Latitude Legal is partnering with a well-established retail company to identify a seasoned privacy attorney with 7–10+ years of experience to join its Privacy Team. The ideal candidate will have practiced at a top-tier law firm or within a sophisticated in-house legal department, including at least four years focused specifically on privacy law. This role requires strong technical privacy expertise, sound business judgment, and a demonstrated ability to build trusted cross-functional partnerships while enabling innovation in a fast-moving enterprise environment.

This attorney will join a highly collaborative and well-established Privacy team that partners closely with business units to understand strategic objectives and deliver practical, solution-oriented privacy guidance. The Privacy Attorney will work alongside experienced privacy professionals to support major business initiatives, compliance efforts, privacy program development, and incident response matters across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide clear, pragmatic privacy advice to support business strategies and enterprise-wide initiatives
Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, including senior leaders inside and outside the Legal Department
Serve as a trusted advisor across the enterprise on privacy and data protection matters
Negotiate privacy and information security terms in technology, vendor, and service provider agreements
Support privacy impact assessments and project reviews to identify and mitigate legal and operational risks
Lead and manage cross-functional efforts to address privacy-related legal risks
Monitor and assess U.S. and Canadian legislative, regulatory, and enforcement developments
Demonstrate deep subject-matter expertise in privacy compliance and best practices
Thrive in an environment with evolving priorities, ambiguity, and innovation

Qualifications:

7–10+ years of legal experience, with at least 4 years concentrated in privacy law
Significant experience negotiating vendor and service provider agreements
Working knowledge of U.S. and Canadian privacy laws, including CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PIPEDA, CCPA, and behavioral advertising frameworks
IAPP certification (CIPP/US, CIPP/C, or similar) preferred
Strong analytical, communication, and executive-facing advisory skills
Ability to tailor complex advice clearly to varied audiences
Familiarity with emerging technology, e-commerce, marketing, targeted advertising, and data analytics preferred
Retail industry experience a plus
J.D. from an accredited US law school
Active Washington State bar license required

Position Details

Type of role: Engagement (Temp to Perm). Can be converted to permanent role for the right candidate based on performance and business needs.
Schedule: Full-Time
Location: Hybrid – must be able to work in the client’s Seattle office 3-4 days per week

Compensation:

Pay: The annualized pay for this position ranges from $225, 000 to $250,000+ when calculated on a full-time basis. Pay for contract engagements is based on multiple factors including but not limited to work experience, qualifications, credentials, location, market supply/demand, and the candidate’s preference (each candidate’s pay rate affects the client bill rate which can affect the candidate’s competitiveness for the position).

Benefits: In addition to pay, all Latitude Attorneys and other legal professionals working on contract engagements receive complimentary professional liability insurance coverage. All Latitude employees (including those on contract engagements) are also eligible for full benefits when working 20+ hours per week, including group medical, dental, and vision insurance, and complimentary group life, LTD and AD&D insurance. A qualified 401k plan is also available. Benefits-eligible Latitude Attorneys also receive a CLE and Professional Expense stipend.

Confidentiality

Latitude will not disclose your identity or propose you to prospective clients without your prior consent. Candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted. Only qualified applicants should apply.

About Latitude

Latitude is a full-service national legal services company that specializes in providing high-end, flexible contract engagements and permanent positions to outstanding attorneys, paralegals, compliance officers and legal operations professionals. We work closely with our candidates to understand their career goals and match them with the substantive engagements they want with our clients, who range from Fortune 500 corporations to small companies and Global 50 law firms to boutiques. With offices coast-to-coast, we employ legal professionals across the country. Latitude’s client service leaders and recruiters are all former practicing attorneys and understand the demands faced by those we serve.

Latitude Engagements

Great attorneys and other legal professionals who are seeking contract engagements or consulting roles choose to work with Latitude because of our competitive compensation and benefits, sophisticated and engaging work, a chance to work with great clients and peers, and a refreshing blend of freedom with self-designed boundaries. Our own experience as practicing attorneys and our client relationships enables us to effectively tailor our candidate proposals to the specific practice strengths and interpersonal attributes that matter most to our clients and to match our candidates with the opportunities that will be most fulfilling to them.

Latitude engaged professionals have the level of skill, experience, and judgment as would be expected of a permanent member of our client’s corporate legal department or law firm and the versatility to step into challenging environments and hit the ground running. If you have the right skills, personality and experience, Latitude helps you do what you are good at in a more rewarding way. Latitude engaged professionals serve on a full- or part-time engagement basis and work remotely or on-site at the client’s office.

While we are able to work only with a select few of the most outstanding candidates, our customized approach results in a high success rate for those candidates we recommend.

For more information about Latitude, please visit us at https://latitudelegal.com.

Latitude is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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