Corporate Counsel, Privacy

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

We’re seeking Corporate Counsel, Privacy to join CLEAR’s Legal team. In this role, you’ll partner closely with our Security, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business Development teams to grow CLEAR’s privacy program and support continued development of our product across CLEAR’s business lines including aviation, entertainment, financial services and healthcare. You’ll provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that supports CLEAR’s mission of delivering frictionless and trusted experiences. This position reports to the VP, Product, Privacy & Commercial and offers a unique opportunity to make an impact in a fast-growing, innovative environment.

What you'll do:

Serve as a legal partner to CLEAR’s Product, Engineering, Marketing, Growth and business teams across our platform and services.

Build and evolve CLEAR’s privacy program, by developing and maintaining practical policies, processes, playbooks, governance, and escalation paths, and help leadership understand program priorities, risks, and progress.

Partner early with Product and Engineering on new products, features, and material changes. Lead or advise on privacy intake, privacy impact assessments, and higher-risk assessments; translate findings into concrete design requirements, owners, and launch conditions.

Help teams document data flows, purposes, legal bases, systems, recipients, vendors, jurisdictions, retention, and safeguards. Maintain fit-for-purpose processing records and inventories, and establish review practices that keep them current as products and operations change.

Provide clear legal guidance on U.S. state and federal privacy laws and relevant international requirements, including issues involving biometrics, health-related data, consent, identity, advertising and tracking technologies, automated or AI-enabled processing, and cross-border data transfers.

Collaborate cross-functionally to help drive CLEAR’s operational and strategic goals.

Partner with Security, Product and Engineering teams to support compliance with GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA and other global data protection laws.

Guide privacy notices, product disclosures, consent and preference experiences, and processes for access, correction, deletion, opt-outs, and other applicable rights. Work with operational teams to make these processes reliable and understandable.

Advise on privacy diligence, data protection terms, business associate agreements where applicable, partner roles, data sharing, vendor changes, and appropriate return or deletion of data at offboarding.

Track relevant legal developments, assess their impact on CLEAR’s products and practices, and coordinate implementation with stakeholders.

Support privacy-related complaints, inquiries, incidents, and regulatory responses in partnership with Security, and the relevant business teams.

Support legal analysis for global expansion.

Be a problem-solver who understands CLEAR’s business and delivers practical, actionable advice.

How you'll measure success:

Teams know when and how to engage Legal, and privacy review happens early enough to support product and operational decisions.

Leaders have a useful view of privacy risk, program maturity, open decisions, and remediation progress.

Product and business teams see Privacy as a trusted, pragmatic partner that helps them move forward responsibly.

You deliver timely and practical legal support that accelerates product launches and drives business growth.

You build strong partnerships across business units through proactive and solution-oriented counsel.

Scalable systems and processes that improve privacy posture and product development management are implemented.

What you're great at:

5+ years of relevant legal experience, including a combination of law firm and in-house experience at a technology company.

1+ year in an in-house product counsel role.

Strong experience in product counseling and privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, etc.

Strong business acumen and ability to balance risk with commercial objectives.

Excellent judgment, communication, and drafting skills.

Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Familiarity with privacy and data protection laws is a must; familiarity with identity technology issues is a plus.

Must be admitted to practice law and in good standing in at least one U.S. state.

Product-savvy legal partner. You’ve worked as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, and Security teams, and know how to translate legal requirements into actionable advice for technical teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs.

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $240,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.

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