Privacy Counsel

Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing grocery delivery and household goods, while offering flexible earnings opportunities to personal shoppers. The company is a Flex First team, allowing employees to choose where they work—from home, an office, or elsewhere—while staying connected through in-person events.

Instacart's global privacy program is scaling rapidly alongside its e-commerce, advertising, health, and AI-driven product lines. This role exists to embed privacy into how Instacart builds and operates, ensuring product, engineering, data science, advertising, health, and business development teams have clear, practical guidance. The role involves monitoring global privacy developments, reviewing new products for privacy compliance, establishing frameworks for advertising data use, assessing data sharing arrangements, and strengthening privacy program operations.

• J.D. from a top-tier law school; membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California required or ability to register as in-house counsel)
• 6+ years of experience focused on privacy and data protection, at a leading law firm, in-house, or both
• Deep working knowledge of CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, and the evolving landscape of U.S. state privacy and health data laws
• Experience advising on adtech, data sharing, and consumer data use in a retail, e-commerce, or platform environment
• Strong ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance for non-legal stakeholders

• Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development
• Experience in AdTech

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits. This role is remote and the base pay range depends on permanent work location. The role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. For US-based candidates, base pay ranges are listed by location.

Apply through the Instacart careers page for this role.