Privacy Counsel

• At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, France, Singapore, and Japan.
• We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture:
  Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
• Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.
  
  Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

We’re hiring a Privacy Counsel to be a core member of Sierra’s legal team. You’ll help build privacy compliance end-to-end and partner closely with product, engineering, and business teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and data governance into how Sierra’s platform is built and operated. You’ll be part of a legal team that is highly respected within both the company and the broader legal industry—committed to excellence, collaboration, and making a meaningful impact.

• Help shape privacy and data protection compliance globally, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and emerging AI-specific regulatory frameworks.
• Build and scale Sierra’s privacy program — policies, playbooks, risk frameworks, and training.
• Monitor global privacy and AI regulatory developments and counsel leadership on implications for Sierra’s products and customers; develop specific privacy expertise in core industries such as healthcare and financial services.
• Develop and implement privacy and AI governance policies and frameworks to ensure responsible deployment, ethical data usage, and regulatory adherence.

• 3-5 years of legal experience, with at least 3 years of large law firm experience.
• Strong working knowledge of global privacy regimes and data protection frameworks, with comfort advising on novel AI implications.
• Ability to partner closely with technical teams to develop a deep understanding of Sierra’s products.
• Ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, product-ready guidance.
• Sound judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward action in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with both legal and non-legal stakeholders.
• A strong work ethic with an eye for detail. You will strive for perfection, and expect that of others.
• Be a team player first and foremost. Sierra is a unique place to work, with a strong sense of togetherness, and the legal team is no exception. You will look out for your colleagues, be accustomed to sharing and helping the team succeed.
• Direct experience with SaaS or AI-driven products and related privacy challenges.
• Experience advising on commercial contracts (SaaS agreements, DPAs, vendor terms).
• In-house experience at a high-growth technology company.
• Law firm experience at a top-tier, internationally recognized law firm.

• Trust
  :
  We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality,
• and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
• Customer Obsession
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  We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and
• relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
• Craftsmanship
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  We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system
• architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right,…