Themba Nkosi

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Product Counsel at Meta · Privacy and data protection

Meta
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
8+ years experience
Strathmore University
English, Afrikaans, Arabic
Open to work
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Overview

I work on privacy and data protection at Meta in Cape Town. Built the privacy programme for launches in 6 countries. Negotiated 229 commercial agreements a year. Before that: Jumia and Interswitch. Most at home with privacy programs and GDPR.

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Skills
privacy programsdata protectionCCPAGDPRDPIAs
Open to workLooking for a role
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Senior Product Counsel roles in B2B SaaS - Cape Town or remote

Target roles
Senior Product Counsel
Level
Senior
Industries
B2B SaaS, Consumer apps
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in South Africa
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on GDPR with room to mentor.
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Contract-only roles

8 years in privacy and data protection. Strongest at GDPR and privacy programs. Open to the right conversation.

Cape Town, South Africa · remote OKccpadpiasgdpr
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Experience

  1. Product Counsel
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Meta · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new growth customers from 18 days to 4.
    • Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  2. Associate
    Dec 2021 - Sep 2025
    Jumia · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Negotiated 504 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 10 countries.
  3. Associate
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
    Interswitch · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Negotiated 387 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 12 countries.
  4. Associate
    Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
    FirstRand · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Secured 8 payments licences.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 21 countries.

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Education

  1. Strathmore University
    BCom, Economics
    2014 - 2018

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