processes to ensure privacy compliance across third-party tools and services.
• Support privacy governance for both external features and internal tools.
• Monitor global regulatory changes, market trends, and enforcement actions to anticipate impact and proactively adapt the company’s privacy practices.
• Partner with Security and other stakeholders on cyber resilience and incident readiness, remediation, and process improvement.
• Drive privacy projects from start to finish, aligning priorities, setting clear timelines, and ensuring delivery.
• Serve as a point of contact for cross-team privacy enablement and training, building awareness and scalable know-how throughout the company.

• Excellent attorney with 4+ years of demonstrated and relevant legal experience working in-house at a technology company or at a law firm, specializing in privacy.
• In-depth understanding and experience with key global privacy regulations and frameworks, with the ability to apply them in a practical, business-aligned way.
• Experience advising on privacy considerations in AI and data-driven products.
• Proficiency in drafting, negotiating, and managing privacy terms and agreements, including privacy policies, DPAs, BAAs, and vendor contracts.
• Passion for technology and the ability to understand product, technical, and business aspects quickly and effectively.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments and adapting to shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Strong sense of ownership, initiative, and accountability - you are independent, take responsibility and see things through.
• Collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a can-do mindset.
• Strong legal and business judgment, creative and pragmatic problem-solver who can find scalable solutions to complex issues.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• CIPP/E and/or CIPP/US certifications are an advantage.