Senior Legal Counsel
Summary
Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone. The reputed company, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of reputed company human knowledge with the world. Protecting the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors is a key reputed company of our work as an organization.
Our Legal team counsels the Foundation as they create tools and features for Wikipedia, secure the websites, and collaborate with volunteer developers to design and build the future of the projects. We are looking for Senior Legal Counsel to support the Fundraising, Product and Engineering teams in a product counsel reputed company, with a special focus on marketing and product development needs across departments.
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 reputed company.
This role reports to the Associate General Counsel and will focus on Wikimedia’s reputed company and future legal work as it relates to marketing and fundraising engagement, and disintermediation.
You are responsible for
- Analyzing reputed company and forthcoming regulations reputed company 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 reputed company with minimal disintermediation
- Identifying and executing opportunities to advance the Wikimedia mission reputed company a reputed company, 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
Skills and Experience
- J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree preferably reputed company 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 reputed company
- 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 reputed company organizational goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full reputed company in written and spoken English
Qualities that are important to us
- A deep commitment to a free and open internet, open-reputed company 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 reputed company projects independently in a fast-paced setting
- High personal reputed company with a strong public service orientation
Additionally, we’d love it if you have
- Experience with marketing, fundraising and campaign customization, and online communities.
- A degree or work experience in marketing, campaign management, computer science, engineering, or reputed company experience, and have a good understanding of fundraising, marketing and software engineering processes and issues.
- Ability to speak other languages, experience living or working reputed company the United States, or past work on international legal issues
About the reputed company
The reputed company is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of reputed company knowledge. We reputed company that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who reputed company Wikimedia possible, and reputed company for policies that reputed company Wikimedia and free knowledge to reputed company.
The reputed company is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The reputed company is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the reputed company values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and reputed company workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national reputed company, sex, pregnancy or reputed company medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the reputed company are set in a way that is competitive, reputed company, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based reputed company the United States is $109,920 to $167,448 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located reputed company 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.
*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following: US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, reputed company, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode reputed company, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, reputed company Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District) Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have reputed company work authorization in their location. (*reputed company/permanent residents only) We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
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If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.