FTC Privacy & Consumer Protection Regulatory Consultant (20-30hrs a week)

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FTC Privacy & Consumer Protection Regulatory Consultant  (20-30hrs)
Location: Remote
Salary: $140-150,000 per year

Must have the following:

• Direct, hands-on experience working for or directly with the Federal Trade Commission, with strong knowledge of FTC consumer protection and privacy matters.
• Experience supporting regulatory initiatives involving consumer-facing websites, digital products, online disclosures, privacy practices, and consumer protection requirements.
• Direct experience working with State Attorneys General across multiple U.S. jurisdictions.
• Strong understanding of federal and state privacy, consumer protection, advertising, and regulatory enforcement considerations affecting consumer-facing businesses.
• Ability to advise on how website functionality, disclosures, consent practices, data collection, marketing, and consumer communications may create regulatory risk.
• Experience interacting with regulators, responding to inquiries, supporting investigations, or advising organizations on regulatory readiness.
• Ability to translate FTC and State AG expectations into practical recommendations for legal, privacy, compliance, product, marketing, digital, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication, judgment, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Availability to work remotely approximately 20–30 hours per week in a contractor capacity.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior regulatory subject-matter expert.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior advisor on FTC, privacy, consumer protection, and State Attorney General matters affecting consumer-facing websites and digital initiatives.
• Review website experiences, digital programs, disclosures, privacy practices, consent flows, consumer communications, and related business processes through a regulatory lens.
• Advise legal, privacy, compliance, product, marketing, and digital teams on potential FTC and State AG concerns.
• Provide practical guidance on consumer protection and privacy risks associated with online data collection, use, sharing, disclosures, and customer interactions.
• Help stakeholders understand how the FTC and State AGs may evaluate consumer-facing practices and potential regulatory exposure.
• Support regulatory readiness, investigations, inquiries, enforcement matters, or remediation efforts as needed.
• Translate complex federal and state regulatory requirements into clear, actionable recommendations for business teams.
• Identify potential gaps in consumer-facing website practices, privacy processes, disclosures, policies, or controls.
• Partner cross-functionally with senior leadership and business teams to incorporate regulatory considerations into new and existing digital initiatives.
• Monitor relevant consumer protection and privacy developments that could affect the organization's website and digital operations.
• Provide approximately 20–30 hours of remote consulting support per week.

Requirements

Required:

• Direct FTC experience or substantial direct FTC-facing experience.
• Significant expertise in consumer protection and privacy.
• Experience advising on consumer-facing websites, digital products, or online consumer experiences.
• Direct experience working with State Attorneys General across multiple states.
• Strong understanding of regulatory investigations, enforcement, compliance, and risk.
• Experience advising business stakeholders on privacy and consumer protection implications of digital initiatives.
• Ability to assess regulatory risk involving disclosures, consumer communications, data practices, consent, marketing, and website functionality.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with legal, privacy, compliance, product, marketing, and technology stakeholders.
• Availability for a remote contractor engagement of approximately 20–30 hours per week.

Strongly Preferred:

• Current or former FTC professional with direct privacy or consumer protection experience.
• Recently separated FTC professional or someone otherwise available for part-time consulting work.
• Experience involving FTC investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory inquiries, or compliance matters.
• Experience working directly with multiple State AG offices on privacy, consumer protection, advertising, digital commerce, or enforcement matters.
• Experience advising consumer-facing companies on website privacy and regulatory compliance.
• Familiarity with evolving state privacy laws and multi-state regulatory environments.

Acceptable Trade-Off:

Ideal candidates will combine direct FTC experience, State AG experience, privacy expertise, and consumer-facing website experience. A strong alternative may be a former FTC professional with deep privacy and consumer protection expertise who has meaningful multi-state AG exposure, even if their website-specific experience is less extensive.

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