About Us:

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

About The Role:

As Investigations and Litigation Counsel, you will have the opportunity to help build the legal foundation for Notion’s approach to investigations, incident management, law enforcement and government engagement, and litigation. In this role, you will partner closely with internal stakeholders, such as our Security, Trust and Safety, and IT teams, to proactively build processes and prepare our teams to support high stakes situations.

What You'll Achieve:

Investigations.
- Provide legal counsel to build and support the company’s investigation processes and practices.
- Conduct legal-led investigations, such as investigations arising from law enforcement, regulatory or government inquiries.
- Support and advise cross-functional partners on other investigations, such as investigations into incidents, violations of user policies, product abuse, or illegal activities.
- During investigations, collaborate on investigation design, ensure thorough fact finding and data review, drive effective documentation, advise on legal risks, provide recommendations, guide information sharing, and support corrective or preventive actions.
Incident Management.
- Drive the legal team’s incident management process, and serve as an legal escalation point during incidents.
- Provide legal counsel to partner teams - such as Security, Trust and Safety, and IT - during incidents.
- Advise on user data disclosure and security issues, as well as litigation risks, information management, and protection of privilege.
- Tie together incident management and investigation processes to ensure appropriate recommendations and corrective or preventive actions are taken.
Law Enforcement and Government Engagement.
- Manage engagement with law enforcement and government authorities.
- Drive effective investigations with internal partners and manage responses to legal orders and inquiries.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and relevant laws, such as the Stored Communications Act and applicable U.S. and global data privacy laws, when responding to such requests.
- Advocate for the company through external engagements and documentation.
- Work with internal stakeholders - such as Security, Trust and Safety, and Engineering - to build efficient and repeatable processes to respond to regular law enforcement and government requests.
Litigation.
- Advise and provide training on information management, legal privilege, discovery practices, and data retention.
- Help build and maintain a global litigation function, and manage litigations, disputes, and pre-litigation matters.
- Assess the business and legal landscape to anticipate potential litigation and disputes and provide proactive advice to the business to mitigate legal risks.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

Admitted to the New York or California Bar and in good standing.
8+ years of combined experience practicing as an attorney within a law firm, software technology company, or the US government, with 2+ years in-house and/or US government experience.
Ability to advise and manage legal requests for user data, and advising on data protection, privacy, and the Stored Communications Act.
Ability to advise and support incident management and investigations.
Ability to guide best practices for litigation preparedness, including information management, documentation, privilege and discovery.
Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability provide practical guidance in ambiguous scenarios.
Resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to develop trusted relationships and work highly cross-functionally to build complex processes, respond to urgent matters, and take effective action.

Nice to Haves:

Prior legal experience in the federal or state government, such as an AUSA, DOJ attorney, FBI attorney.
Experience engaging directly with key government agencies, regulators, and law enforcement agencies.
Understanding of legal issues relating to user policy and legal violations in cloud-based platforms.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $255,000 - $300,000 per year.

#LI-Onsite

By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy .

Apply for this Job

* Required

First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

Phone *

Resume/CV *

Dropbox Google Drive

(File types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf)

Cover Letter

Dropbox Google Drive

(File types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf)

What are the pronouns that you would like our team to use when addressing you?

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day). Notion reserves the right to adjust these requirements, and wants to ensure that you understand that we prioritize your presence for the magic of in person collaboration. Notion will consider requests for accommodation to this policy, and, upon request, will work with employees to explore a reasonable accommodation for physical or mental disabilities or other reasons recognized by applicable law. Please confirm that you have read and understand Notion’s in office requirements and policy. *

Will you now or in the future require Notion to sponsor an immigration case in order to employ you? *

If you’ll require Notion to commence, i.e., “sponsor,” an immigration or work permit case in order to employ you, either now or at some point in the near future, then you should answer yes. An example of an immigration or work permit case that may require sponsorship now or in the future would be an H-1B or other employment-based work permit sponsorship.

LinkedIn Profile

How did you hear about this opportunity? (select all that apply)

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Notion’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Gender

Are you Hispanic/Latino?

Please identify your race

Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Veteran Status

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305

Page 1 of 1

OMB Control Number 1250-0005

Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
Blind or low vision
Cancer (past or present)
Cardiovascular or heart disease
Celiac disease
Cerebral palsy
Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
Diabetes
Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
Intellectual or developmental disability
Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
Short stature (dwarfism)
Traumatic brain injury

Disability Status

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

Enter the verification code sent to to confirm you are not a robot, then submit your application.

Security Code *

This application was flagged as potential bot traffic. To resubmit your application, turn off any VPNs, clear the browser's cache and cookies, or try another browser. If you still can't submit it, contact our support team through the help center.

Counsel - Investigations and Litigation