CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

We’re seeking Corporate Counsel, Privacy to join CLEAR’s Legal team. In this role, you’ll partner closely with our Security, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business Development teams to grow CLEAR’s privacy program and support continued development of our product across CLEAR’s business lines including aviation, entertainment, financial services and healthcare. You’ll provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that supports CLEAR’s mission of delivering frictionless and trusted experiences. This position reports to the VP, Product, Privacy & Commercial and offers a unique opportunity to make an impact in a fast-growing, innovative environment.

What you'll do:

Serve as a legal partner to CLEAR’s Product, Engineering, Marketing, Growth and business teams across our platform and services.
Build and evolve CLEAR’s privacy program, by developing and maintaining practical policies, processes, playbooks, governance, and escalation paths, and help leadership understand program priorities, risks, and progress.
Partner early with Product and Engineering on new products, features, and material changes. Lead or advise on privacy intake, privacy impact assessments, and higher-risk assessments; translate findings into concrete design requirements, owners, and launch conditions.
Help teams document data flows, purposes, legal bases, systems, recipients, vendors, jurisdictions, retention, and safeguards. Maintain fit-for-purpose processing records and inventories, and establish review practices that keep them current as products and operations change.
Provide clear legal guidance on U.S. state and federal privacy laws and relevant international requirements, including issues involving biometrics, health-related data, consent, identity, advertising and tracking technologies, automated or AI-enabled processing, and cross-border data transfers.
Collaborate cross-functionally to help drive CLEAR’s operational and strategic goals.
Partner with Security, Product and Engineering teams to support compliance with GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA and other global data protection laws.
Guide privacy notices, product disclosures, consent and preference experiences, and processes for access, correction, deletion, opt-outs, and other applicable rights. Work with operational teams to make these processes reliable and understandable.
Advise on privacy diligence, data protection terms, business associate agreements where applicable, partner roles, data sharing, vendor changes, and appropriate return or deletion of data at offboarding.
Track relevant legal developments, assess their impact on CLEAR’s products and practices, and coordinate implementation with stakeholders.
Support privacy-related complaints, inquiries, incidents, and regulatory responses in partnership with Security, and the relevant business teams.
Support legal analysis for global expansion.
Be a problem-solver who understands CLEAR’s business and delivers practical, actionable advice.

How you'll measure success:

Teams know when and how to engage Legal, and privacy review happens early enough to support product and operational decisions.
Leaders have a useful view of privacy risk, program maturity, open decisions, and remediation progress.
Product and business teams see Privacy as a trusted, pragmatic partner that helps them move forward responsibly.
You deliver timely and practical legal support that accelerates product launches and drives business growth.
You build strong partnerships across business units through proactive and solution-oriented counsel.
Scalable systems and processes that improve privacy posture and product development management are implemented.