Privacy Counsel, Epic Games
$144.6-225.7k
Salary dependent on location and applicable for CA, NY and WA-based candidates only
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Interactive entertainment company
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Interactive entertainment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$144.6-225.7k
Salary dependent on location and applicable for CA, NY and WA-based candidates only
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create fun games we want to play and building the art and tools we need to bring those games to life.
Role
Who you are
- Licensed in good standing to practice law
- 3+ years’ relevant experience (in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company preferred)
- Hands-on experience providing practical and actionable legal guidance regarding risks and obligations under global privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code of Conduct)
- Highly internally-motivated, with a strong capability to effectively drive and manage competing priorities as an individual contributor and/or as part of cross-functional initiatives
- Passionate, detail-oriented, and a critical-thinking mindset that enables you to thrive when faced with complex and novel legal issues requiring creative solutions
- Confidence in being a primary point of contact for a wide range of internal stakeholders on a variety of substantive data protection issues
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, sound judgment, and excellent multi-tasking and time management abilities
- A quick and flexible learner. You are intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, highly practical, comfortable with ambiguity, and truly motivated by dynamic change
- An ambitious mindset that enables you to successfully work independently with little guidance, but also collaboratively with a diverse array of stakeholders
- You are pragmatic and exercise sound judgment under ambiguous circumstances, but are also able to identify and escalate key issues when warranted
- Embody and demonstrate Epic’s principles: Do the Right Thing, Get Things Done, and Own the Outcome
What the job involves
- You’ll join our in-house Legal-Privacy team and provide world-class legal support to a dynamic, ambitious, and fast-paced video game and software development company
- Work independently in a creative and disruptive industry
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional stakeholders to help pragmatically navigate novel and complex privacy challenges in innovative ways
- Provide strategic advice to practically manage global privacy and security risks while supporting business needs and innovation
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to review new or changing features and uses of information to facilitate compliance with privacy laws and company policies
- Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and guidelines to communicate compliance requirements and best practices to internal and external stakeholders
- Draft a wide range of legal agreements relating to privacy and security
- Conduct privacy assessments and internal training exercises
- Manage and interact with external counsel, including as primary contact for multiple regional relationships and matters
- Monitor and proactively communicate relevant legislative developments to appropriate stakeholders
- Perform due diligence and support integration matters in connection with corporate transactions
- Evangelize a privacy-focused culture throughout the company
Our take
Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR and the Web. And its recent announcement - Unreal Engine 5.7 - is set to lay the technical foundations for countless future releases.
Epic Games' model focuses on two key areas: creating games and offering its game engine technology to other developers. Doing this means that Epic's brand stretches beyond their own direct creations. The company has been able to put its name to some of the most iconic games of the last 20 years. Its most recent success is undoubtedly the creation of Fortnite, which has gained hundreds of millions of users since its launch in 2017.
Long-established as one of the leaders in its field, these are undoubtedly exciting times for Epic Games. The release of next-generation consoles like the PS5 has enabled the company to push the limits of its software, meaning it'll lead the charge in the creation of next-gen games. 2024 also saw an unprecedented investment in Epic Games by Disney, amounting to $1.5B. This will enable Disney to promote iconic characters through the Fortnite game. With the number of people enjoying video games continuing to grow, there is no sign of Epic Games slowing down any time soon.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2024
$1.5bn
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$2bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $8.6bn
Company HQ
Cary, NC
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