Associate Product, Privacy & Compliance Counsel
Marie Afshar is a Global Product Counsel, NYC Attorney, specializing in cutting-edge regulatory compliance for product, privacy, and AI within the tech sector.
Recognized as a 2025 Dialpad Award Winner for her top performance, Marie currently leads high-stakes legal initiatives at Dialpad, ensuring global market readiness across various verticals. Her expertise is focused on translating complex legal requirements into key business enablers, effectively mitigating multi-million dollar risk profiles while accelerating product innovation.
Key Expertise & Impact:
AI Compliance & Governance: Spearheaded EU AI Act compliance strategies for Agentic AI products, mapped technical model capabilities to evolving requirements, and authored Dialpad’s public-facing AI Principles. She advised AI engineering teams on permissible data usage, establishing clear frameworks for model training vs. service delivery, and co-authored academic papers on Large Language Models (LLMs) contributing to industry norms.
Global Privacy & Regulatory Leadership: Led the EU‑U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification and managed global product launches, ensuring adherence to GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI regulations. Oversaw the privacy aspects of SOC2, PCI compliance audits, and the AI Management Framework (AMF).
Previously, Marie served as Global Product Counsel at eBay, where she managed the complex regulatory landscapes for one of the world's largest marketplaces.
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Associate Product, Privacy & Compliance Counsel
