Counsel

About Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. is a technology company that believes the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

The Legal Team at Snap

The Legal Team is Snap’s dedicated in-house law firm, thought partner, and all-around advisor. This team helps Snap do the right thing the right way, make better decisions, understand and manage risks, and creatively navigate challenges. We partner with Snap team members on a wide array of matters, including privacy, product, law enforcement, IP, commercial transactions, corporate governance, employment, acquisitions, litigation, policy, and social impact. We value diversity and know it powers us as we build an innovative and inclusive culture centered on Snap’s values of Kind, Smart, and Creative.

About the Safety & Law Enforcement Legal Team

We’re looking for a Counsel to join the Safety & Law Enforcement Legal team! This team provides critical support to Snap’s Trust & Safety (T&S), Law Enforcement Operations (LEO), Product, Spam & Abuse (S&A), Engineering, Communications, and Policy teams. Responsibilities include investigation and enforcement of Community Guidelines and Terms of Service violations, compliance with content moderation and reporting obligations, regulatory engagement, response to law enforcement requests, and cross-functional platform-safety initiatives.

The team:

• Supports Snap’s T&S and S&A teams in connection with the detection, investigation, and enforcement of Community Guidelines and Terms of Service violations.
• Partners across our Legal, Policy, Product, and Safety Operations teams to support regulatory compliance, inquiries, and engagement, and influence Snapchat product safety.
• Collaborates with our Privacy Legal, Product Legal, Policy, Engineering, Communications, and other internal partner teams to provide guidance and develop policies and tools that enable Snap to meet increasingly sophisticated and ever-shifting regulatory and legislative requirements, as well as contribute to a range of cross-functional safety initiatives and prepare external messaging.
• Works with Snap’s LEO team to help ensure Snap meets its obligations to produce user data to governments while adhering to relevant laws and protecting user privacy.

What You'll Do as Counsel

• Work closely with the Communications team to formalize and manage a process for developing and regularly updating a library of external messaging points, as well as resources for various teams on key points relating to platform safety.
• Collaborate with the Product, Operations, S&A, and Policy teams on detecting and mitigating risks related to child safety, as well as testing and refining product and operational defenses.
• Advise the T&S, Product, S&A, and Engineering teams on compliance with obligations under platform safety, transparency reporting, and content regulations (e.g., EU Digital Services Act, UK Online Safety Act, US state and federal laws), required reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the enforcement of Snap’s Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.
• Partner with the Policy team on legislative proposals and developments impacting user safety and outreach to government authorities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the company on safety- and compliance-related tooling and developments in safety laws, and to support litigation defense.
• Collaborate with the T&S team on investigations of Community Guidelines violations and advise regarding potential referrals to law enforcement.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• A phenomenal teammate with demonstrated ability to work closely with others in a manner consistent with Snap’s values.
• Self-starter who is eager to learn and extremely detail-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, think creatively, and accommodate tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to project manage key initiatives, working closely with multiple stakeholders to drive projects to successful completion.
• Excellent legal and business judgment, as well as outstanding writing, strategic-thinking, and analytical skills.
• Comfort with operating in a fast-paced environment and working on ground-breaking legal and policy matters in an ever-changing legal, policy, and factual landscape.

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited university.
• Active membership in at least one state bar.
• 6+ years of proven experience advising clients, conducting legal research, and analyzing complex statutory requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a criminal prosecutor, or in-house or at a law firm advising technology companies on trust and safety, product safety, and related matters.
• Experience conducting criminal investigations into child sexual exploitation and investigating Terms of Service/Community Guidelines violations.
• Experience drafting or advising on public communications and responses to press inquiries.
• Professional experience with digital platform, safety, and content regulations (such as NCMEC reporting requirements, the E.U. Digital Services Act, and the UK Online Safety Act).
• Experience with data protection and privacy laws is a plus.

Default Together Policy at Snap

At Snap Inc., we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

Our Benefits

Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC): The base salary range for this position is $209,000-$313,000 annually.

Zone B: The base salary range for this position is $199,000-$297,000 annually.

Zone C: The base salary range for this position is $178,000-$266,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

Key skills/competency

• Trust & Safety
• Regulatory Compliance
• Content Moderation
• Child Safety
• Law Enforcement Operations
• Data Protection & Privacy
• EU Digital Services Act
• UK Online Safety Act
• Legal Research
• Cross-functional Collaboration