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About the role

  • Senior Privacy Counsel leading cybersecurity incident response and emerging privacy-law compliance. Advising Match Group’s dating-product, security, engineering, and product teams globally.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as lead counsel for global cybersecurity matters as a core member of Match Group's incident response team
  • Advise on breach assessment, regulatory notification obligations, and legal strategy across jurisdictions
  • Monitor, interpret, and operationalize emerging privacy, cyber, and data laws around the world
  • Conduct horizon scanning and gap analysis
  • Translate new obligations into actionable compliance programs, including for AI, biometrics, and breach notification
  • Partner with the Security team on vendor risk assessments, audits, and compliance frameworks
  • Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design for new features and data flows
  • Develop and maintain internal legal guidance, policies, and playbooks
  • Support global privacy-program audits, assessments, and cross-functional governance initiatives
  • Work collaboratively and independently with the global Privacy Team

Requirements

  • Qualified lawyer with a law degree and bar admission in BC
  • 5+ years of legal experience, with meaningful focus on privacy, cybersecurity, AI and/or technology law
  • Hands-on experience advising on cybersecurity incident response, including regulatory notification obligations across multiple jurisdictions
  • Working knowledge of the GDPR, PIPEDA, US state privacy and cybersecurity laws
  • Willingness to acquire knowledge of laws further afield
  • Understanding of digital products, including data flows, APIs, SDKs, and AI/ML
  • Ability to engage credibly with technical and product teams
  • Effective legal communicator able to advise senior leadership and translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance
  • Ability to thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and manage multiple high-priority matters simultaneously
  • Self-starter who takes initiative and exercises sound independent legal judgment
  • IAPP certifications
  • Comfortable applying AI tools in own work
  • Commitment to continuous learning

Benefits

  • Generous vacation, flex days, professional development days
  • RRSP matching
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Professional development budget
  • Unlimited access to Udemy from day one
  • Match Group mentorship program
  • Parental leave top up
  • Fertility preservation benefits
  • Extended health & dental benefits from day one
  • Corporate ClassPass membership
  • Other wellness benefits
  • Reasonable accommodation during the hiring process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$175,000 - CA$200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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