Senior Privacy Counsel, Discord
$304-340k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$304-340k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- JD from an accredited law school
- Admission to the California Bar or eligible to register as in-house counsel with the California Bar
- 9+ years of experience in-house at a technology company, with additional experience at a well-respected law firm preferred
- Ability to internalize the business's priorities, understand complex infrastructure and technology, think creatively, exercise judgment, and translate legal requirements into actionable (and flexible) advice
- Demonstrated expertise with global privacy laws that impact consumers and technology companies, including the GDPR and state and federal privacy laws
- Experience and interest in advising on related issues that impact technology companies, including ad tech products, minor protection, and ML development
- Ability to lead, organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively
What the job involves
- Discord's Legal team is looking for a Senior Privacy Counsel to help deliver privacy to over 200 million monthly users who come to Discord to hang out with their friends
- This role will be our first dedicated Privacy lawyer, joining a team of product counsel and privacy program managers who sit at the intersection of legal compliance, product development, and user trust
- In this role, you will work closely with engineers, data governance, privacy compliance, and product counsel to scale privacy protections across our platform. This role will report to Discord’s Senior Director, Product Law
- Partner with engineering and compliance teams to build privacy-enhancing systems and infrastructure, on topics including vendor due diligence, third party privacy and security assessments, governance, risk and compliance, data use, and privacy and security incident response
- Provide pragmatic, actionable, and globally-oriented advice to minimize legal risks while advancing business goals and objectives
- Collaborate with stakeholders to help develop, improve, and enforce Discord’s data security policies, standards, and practices
- Help ensure Discord’s data processing globally complies with all applicable privacy laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and state and federal consumer protection and privacy laws
- Act as one of the company’s experts on issues related to privacy, ML development, and more
- Partner with colleagues in Legal on privacy issues that arise in the development of new products and technologies
- Lead internal projects, process development, and training to empower the business and your colleagues
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 200M active users in 19M communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and X, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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