Senior Privacy Counsel

The posting, as Abnormal Security wrote it

About the Role

Abnormal AI is an AI-native cybersecurity company. We use behavioral AI to stop the attacks that get past everything else, and our products depend on processing data responsibly, at scale, across a growing set of global jurisdictions. We are looking for a Senior Privacy Counsel to own significant portions of our global privacy program — the legal judgment, the day-to-day operational execution and oversight, and the AI-enabled tooling that ties the two together.

This is a senior privacy role, reporting to and operating under the direction of the AGC, PPIP. You will advise product and engineering on building privacy into an AI-native platform, support AI governance from the legal and privacy side, provide product-privacy legal counseling alongside the Director, Legal (Product), and partner with the Privacy Manager, who handles much of the operational execution, to run the day-to-day privacy program (DSARs, assessments, ROPA, notices, audits). You will help build and operate the AI automation, working with Legal Ops and other internal teams, that makes the program scale, and serve as a privacy voice with customers via commercial legal.

We want someone with the expertise, drive, and assertiveness to own initiatives and drive them to completion with limited oversight — as comfortable writing a lawful-basis analysis as they are shipping a workflow that automates it.

Why Join Us

• Help build and scale the privacy function at a category-defining, AI-native cybersecurity company.
• Build, not just advise, with real license to design AI automation that changes how privacy work gets done.
• Work at the intersection of privacy, AI governance, product counseling, and security, on problems that are genuinely new.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and equity, and a clear path to grow the role toward greater program ownership as the program scales.

What You Will Do

• Global privacy program execution . Support the design of, and drive implementation and continuous improvement of Abnormal's global privacy program, partnering with applicable stakeholders on strategy, policies, standards, and controls, across GDPR/UK GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, EU Data Act, US state privacy laws, and other applicable international frameworks. Advise and execute on the international data transfer strategy (SCCs, UK IDTA, EU–US Data Privacy Framework, transfer impact assessments) as data flows and product footprint expand across jurisdictions.
• AI governance execution. Drive the day-to-day execution of the AI governance program from the legal and privacy side, including EU AI Act classification and related obligations, seeing initiatives through to completion in partnership with R&D, Security, and AI governance stakeholders.
• Privacy by Design for AI products and product counseling. Partner with the Privacy Manager and R&D to embed privacy into the design of new AI-driven features, including model data governance, secondary data-use analysis, and the p

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• Experience supporting a DPO, including familiarity with independence and governance expectations.
• Familiarity with privacy and data protection regimes beyond the EU/US — e.g., LGPD (Brazil), PIPEDA (Canada), APPI (Japan).
• Experience supporting Works Councils and multi-jurisdiction employee/candidate privacy.
• Experience with privacy tooling and with AI/LLM-based workflow automation.
• Familiarity with security and privacy audit frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001).
• CIPM, CIPT, AIGP certifications

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Actual compensation will be determined based on several non-discriminatory factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Base salary range

$199,800 — $235,000 USD

A note on AI in our process

Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.

Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here . If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here .