Senior Privacy Counsel

Cupertino New York City Until 9/22/2026 8+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Do you love taking on big challenges without precedent? Do you possess a deep knowledge of the legal field and a passion for innovation? As a part of our Legal group, you’ll help uphold Apple’s high ethical and corporate standards, as well as defend our intellectual property, by providing legal support for all our products and businesses across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your deep legal expertise to rare and often unexplored aspects of the law. As Senior Privacy Counsel you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and experienced team on privacy issues impacting Apple’s business and products globally. You will work directly with business and engineering teams to design innovative privacy solutions for products as well as across the legal department on Apple activities and regulatory issues.

Description

You will be responsible for advising and providing support on privacy related aspects for Apple’s various products and services and work alongside legal, engineering and business teams. This role will be onreport through the Privacy Legal team that supports privacy product counseling for Apple’s services businesses. You will directly support Apple advertising and services marketing teams group and will work closely with our privacy policy colleagues in helping advise the business and engineering teams on cutting-edge privacy issues.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years professional legal experience advising on privacy laws
Knowledge of comprehensive privacy laws, and regulatory and other guidance and standards
Deep understanding of US state and federal sector-specific privacy laws
Excellent communication skills with the ability to advise and build relationships with senior leaders, teammates, and cross-functional colleagues
Able to clearly organize and inform through excellent written and verbal communications
Experience quickly issue-spotting, analyzing, and clearly communicating privacy advice on complex legal issues
Experience drafting and negotiating privacy related contracts
Strong analytics capability with attention to detail
JD or equivalent with 4-10 years experience in privacy and admission to at least one US state bar.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience providing strategic and practical advice to product, business, and engineering teams
Experience in the ad tech space
Experience advising on regulatory compliance and inquiries
Ability to lead, take action, and provide direction in the face of ambiguity
Ability to get results in diverse, fast paced environments

About this role

Summary

Advise on privacy laws, support legal compliance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Job title

Senior Privacy Counsel

Experience level

8+ years

Minimum experience

8+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Remote work allowed; candidate in US preferred.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

privacy lawscontract draftingcommunicationissue-spotting

Preferred skills

product adviceregulatory compliancead tech experienceleadership

Specializations

privacy
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

United States

Remote Country

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City

New York, NY, USA

On-site City

Washington, DC, USA

On-site City