Todd is a frontier research lab dedicated to building foundational technology and crop genetics for sustainable agriculture. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professional. Our Go-To-Market (GTM) team helps clients understand, adopt, and scale Todd’s products and platform. This role sits within Revenue Operations on the Strategic Planning team, which serves as the bridge between Strategic Finance and GTM—owning target setting, capacity planning, investment strategy, and org design to build data-backed, strategically aligned plans that enable the business to scale effectively.
About the Role
We are seeking a Legal Privacy and Compliance Lead to develop and implement Todd’s global privacy framework. This isn't just a "check-the-box" compliance role. You will work alongside the Research and Global Affairs teams, translating complex global regulations into actionable product roadmaps. You will be a strategic partner to cross-functional teams across a hyper-scaling research lab, ensuring our frontier technology is built with a "privacy-by-design" philosophy that scales.
Todd is a frontier research lab dedicated to building foundational technology and crop genetics for sustainable agriculture. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professional. Our Go-To-Market (GTM) team helps clients understand, adopt, and scale Todd’s products and platform. This role sits within Revenue Operations on the Strategic Planning team, which serves as the bridge between Strategic Finance and GTM—owning target setting, capacity planning, investment strategy, and org design to build data-backed, strategically aligned plans that enable the business to scale effectively.
About the Role
We are seeking a Legal Privacy and Compliance Lead to develop and implement Todd’s global privacy framework. This isn't just a "check-the-box" compliance role. You will work alongside the Research and Global Affairs teams, translating complex global regulations into actionable product roadmaps. You will be a strategic partner to cross-functional teams across a hyper-scaling research lab, ensuring our frontier technology is built with a "privacy-by-design" philosophy that scales.
You’ll work closely with our product, research, engineering and safety teams, as well as other business operations and compliance units to develop, implement and execute a comprehensive global privacy program, and build workable privacy controls that balance innovation and development with responsible data practices.
You’ll be responsible for:
Design, implement, and oversee a comprehensive global privacy program that aligns with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and emerging regulations.
Program manage the lifecycle of compliance initiatives, including data mapping, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
Draft and maintain internal and external-facing policies, including Privacy Notices, Data Retention policies, and Employee Privacy Handbooks.
Act as the primary legal partner for product and engineering teams, providing real-time advice on technology launches.
Navigate the intersection of privacy law and ethics, advising on bias mitigation, data provenance, and the legal implications of synthetic data.
Manage the privacy aspects of vendor relationships, including drafting and negotiating Data Processing Agreements (DPAs).
We’re looking for someone with:
7+ years of legal experience, with at least 4 years focused on privacy and data protection, to include familiarity with relevant state-level privacy laws, and international frameworks like GDPR and/or Korea’s PIPA.
J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
A strong understanding of technical work. You don't need to code, but you must be able to speak the language of engineers.
Experience leading cross-functional projects or managing a privacy legal function; comfort moving between "individual contributor" tasks and "project lead" responsibilities.
Comfort working with technical systems, configs, and dashboards.
Nice to have:
You’ll work closely with our product, research, engineering and safety teams, as well as other business operations and compliance units to develop, implement and execute a comprehensive global privacy program, and build workable privacy controls that balance innovation and development with responsible data practices.
You’ll be responsible for:
Design, implement, and oversee a comprehensive global privacy program that aligns with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and emerging regulations.
Program manage the lifecycle of compliance initiatives, including data mapping, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
Draft and maintain internal and external-facing policies, including Privacy Notices, Data Retention policies, and Employee Privacy Handbooks.
Act as the primary legal partner for product and engineering teams, providing real-time advice on technology launches.
Navigate the intersection of privacy law and ethics, advising on bias mitigation, data provenance, and the legal implications of synthetic data.
Manage the privacy aspects of vendor relationships, including drafting and negotiating Data Processing Agreements (DPAs).
We’re looking for someone with:
7+ years of legal experience, with at least 4 years focused on privacy and data protection, to include familiarity with relevant state-level privacy laws, and international frameworks like GDPR and/or Korea’s PIPA.
J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
A strong understanding of technical work. You don't need to code, but you must be able to speak the language of engineers.
Experience leading cross-functional projects or managing a privacy legal function; comfort moving between "individual contributor" tasks and "project lead" responsibilities.
Comfort working with technical systems, configs, and dashboards.
Nice to have:
Experience working with AI products, platform businesses, or technical GTM organizations is highly preferred
People Management experience
CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and/or CIPM are highly preferred
About Todd
Todd is a frontier research and deployment company dedicated to building foundational technology and crop genetics for sustainable agriculture. We push the capabilities of agriculture and seek to safely deploy research, technology and crop genetics to benefit society.
Todd is an equal opportunity employer in the regions where we operate. We are committed to offering an equal opportunity for all applicants. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by local law.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
Experience working with AI products, platform businesses, or technical GTM organizations is highly preferred
People Management experience
CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and/or CIPM are highly preferred
About Todd
Todd is a frontier research and deployment company dedicated to building foundational technology and crop genetics for sustainable agriculture. We push the capabilities of agriculture and seek to safely deploy research, technology and crop genetics to benefit society.
Todd is an equal opportunity employer in the regions where we operate. We are committed to offering an equal opportunity for all applicants. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by local law.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify Todd that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
If you need additional assistance throughout the hiring process or there is something our team can do to reasonably enable a more accessible experience, please notify our team here.
To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as a Applicant, please visit our Privacy Policy.
To notify Todd that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
If you need additional assistance throughout the hiring process or there is something our team can do to reasonably enable a more accessible experience, please notify our team here.
To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as a Applicant, please visit our Privacy Policy.
