VP, Legal; Product, Privacy & Platform

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance.

Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

Our Global Legal team is a collaborative, solutions driven group supporting innovative work across multiple jurisdictions, including marketplaces, eCommerce, and AdTech. We anticipate risk, enable growth, and position the business for long term success. We are seeking an experienced, business-minded player coach to lead our Product, Privacy & Platform legal function, reporting to the Chief Legal Officer. You will manage a small team of attorneys and legal professionals while scaling impact through strong processes and operational discipline.

This global role is the senior legal partner to Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Info Sec, advising on product and privacy strategy, platform evolution, and international expansion. You will establish the global legal risk framework for product and privacy development and marketplace operations, partnering with executive and senior leadership to define risk thresholds that enable smart, responsible growth. You will serve as a trusted decision maker on complex launches and escalations, focused on solving hard problems in ways that unlock innovation while protecting the platform and community.

This role is critical during a period of accelerated product innovation, AI adoption, and platform expansion. You will help the company move faster with confidence by embedding legal early in development, modernizing review processes, and enabling responsible experimentation at scale.

We are looking for a leader who leans in, works through complexity, and is energized by finding creative, practical solutions that both manage risk and advance business goals. This role is not about saying no. It is about helping the company move forward with clarity and conviction while elevating and empowering the talented subject matter experts across the team.

If you are motivated by building, problem solving, and helping a global marketplace grow responsibly at scale, we would love to meet you.

• Serve as the product and privacy legal front door, partnering from PRD through launch to identify risk early and develop practical, creative solutions that enable product velocity while protecting the platform and community.
• Lead legal strategy for global platform, intermediary liability, online safety, consumer protection, and competition regimes, translating evolving regulation into clear, business enabling guidance for product and operational teams, and oversee preparedness and response for any inquiries or investigations by relevant U.S. and international authorities.
• Set strategy and provide executive oversight for the global privacy program, including DPIAs, DSARs, data transfers, consent frameworks, vendor governance, and regulatory engagement, empowering subject matter experts to operate and scale best in class processes while embedding privacy by design across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Security.
• Provide executive oversight of the global data incident governance framework, directing legal response to significant security events, advising executive leadership and the Board as appropriate, overseeing regulatory engagement, and institutionalizing preparedness through playbooks, training, and cross functional tabletop exercises.
• Lead legal oversight of AI and data governance in a way that supports responsible innovation, translating emerging global AI regulation into practical, product facing guidance. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape responsible AI features from conception through launch,…