Head of Legal

Our client, a high‑growth, consumer‑facing technology business is hiring a **Head of Legal** to build and lead its growth‑critical legal function. This is a hands‑on, operator role at the intersection of US privacy, consumer health data, product, marketing, and growth. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and the executive team to help the business scale quickly without being reckless. This is *not* a pure compliance role, corporate secretarial role, or litigation‑management seat. It’s for a senior lawyer who thrives in ambiguity, commercial decision‑making, and fast‑moving environments. What You’ll Own **Privacy, Health Data \& Data Governance** * Advise on US privacy, consumer and digital health data, and app/data governance * Partner with Product, Growth and Engineering on data flows, consent, tracking, retention and sharing * Support EU‑readiness and international expansion **Marketing, Claims \& Growth Legal** * Advise on advertising claims, disclosures, testimonials, endorsements, influencers and comparative marketing * Build pragmatic legal guardrails and pre‑approved playbooks to enable speed * Support FTC / NAD exposure management and substantiation standards **Product \& Consumer‑Risk Legal** * Advise on product features, UX flows, warnings, disclaimers and user communications * Help define safe boundaries between product functionality and regulated claims * Reduce product and consumer‑claim risk through proactive design **Disputes, Competitor \& Litigation Support** * Triage consumer claims, arbitrations, demand letters and threatened disputes * Manage outside counsel where appropriate * Handle competitor notices and selective offensive responses **Corporate, Financing \& Cross‑Border Support** * Support fundraising, diligence, intercompany and cross‑border matters * Partner with founders and Finance on growth and international structuring **Legal Operations** * Build templates, review rules, escalation paths and fallback positions * Make legal review faster, clearer and less founder‑dependent About You * 8–15\+ years’ legal experience, ideally with significant in‑house ownership * Deep experience in US privacy, consumer health data, digital products and B2C marketing * Comfortable with FTC‑style claims risk and fast‑moving launch environments * Experience supporting B2C or D2C businesses * Able to cover corporate and financing matters with support from external counsel * Commercial, pragmatic and comfortable being hands‑on * Startup or high‑growth mindset **Strong pluses** * Consumer health, digital health, medtech or wellness experience * Exposure to products combining app, device, data and D2C marketing * EU privacy or international expansion experience If you're a senior legal leader who wants to shape product, growth and risk at the core of a scaling business, we would love to hear from you.