Senior Counsel, Privacy Counsel
Ancestry
About this role
A Senior Counsel, Privacy at Ancestry supports global privacy governance and operations, focusing on data protection terms, privacy frameworks, and compliance with evolving privacy laws. The role involves legal advising, contract negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure privacy requirements are embedded across the data lifecycle.
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About Ancestry
ancestry.comAncestry is a genealogy and family history platform that helps people discover, preserve, and share their family stories. It provides searchable access to billions of historical records (census, birth, marriage, immigration, military and more), tools to build interactive family trees, and automated hints that link records to your relatives. The company also offers consumer DNA testing (AncestryDNA) to estimate ethnicity and find genetic matches, plus collaboration, publishing, and mobile/web apps for research. Individuals and professional genealogists use Ancestry for its large global record collection, integrated DNA–records matching, and user-friendly research tools.
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About Ancestry
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$153k – $180k
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