Senior Legal Counsel, Data Privacy - ConvertKit

About Kit

Kit is the email marketing platform experts choose to grow their audience, deepen their relationships, and build a business around the work they love. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform.

More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living. We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote.

We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next.

The Role

Kit is growing, and so are the legal complexities of our business. We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to help us navigate them with clarity, speed, and commercial savvy. You'll serve as an in-house legal subject matter expert, partnering closely with the executive team to lead product legal strategy and execution—especially around privacy, data, AI and compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support for our teams. A key focus will be helping Kit respond to a growing volume of privacy questions—particularly as one of our newer products, Subscriber Signals, evolves by building practical, repeatable systems that provide timely and consistent guidance at scale.

You'll help shape the legal backbone of a fast-moving tech company with multiple revenue streams—including SaaS, digital commerce, paid recommendations, and advertising—and a rapidly growing platform for creators. To advise the business effectively, you'll develop a deep understanding of Kit, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and how creators get value from our connected ecosystem of apps and tools. You'll be at the center of complex, cross-functional problems where product, business, and legal strategy meet—all in service of helping creators build more valuable businesses.

Your Support System

You'll report to our Chief Operating Officer and partner regularly with leaders across product, sales, finance, and people operations. You'll own our core legal work in-house, reduce the need for outside counsel, and know when specialized outside counsel is truly needed.

What You'll Do

• First week: Get up to speed on our business model, current goals, and products. Learn about the product, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and how creators get value from our connected ecosystem of apps and tools. Meet key internal stakeholders and external counsel. Review our common legal agreements, privacy questions, and customer security requests to assess risks, opportunities, ambiguities, or recurring work that can be streamlined.
• First month: Get your arms around active data processing, privacy, AI, and other legal initiatives, and build a "what's on deck" view of upcoming legal needs. Map the recurring privacy support questions across Kit—particularly around Subscriber Signals—and begin designing a scalable intake, guidance, and escalation system. Partner with Sales, Sponsorships, Security, Product, and Engineering. Take ownership of GDPR and data compliance vetting and establish a clear process for customer security questionnaires.
• First six months: Become the go-to partner for legal considerations across the business, particularly for product, engineering, security, and GTM teams. Build scalable systems—such as playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance—for answering recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance questions. Partner throughout the product lifecycle on initiatives and feature releases. Prioritize legal risks, reduce reliance on outside counsel, and streamline legal workflows.
• First year: Help Kit operate at a higher level of legal maturity across privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support. Establish durable systems that allow teams to answer common questions independently while escalating higher-risk matters appropriately. Treat privacy, data, and compliance as strategic enablers rather than tick-box exercises.

Requirements

Skills

• Deep expertise in data, compliance, and product counseling.
• Strong ability to navigate U.S. and European data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), including familiarity with data controller vs. processor distinctions and how they shape vendor and product decisions.
• Ability to translate privacy and compliance requirements into scalable playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance.
• Experience supporting customer security questionnaires and partnering effectively with security, sales, product, and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and the legal, privacy, and customer requirements associated with it.
• Understanding of intellectual property law, especially related to brand, content, and software.
• Strong command of commercial contracts.
• Clear communicator and trusted advisor able to simplify complexity and help others make informed decisions.

Experiences

• Experience as in-house counsel at a tech company or serving a tech portfolio at a top-tier law firm recognized for startup work.
• J.D. from an accredited law school in the United States.
• Active member in good standing of a State Bar Association.

Traits

• Strategic thinker who sees legal as an enabler and lever, not a blocker.
• Deeply curious and business-oriented problem-solver.
• Collaborative partner capable of navigating conflict productively.
• High sense of ownership, speed, and initiative.

Location

Kit is a 100% remote company. For this role, candidates must be located in the United States.

Compensation & Benefits

Kit uses standardized salary levels: this role is leveled as an individual contributor level 4 ($227,000) or level 5 ($252,000).

• Profit Sharing: Regular company profit sharing program.
• Equity: Kit company equity.
• Retirement: 401(k) with a 5% match.
• Healthcare: Up to $2,100/month toward medical premiums (Aetna); dental and vision premiums fully covered.
• Gender-affirming benefits: Dedicated coverage and care support.
• Equipment: $2,000 initial allowance, $1,000 every two years, plus company-provided laptop.
• Learning & Development: $3,500 annual individual budget.
• Childcare: Up to $3,000 annual childcare benefit through JOON.
• Time Off: 20 days paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, and 2 weeks paid sick/mental health leave.
• Paid Paid Vacation: $1,000 after-tax bonus for taking 5 consecutive fully unplugged vacation days.
• Winter Closure: Kit closes for a week at the end of December.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks fully paid parental leave plus flexible scheduling.
• Bereavement & Medical Leave: Up to 6 weeks paid leave after six months of employment.
• Sabbatical: 4-week paid sabbatical after five years.
• Retreats: Semi-annual in-person or virtual team retreats.