Description:

We're looking for an Associate General Counsel to join the Safety & Law Enforcement Legal team! The Safety & Law Enforcement Legal team provides critical support to An American Camera and Social Media Company's Law Enforcement Operations (LEO), Trust & Safety (T&S), Product, Engineering, Communications, and Policy teams relating to law enforcement requests, investigation and enforcement of Community Guidelines violations, compliance with content moderation and reporting obligations, and cross-functional platform-safety initiatives.

What You'll Do:

Working with An American Camera and Social Media Company's LEO team, you'll help lead efforts to ensure An American Camera and Social Media Company meets its obligations to produce user data to governments while adhering to relevant laws and protecting user privacy.
You'll support An American Camera and Social Media Company's T&S team in connection with the detection of, investigation of, and response to Community Guidelines violations.
You'll collaborate with our Privacy Legal, Product Legal, Policy, Engineering, Communications, and other internal partner teams to provide guidance and develop policies and tools that enable An American Camera and Social Media Company to meet increasingly sophisticated and ever-shifting regulatory and legislative requirements, as well as contributing to a range of cross-functional safety initiatives.
Specifically, you will:

Help support the LEO team on laws and An American Camera and Social Media Company policies governing responses to governmental requests for user data and collaborate on outreach to government authorities.
Work cross-functionally with teams across the company — including Policy, Product, Engineering, and others in Legal — on safety- and compliance-related tooling, and developments in surveillance and safety laws.
Work with outside counsel to defend against improper attempts to obtain user data, including by civil and criminal litigants.
Work with the Policy team on legislative proposals and developments impacting user safety and An American Camera and Social Media Company's data disclosure and reporting obligations.
Support the Policy, LEO, T&S, and Communications teams in responding to inquiries from legislators, regulators, law enforcement, and the press.
Assist in advising the T&S team in matters relating to the enforcement of An American Camera and Social Media Company's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, obligations under content regulations (e.g., E.U. Digital Services Act), and required reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Collaborate with the T&S team on investigations of Community Guidelines violations and advise regarding potential referrals to law enforcement.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Expertise and significant professional experience with criminal investigative process and interpreting laws related to U.S. government surveillance, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (i.e., the Stored Communications Act, the Wiretap Act, and the Pen Register Act). Professional experience with non-U.S. surveillance laws, such as the U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Act 2016, is a plus.
A phenomenal teammate with demonstrated ability to work closely with others in a manner consistent with An American Camera and Social Media Company's values.
Self-starter who is eager to learn and extremely detail-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, think creatively, and accommodate tight deadlines.
Excellent legal and business judgment, as well as outstanding strategic-thinking skills and analytical ability.
Comfort with operating in a fast-paced environment and working on ground-breaking legal and policy matters in an ever-changing legal, policy, and factual landscape.
Professional experience with U.S. and international content regulations (such as NCMEC reporting requirements, the E.U. Digital Services Act, and India's Intermediary Guidelines) and data protection and privacy laws (such as the GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, and e-Evidence Directive) are pluses.

Minimum Qualifications:

J.D. from an accredited university.
Active membership in at least one state bar.
8+ years of proven experience advising clients, conducting legal research, and analyzing complex statutory requirements.
Professional experience with criminal and civil litigation, or litigation relating to government or civil requests relating to ECPA.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience as a prosecutor or other relevant government experience, or experience as in-house and/or outside counsel advising technology companies on law enforcement response, trust and safety, and related matters.
Experience conducting criminal investigations (e.g., child sexual exploitation and drug distribution), or investigating Terms of Service or Community Guidelines violations is a plus.
Santa Monica and Washington, D.C. are preferred locations.