Privacy & Product Counsel

DBT Labs
US - Remote$172k – $208kPosted 27 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Us </strong></p> <p>dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases. </p> <p>As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including Astra Zenica, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture. </p> <p>We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:</p> <ul> <li>Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.
</li> <li>AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve.</li> <li>We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.</li> </ul> <p>dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our <a href="https://www.getdbt.com/about-us/values">values</a>.</p></div><p>We’re seeking a dynamic and strategic <strong>Privacy Product Counsel </strong>to join our growing legal team, reporting to the Associate General Counsel, Privacy Product. This is a unique and impactful role in a highly-successful company at the cutting edge of AI and data analytics. Your work will drive process improvements at thousands of client companies by enabling faster and more reliable decision-making through actionable and trustworthy data. A primary priority will be to advise internal teams across the company on a broad range of product, privacy, IP- and AI-related matters as you empower the business and advance compliance. </p> <p><em>dbt Labs is a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. This role is open to individuals based in the United States.</em></p> <p><strong>In this role, you can expect to:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Be a trusted advisor to product managers, engineering, product marketing managers, and security teams, ensure compliance, respond to incidents, and revise and update policies, processes, and documentation governing data and product releases. Embed ethical AI standards across AI-enabled features and safeguard data privacy.</li> <li>Contribute to overall company success, draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of privacy and technology contracts and other legal documents, including privacy policies and notices, DPAs, BAAs, Security Addenda, licensing agreements, reseller, strategic partnership agreements, and data-related vendor-side contracts. </li> <li>Support commercial legal staff with respect to licensing IP and AI, privacy obligations, international data transfers, regulatory compliance, subprocessor, consent and notice obligations and other liabilities. </li> <li>Collaborate with other internal cross functional stakeholders, including go-to-market, support, professional services, security, people business partners, finance, operations, accounting, data, and marketing to ensure our business goals and internal ethical standards are informed by regulations and laws governing consumer protection, cybersecurity, AI, privacy and data protection (including GDPR, HIPAA, FTC, CCPA, CAN-SPAM, DORA, the privacy principles, the EU AI Act, and the EU Data Act, etc). </li> <li>Track, analyze, and provide guidance on legal and regulatory changes and controls for the development of products and services. Spot and escalate privacy/AI compliance or governance gaps and recommend appropriate mitigation. </li> <li>Enable legal team alignment ... (truncated, view full listing at source)