Senior Counsel, Privacy & Product

About the role

OpenTable is seeking a business-oriented Senior Counsel to join the Legal team and serve as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, Security, and Marketing teams. This role involves providing strategic counsel on product development, privacy, data protection, and AI governance, while also acting as Deputy Privacy Officer to help operationalize the global privacy program. The ideal candidate will enjoy navigating emerging legal areas and developing practical solutions to enable responsible innovation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, Security, Commercial, Partnerships, and Marketing teams, providing end-to-end counseling on new products, features, data uses, integrations, consumer experiences, and other strategic initiatives.
• Serve as Deputy Privacy Officer for OpenTable, helping lead and operationalize OpenTable’s global privacy program and serving as a key liaison with BHI on privacy strategy, governance, regulatory developments, and group-wide privacy initiatives.
• Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements and embed privacy-by-design principles into OpenTable’s products and operations, including counseling on data collection, use, sharing, retention, consent, personalization, and consumer rights.
• Provide strategic legal guidance on the development, deployment, procurement, and use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, including generative AI and AI-powered product features, and help develop scalable AI governance frameworks as the regulatory landscape evolves.
• Provide strategic legal advice and guidance to Product teams regarding product development, launch, and sunsetting, with strong focus on legal risks related to data privacy, cybersecurity, data usage and ownership, consumer protection, and marketing.
• Partner closely with OpenTable’s Information Security team on cybersecurity and data security matters, including product and vendor security risk, security requirements, incident response, potential data breaches, regulatory obligations, and remediation.
• Identify and address emerging product, privacy, AI, security, consumer protection, and regulatory risks; draft and negotiate related agreements and terms; and develop scalable legal processes, policies, playbooks, and disclosures that enable the business to innovate responsibly.

Required skills

• Privacy law
• Data protection
• Product counseling
• GDPR
• Cybersecurity
• AI governance
• Consumer protection law

Nice to have

• Artificial intelligence
• Global organization experience

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience
• J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and active membership in a U.S. state bar
• Equivalent legal qualification and authorization to practice law in the United Kingdom

Certifications

• CIPP/US
• CIPP/E
• CIPM
• AIGP

Benefits

• 5 weeks paid vacation
• Private health & dental insurance
• Work from anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions
• Headspace subscription
• Paid parental leave
• Pension plan contributions
• Discounted gym membership
• Bike2Work
• Season ticket loan

About the Company

OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc., is an industry leader with over 25 years of experience helping restaurants thrive through world-class technology. The company empowers restaurants to focus on their team, guests, and bottom line while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant.