Director, Corporate Counsel
Leads a global privacy legal team and provides strategic, practical guidance on data protection, commercial agreements, incidents, compliance frameworks, and technical controls for a cloud-based SaaS company. Requires 10+ years of legal experience, substantial privacy specialization, team leadership, a J.D., and active bar admission.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a global team of privacy legal professionals and serve as an escalation point for privacy and data protection expertise.
- Advise Security, Engineering, Product, executives, and other stakeholders on privacy and data protection laws and regulations, including GDPR and United States federal and state regulations.
- Negotiate privacy and data protection terms in Master Subscription Agreements, Data Processing Addendums, and customer and vendor transaction documents.
- Provide pragmatic legal guidance on privacy and data protection matters.
- Support investigations of potential privacy incidents, including regulatory responsibilities and contractual obligations.
- Develop and maintain privacy policies, procedures, standards, processes, runbooks, certifications, and guidance.
- Build relationships across the organization to provide strategic advice while supporting compliance.
- Maintain understanding of technical controls and assist with audit and monitoring frameworks.
- Review privacy-related marketing and external communications.
- Manage outside counsel relationships, including staffing, strategy, work product, activities, and budgets.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant in-house and/or law firm experience as a practicing attorney, including at least 5 years specializing in privacy and data protection.
- Experience at a SaaS technology company and familiarity with SaaS products.
- Experience supporting highly regulated customers, preferably in financial services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, drafting, and negotiation skills.
- Strong legal and business judgment, strategic thinking, relationship-building, organization, prioritization, and deadline management.
- Strong knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA, NIST, ISO, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS.
- Experience managing and overseeing privacy legal professionals, preferably at a global company.
- Strong academic background, J.D. from a highly regarded school, and active bar admission.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary in Ireland: €164.000—€225.000 EUR.
- Equity where applicable, bonus, healthcare coverage, financial benefits, paid time off, and parental leave.
Skills
GDPR, CCPA, Cpra, HIPAA, Nist, Iso, FedRAMP, Pci-Dss, SaaS, Privacy By Design, Data Processing Addendums, Technical Controls, Audit Frameworks, Contract Negotiation
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