Product & Privacy Counsel

Parallel; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Daily lunch

Dinner at the office

Unlimited vacation

Caltrain pass reimbursement

Job summary

Parallel, a web infrastructure company, seeks a privacy lawyer to build and lead our data protection program across product lifecycles, DPAs, data mapping, and privacy-by-design.

You’ll partner with Product and Engineering, negotiate DPAs and data licensing deals, and ensure GDPR, CCPA, and evolving U.S. state privacy rules are met. Our team values practical, collaborative guidance and fast-moving execution.

Qualifications

• ~5+ years of privacy, data protection, or product counseling experience (in-house or at a top firm).
• J.D. and active U.S. bar membership (California preferred).
• Working knowledge of data pipelines, anonymization, and zero-retention architectures.
• Ability to negotiate DPAs and data licensing deals with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Own Parallel's privacy and data protection program, from policies and DPAs to data mapping and compliance across GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI and state privacy laws.
• Build templates, playbooks, and self-service tools that scale the function.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to provide pragmatic guidance across the product lifecycle.

Skills

Privacy law

Data protection

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

J.D. degree

Bar admission (CA preferred)

Job description

About us

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

Help shape the legal foundation of a fast-growing AI company. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering to provide pragmatic guidance across the product lifecycle—advising on data collection, retention, consent, and privacy-by-design. You'll own Parallel's privacy and data protection program, from policies and DPAs to data mapping and compliance across GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI and state privacy laws. Along the way, you'll build the templates, playbooks, and self-service tools that scale the function.

You You're a lawyer who enjoys building, not just reviewing. With ~5+ years of privacy, data protection, or product counseling experience (in-house or at a top firm), you have a J.D., active U.S. bar membership (California preferred), and working knowledge of the legal frameworks shaping AI products. You're technically fluent—comfortable with data pipelines, anonymization, and zero-retention architectures—and you can negotiate DPAs and data licensing deals with confidence. You bring sound judgment, curiosity about how AI products are built and sold, and a low-ego, collaborative style that helps teams move quickly without cutting corners.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

• Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.

• Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.

• Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.

• Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.

• Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary

• Generous equity

• Visa sponsorships

• 401K plans

• Daily lunch & office snacks

• Dinner at the office

• Unlimited vacation

• Caltrain pass reimbursement