[Hiring] Senior Legal Counsel @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

As the Senior Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for 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. In this role, you will navigate evolving regulations in marketing and AI, advise on the development of the Wikimedia technical platform, and help build a global legal ecosystem where free knowledge can thrive.

This role reports to the Associate General Counsel and will focus on Wikimedia’s current and future legal work as it relates to marketing and fundraising engagement, and disintermediation.

You are responsible for:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• A deep commitment to a free and open internet, open-source movement, and the Wikimedia mission.
• Comfortable working in a highly transparent, multicultural, and collaborative environment.
• A fast learner with the sound judgment needed to handle complex projects independently in a fast-paced setting.
• High personal integrity with a strong public service orientation.

Benefits

• Competitive and equitable salaries based on skills, experience, and location.
• Anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is $109,920 to $167,448.
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.
• Remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries.