Responsibilities
- Providing holistic in-house legal guidance to the Fundraising, Product, and Engineering teams, ensuring the Foundation can innovate while protecting the privacy of its global community.
- Navigating evolving regulations in marketing and AI, advising on the development of the Wikimedia technical platform, and helping build a global legal ecosystem where free knowledge can thrive.
- Analyzing current and forthcoming regulations related to marketing, customization, and other fundraising initiatives to support Advancement, Product and Technology teams on marketing and mobile app development.
- Collaborating with the Foundation's lawyers and public policy professionals to address the impact of Generative AI and create a global legal ecosystem in which free knowledge can thrive with minimal disintermediation.
- Identifying and executing opportunities to advance the Wikimedia mission within a complex, shifting technological and legal landscape.
- Supporting the Product and Engineering teams in developing a data governance model that allows for novel features while maintaining high privacy standards, for example in the space of reader engagement.
Requirements
- J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree preferably paired with significant U.S. legal experience.
- Experience with product, privacy, marketing and other internet law issues, advising a user-facing digital technology or internet company (e.g., as in-house counsel), preferably with global reach.
- 5-7 years experience with legal review of go-to-market, fundraising, technical products or online services.
- Significant experience working with engineering colleagues as a counselor and advisor to achieve organizational goals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full fluency in written and spoken English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with marketing, fundraising and campaign customization, and online communities.
- A degree or work experience in marketing, campaign management, computer science, engineering, or related experience, and have a good understanding of fundraising, marketing and software engineering processes and issues.
- Ability to speak other languages, experience living or working outside the United States, or past work on international legal issues.
