Senior Privacy Counsel (Bangalore Work from office)

Key Responsibilities

As Privacy Advocate, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal research and guidance on initiatives impacting international privacy laws and related data protection and security matters. You will partner cross-functionally with our legal, product, engineering, and other teams to advise on privacy law matters and related data uses while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance.

• Excellent academic credentials minimum of 10 years legal experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house. Minimum 10 years of legal practice experience with a focus on data privacy, information security & cybersecurity in a technology-related company, law firm
• Identify business requirements resulting from new and evolving data privacy and AI laws and regulations, and provide guidance and thought leadership on relevant topics
• Drive an aligned approach for legal matters involving data protection, data privacy, and data licensing to support the Company’s most important business strategies, goals, and objectives
• In-depth experience working with data protection regulations (such as the GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or equivalent)
• Lead and mentor a team of privacy professionals, fostering a culture of privacy awareness and compliance
• Serve as the go-to subject matter expert on privacy laws, regulations, and best practices, ensuring the company remains compliant with all relevant standards
• Provide recommendation to legal team to develop, implement, and maintain privacy policies and procedures
• Advocate for user privacy within the company, ensuring that privacy considerations are integrated into all aspects of product development and business operations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to assess complex privacy issues and develop effective solutions
• Experienced in handling privacy inquiries, complaints and incidents
• Sound business judgment, and flexibility/adaptability to handle multiple wide-ranging matters, conflicting deadlines, and new areas of expertise as business needs change
• Demonstrated ability, in a positive, commercial and practical manner, to identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly and effectively

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Law or related fields
• Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity, strong ethical compass, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent legal research skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Certifications in Privacy such as CIPP from organizations like IAPP are a strong plus
• Experience advising on privacy and data security in commercial transactions a plus
• Experience driving, prioritizing, and effectively managing cross-functional initiatives, and an ability to both works independently and with multi-stakeholder teams

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹50,000.00 - ₹80,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• How many years of experience you have as a privacy counsel in corporate company ?

Work Location: In person