Senior Privacy Counsel

Abnormal AI is an AI-native cybersecurity company. We use behavioral AI to stop the attacks that get past everything else, and our products depend on processing data responsibly, at scale, across a growing set of global jurisdictions. We are looking for a Senior Privacy Counsel to own significant portions of our global privacy program — the legal judgment, the day-to-day operational execution and oversight, and the AI-enabled tooling that ties the two together.

This is a senior privacy role, reporting to and operating under the direction of the AGC, PPIP. You will advise product and engineering on building privacy into an AI-native platform, support AI governance from the legal and privacy side, provide product-privacy legal counseling alongside the Director, Legal (Product), and partner with the Privacy Manager, who handles much of the operational execution, to run the day-to-day privacy program (DSARs, assessments, ROPA, notices, audits). You will help build and operate the AI automation, working with Legal Ops and other internal teams, that makes the program scale, and serve as a privacy voice with customers via commercial legal.

We want someone with the expertise, drive, and assertiveness to own initiatives and drive them to completion with limited oversight — as comfortable writing a lawful-basis analysis as they are shipping a workflow that automates it.

• Help build and scale the privacy function at a category-defining, AI-native cybersecurity company.

• Build, not just advise, with real license to design AI automation that changes how privacy work gets done.

• Work at the intersection of privacy, AI governance, product counseling, and security, on problems that are genuinely new.

• Competitive salary, benefits, and equity, and a clear path to grow the role toward greater program ownership as the program scales.

• Global privacy program execution. Support the design of, and drive implementation and continuous improvement of Abnormal's global privacy program, partnering with applicable stakeholders on strategy, policies, standards, and controls, across GDPR/UK GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, EU Data Act, US state privacy laws, and other applicable international frameworks. Advise and execute on the international data transfer strategy (SCCs, UK IDTA, EU–US Data Privacy Framework, transfer impact assessments) as data flows and product footprint expand across jurisdictions.

• AI governance execution. Drive the day-to-day execution of the AI governance program from the legal and privacy side, including EU AI Act classification and related obligations, seeing initiatives through to completion in partnership with R&D, Security, and AI governance stakeholders.

• Privacy by Design for AI products and product counseling. Partner with the Privacy Manager and R&D to embed privacy into the design of new AI-driven features, including model data governance, secondary data-use analysis, and the privacy implications of behavioral AI. Set privacy diligence standards for AI/LLM vendors and model providers. Partner with the Director Legal, Product to provide ongoing product and privacy legal counseling to R&D for product and feature development.

• Privacy operations. Partner with the Privacy Manager to help oversee the privacy operations program — DSARs and data-subject rights, Records of Processing Activities and data mapping, impact assessments (DPIA/PIA/TIA/LIA), retention, consent and cookie management, and audit support (SOC 2, ISO 27701/42001). Contribute to privacy governance forums, as appropriate.

• Build and operate AI automation. Use AI to make the privacy program scale. Design, deploy, and improve AI-enabled privacy workflows (e.g., DPIA triage and