[Hiring] Legal Counsel @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a junior to mid-career attorney with interest and experience in matters relating to product and privacy counseling to join our in-house legal department as Legal Counsel, reporting to the Associate General Counsel.

You are responsible for:

• Advising product, engineering and design teams on legal issues related to feature development, launches, experiments and ongoing platform operations.
• Supporting legal review of new products, product changes, and technical initiatives around the Wikimedia projects.
• Supporting the draft, review and maintenance of user-facing terms, disclosures, policies, FAQs and internal guidance.
• Counseling on product, privacy, data use, consumer protection, intellectual property, accessibility, online safety and related product issues.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to identify legal risk early and develop practical, mission-aligned solutions.
• Monitoring and helping assess legal and regulatory developments that may affect Wikimedia’s projects globally.

Qualifications

• J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree, and admission to practice law in that jurisdiction.
• 2-5 years experience with legal review of technical products or online services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full fluency in written and spoken English.

Requirements

• Dedicated, hardworking, passionate, and able to complete projects independently.
• Ability to learn on the job, spot issues, think fast, and comfortably deal with complex and ambiguous issues with sound judgment.
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, multicultural, transparent environment.
• Ability to assess and manage complex risks, and triage issues appropriately.
• Mission-driven with a public service orientation and high personal integrity.
• An understanding of, and commitment to, a free and open internet, to the open source and free culture movements, and to Wikimedia’s mission.

Benefits

• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is $90,572 to $137,155.
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.
• We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants.
• The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.