Senior Corporate Counsel San Francisco

Pager Duty, Inc. (NYSE:

PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, Pager Duty is essential for delivering always‑on digital experiences to modern businesses.

Join us. At Pager Duty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award‑winning workplace.

Pager Duty is seeking an experienced attorney with a strong privacy, data protection, and marketing/advertising background to join our Legal team. The ideal candidate has shown the ability to build deep expertise in privacy, marketing, and advertising law, and to effectively build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders. This person is also a highly motivated team player who loves to learn and is excited to make an immediate impact on the company’s values and growth, with the ability to think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for the privacy landscape of the future.

This role is expected to come into the San Francisco office 2 days per week as part of Pager Duty’s hybrid work model, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

• Scale and mature Pager Duty’s global privacy program, including planning and implementing self‑help resources, training, tools and systems.
• Support revenue objectives by collaborating with our Commercial Legal and Deal Desk teams to provide clear and concise counsel on privacy issues for customer deals, including DPAs and questionnaires.
• Support Pager Duty’s marketing initiatives by providing practical legal advice on a wide range of marketing and advertising legal issues, including privacy overlap.
• Learn and understand Pager Duty’s business and technical operations and develop solutions to legal issues that take the above into account.
• Collaborate across the company (including partnership with Product Counsel, Procurement Counsel, Security Managers, Engineers, Product Managers, and IT managers) to support a variety of privacy matters and initiatives; such as data mapping, privacy by design, impact assessments, vendor data protection, privacy notices and policies, subject access requests, and incident response.
• Maintain awareness of the privacy and marketing/advertising legal landscape as Pager Duty’s subject matter expert, collaborating with outside counsel as needed on complex, higher‑risk matters.
• Monitor and analyze emerging privacy, data protection, marketing, and advertising laws, regulations, enforcement activity, trends and industry best practices.
• Collaborate to develop Pager Duty’s public policy position in privacy, data protection, marketing and advertising.
• Advise on likely trends and best practices to prepare for the future.
• Support non‑privacy projects based on business priorities as a legal generalist, learning new areas of law as needed. Projects may include non‑privacy product counseling areas, dispute resolution, or IP matters.

• A law degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• Authorization to practice law in the state where you will be based, or eligibility to become authorized (e.g., eligible to register for an in‑house counsel status in a state that offers such status).
• 6+ years of applicable legal experience at a leading law firm, in‑house legal department, or governmental agency.
• 3+ years of hands‑on privacy experience.

• Deep experience in privacy, including experience in GDPR, CCPA, CIPA and, ideally, other privacy frameworks as well.
• Solid experience advising on marketing and advertising legal issues, including reviewing marketing claims, adtech implementation, marketing consents, and contest rules.
• Passionate about issues that lie at the intersection of law and technology, including understanding the technical details.
• Experience in litigation, M&A deals, regulatory inquiries, product counseling, or IP.
• Successful ability to investigate, analyze, and solve complex legal issues, and develop practical risk mitigation options.
• Demonstrated ability to…