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Every enterprise deal Postman closes, every partner integration it launches, and every vendor it onboards more often than not involve privacy. As Privacy & Commercial Counsel, you will own the commercial privacy workstream that keeps these transactions moving: negotiating DPAs, responding to customer and partner privacy questionnaires, advising go-to-market teams on privacy-related deal issues, and translating regulatory requirements into contract language that counterparties can accept and Postman can operationalize.
Reporting to the Managing Counsel, Commercial, you will sit within the Commercial Legal team and serve as the primary point of contact for privacy questions that surface in the course of commercial transactions. You will work closely with the team under Managing Counsel, Compliance, including Sr. Privacy Counsel (who owns the privacy program), Sr Product Counsel, and AI & Security Counsel, particularly when updating templates and playbooks, escalating novel privacy issues, and translating the privacy dimensions of new products and services into commercial terms and customer-facing policies.
This role is heavily focused on privacy, with the opportunity to support commercial deal volume as capacity allows. In practice, we expect roughly 70-80% of your time on privacy-related work and 20-30% supporting the broader commercial deal pipeline. The right candidate will combine deep knowledge of global privacy frameworks with the speed, commercial instinct, and stakeholder management skills needed to operate in a high-growth enterprise SaaS environment.
Commercial Privacy
Templates, Playbooks, and Processes
Commercial Deal Support
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What Success Looks Like
You will have established yourself as the go-to legal resource for privacy questions in Postman's commercial transactions. Our GTM teams will come to you first when a deal has a privacy dimension, and they will trust that you move at their pace. You will have taken full ownership of the DPA negotiation workstream, privacy questionnaire process, and commercial privacy playbooks. Your counterparts on the Compliance team will view you as a reliable partner who keeps commercial privacy aligned with the broader privacy program.
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $190,000 to $230,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
