Counsel

Lex Key Partners; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Full benefits

Job summary

Lex Key Partners is seeking a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer for its Silicon Valley office. This counseling-heavy role puts you close to product and business decisions as founders, GCs, and engineering leads navigate launches, fundraising, and deals.

You will guide clients through privacy regimes, advise on AI governance, negotiate SaaS and cloud terms, and lead privacy due diligence for financings and acquisitions. Hybrid schedule with strong compensation and full benefits.

Qualifications

• Substantial privacy, cybersecurity, or tech transactions experience (senior associate or counsel level).
• Strong command of California privacy law and the evolving AI regulatory landscape.
• Track record advising technology companies, ideally startups, SaaS, AI, or platform businesses.
• Excellent drafting, negotiating, and client-facing judgment.

Responsibilities

• Guiding tech clients through state, federal, and global privacy requirements.
• Advising on AI governance, models, and regulatory expectations.
• Negotiating data privacy and security terms in SaaS, cloud, licensing, and vendor deals.
• Running privacy and security due diligence on financings and acquisitions.
• Helping clients build privacy programs as they scale.
• Preparing clients for security incidents and regulator inquiries/ investigations.
• Drafting privacy policies, DPAs, consent flows, and internal governance documents.
• Working with corporate, transactional, and litigation teams on shared clients.

Skills

Privacy law

Cybersecurity

Tech transactions

Drafting & negotiation

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

CA Bar admission

Job description

UNIQUE COUNSEL LEVEL OPPORTUNITY with HIGHLY COMPETITIVE BAY AREA COMPENSATION and BENEFITS. Lex Key Partners is working with an Elite Global Law Firm to find a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer for its Silicon Valley office. The team is well regarded in the market and works with some of the most innovative names in tech, including early-stage startups, late-stage private companies, public tech companies, and the investors and buyers who back them.

This is a counseling-heavy role for a lawyer who likes being close to the product and the business. You’ll be the person founders, GCs, and engineering leads call when they’re launching something new, raising money, or getting ready for a deal.

What You’ll Work On

• Guiding tech clients through U.S. state, federal, and global privacy requirements
• Advising on AI: how clients build, train, and deploy models, and how to stay ahead of new rules
• Negotiating data privacy and security terms in SaaS, cloud, licensing, and vendor deals
• Running privacy and security due diligence on financings and acquisitions
• Helping companies build privacy programs as they scale
• Preparing clients for security incidents and guiding them through breaches and regulator inquiries
• Drafting privacy policies, DPAs, consent flows, and internal governance documents
• Working side by side with the firm’s corporate, transactional, and litigation teams on shared clients

What You Bring

• Substantial privacy, cybersecurity, or tech transactions experience (senior associate or counsel level)
• Strong command of California privacy law and the evolving AI regulatory landscape
• A track record advising technology companies, ideally startups, SaaS, AI, or platform businesses
• Excellent drafting, negotiating, and client-facing judgment

Nice to Have

• Product counseling experience
• Generative AI advisory work
• Incident response or regulatory investigation experience

Highly competitive Bay Area compensation and full benefits. Hybrid schedule with regular in-office time.

All inquiries are confidential.