Senior Assistant General Counsel - Privacy, Data Innovation & Protection

Intuit, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 265,000 - 358,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. seeks a Senior Assistant General Counsel – Privacy, Data Innovation & Protection to lead as a senior attorney and people manager reporting to the Chief Privacy Officer.

You will guide legal strategy for data innovation, analytics, and privacy technologies, and manage a privacy team across product, engineering, and data science. The role requires deep privacy expertise, experience guiding large-scale data products, and engagement with regulators and industry bodies.

Qualifications

• Active bar admission and eligibility to practice law in the U.S. or California.

Responsibilities

• Lead privacy program and legal strategy across Data Innovation, First‑Party Data Analytics, and PETs.

Skills

Privacy law

Data protection

Adtech governance

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

Product security

Legal strategy

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

CS/Engineering background valued

Tools

Data processing agreements

Privacy by Design

Job description

Come join our amazing team of leaders, learners, and world‑class legal professionals accelerating Intuit’s mission of powering prosperity for consumers and small businesses all over the world. Our Privacy and Responsible Data Strategy, Innovation & Protection team works hand in hand with our business partners to develop cutting‑edge products that use technology to both add value to our customers and uphold Intuit’s Data Stewardship Principles.

We’re seeking aSenior Assistant General Counsel – Privacy, Data Innovation & Protection to serve as senior attorney‑leader and people manager within the Chief Privacy Officer’s organization. Reporting directly to the CPO, this lawyer will drive Intuit’s legal strategy and program leadership across three mission‑critical pillars: Data Innovation, First‑Party Data Analytics & Product Development, and Privacy‑Enhancing Technologies (PETs).

This role requires a strategic legal leader with expert subject‑matter depth in privacy and a pragmatic approach to operationalizing emerging legal and regulatory requirements. The Sr. AGC will provide legal counsel to product, engineering, marketing, and data science teams; own the legal framework for adtech governance, first‑party data strategy, data innovation, and privacy‑enhancing technologies; manage a team of privacy professionals; and represent Intuit externally before regulators, industry bodies, and data protection authorities.

The ideal candidate will be a practicing attorney with a technology background, expert fluency in data protection law as applied to product development, and a track record of enabling responsible data innovation at scale. The selected candidate will be seated within Intuit’s world‑class Law, Compliance and Policy Organization (LCPO).

Responsibilities

• Leading People – The successful candidate will possess a proven track record managing geographically dispersed teams and leading through change with confidence. You will operate effectively in a complex, global, and matrixed organization, building collaborative relationships and a sphere of influence across product, engineering, legal, and data science functions. You must command respect while demonstrating willingness to deliver advice in the best interest of the company and its customers.
• Business Mindset –The successful candidate will approach privacy as a business enabler and competitive differentiator. You have the focus, tenacity, and subject‑matter mastery to drive key strategies within large and complex organizations. You will establish direction, obtain commitment from the groups you advise, and influence beyond your immediate organization.
• Process Improvement - The successful candidate will assess current ways of working and, with their team, create self‑service, automated pathways that extend the teams’ reach. This can include the development of guardrails, playbooks, and AI models that allow both the business teams and your legal counterparts to know and understand where privacy and data guardrails are necessary and how to apply them.
• Strategic and Technical Acuity – The successful candidate will drive problem‑solving at both abstract strategic and granular technical levels. You will engage credibly with engineering teams on system architecture, evaluate PETs vendor claims, and assess the legal implications of data product design decisions. You will anticipate regulatory developments and enforcement trends, appreciating implications for the company’s legal posture and creating actionable program guidance ahead of compliance deadlines.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate and drive innovation across engineering, product, legal, and executive audiences.
• Proven ability to quickly gain trust, engage in constructive debate, and work directly with a broad group of senior leaders across business units, legal peers, and product leadership.
• Outstanding business acumen; balances legal principles, data, and judgment to hit the sweet‑spot of being strategic and hands‑on.
• Innovate for Impact – Energizes the organization to explore and implement creative legal and data governance frameworks that significantly improve business performance while upholding Intuit’s Data Stewardship Principles.
• Inspire for Action – Positively affects the behavior of others to achieve high performance and personal satisfaction through a shared sense of purpose, data stewardship values, and a spirit of collaboration.
• Highly motivated, energetic, and comfortable working closely with executive management.
• Thorough and able to handle a wide range of legal and program issues varying in complexity.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Active bar admission and eligibility to practice law in the jurisdiction where the role is located; eligible to obtain any multi‑jurisdictional license required to support in‑house practice in California or the applicable state.
• JD from an accredited law school; undergraduate or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative field is highly valued.
• 10+ years of experience practicing privacy and data protection law in‑house or at a top firm, with at least 5 years in a technology or FinTech company.
• Expert working knowledge of CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, GLBA, FTC Act Section 5, FCRA, and applicable state financial and biometric privacy laws; working knowledge of CIPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA, and emerging comprehensive state statutes.
• Substantive experience advising on adtech privacy law: consent management platforms, tracking technology compliance, identity resolution governance, data clean room legal frameworks, and digital advertising regulatory requirements (DMA, IAB TCF, GPC, ePrivacy).
• Proven ability to counsel engineering and product teams on Privacy by Design, data minimization, purpose limitation, and lawful basis for processing across the full product development lifecycle.
• Significant experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating data processing agreements, data clean room contracts, data sharing agreements, and commercial agreements with material privacy components.
• Working knowledge of at least two privacy‑enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning, synthetic data generation, homomorphic encryption, SMPC, or tokenization) sufficient to provide legal analysis on their regulatory treatment and contractual implications.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop legal and non‑legal privacy professionals; proven track record building team culture and developing talent in a matrixed, fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to engage in detailed analysis of data‑driven products and AI/ML systems to assess global privacy and regulatory risk, and to translate complex legal requirements into forward‑looking, actionable policies and frameworks.
• Commitment to diversity, self‑awareness, empathy, and intellectual curiosity; proven ability to mentor and develop talent and create an atmosphere of team trust and support.
• IAPP certification: CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, or AIGP strongly preferred.
• Experience in FinTech or financial services, and technical background (CS/engineering undergraduate or advanced degree) are strong differentiators.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Mountain View $271,500 - $367,500
New York $243,000- $328,500
San Diego, CA $264,500- $357,500