Director, Legal

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186k - $302k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Arctic Wolf

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

The cybersecurity industry has an effectiveness problem. Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge, and yet despite this constant innovation we continue to see high profile breaches in the headlines. All organizations know they need better security, but the dizzying array of options leave resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed. At Arctic Wolf, our mission is to End Cyber Risk through effective security operations. To achieve this, we believe that organizations must do three key things:

📋 Description

• Own day-to-day operation of the global privacy program • Monitor new laws and regulatory guidance to maintain compliance ahead of effective dates • Draft, maintain, and improve privacy policies, notices, standards, records of processing, data maps, retention schedules, and internal guidance • Conduct and document data protection impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, and privacy reviews • Partner with product counsel, Product, and Engineering to embed privacy by design into product development • Advise on data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, access, sharing, retention, technical specifications, and data flows • Serve as a primary privacy contact for security and privacy incidents • Assess notification obligations and manage regulator and customer inquiries with Security Operations and outside counsel • Escalate and advise on privacy terms in customer, partner, reseller, and vendor agreements • Maintain data processing agreements, subprocessor disclosures, standard contractual clauses, and business associate agreements • Handle data subject requests, privacy escalations, and customer and prospect privacy diligence • Build playbooks, templates, and training for internal teams • Manage outside counsel and privacy tooling vendors, including scope, budget, and quality of work product • Report to the VP of Commercial & Privacy

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school • Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar • Seven or more years of relevant legal experience, including substantial privacy and data protection work and meaningful in-house experience at a technology company • Deep working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, other major global privacy frameworks, and the emerging AI regulatory landscape • Demonstrated experience operating a privacy program, including assessments, records of processing, data subject requests, vendor review, and advising Product and Engineering on privacy by design and technical data flows • Experience supporting privacy and security incident response, including breach analysis and regulator inquiries • Strong drafting and negotiation skills covering data processing agreements, standard contractual clauses, and privacy and security terms in commercial contracts • Excellent business judgment and a risk-based, solutions-oriented approach, with a demonstrated AI-first mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and a strong sense of ownership in a fast-moving environment • Experience at a cybersecurity, security software, or managed security provider, including security telemetry, log data, threat intelligence data flows, and channel/MSP data-sharing arrangements • Background checks are required for this position • Offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations • IAPP certification such as CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or CIPT is strongly preferred • Experience with public sector customer privacy requirements across state, local, and education markets in the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity for all employees • Flexible time off and paid volunteer days • RRSP and 401k match • Training and career development programs • Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services • Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services • Fertility support and paid parental leave • Variable incentive compensation • New hire equity grants