Deputy General Counsel, Global Chief Privacy Officer, Global Head of Innovation & Resilience

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

As Deputy General Counsel, Global Chief Privacy Officer, and Global Head of Innovation & Resilience, you will lead Innovation & Resilience, with a dual mandate. The Innovation side provides legal counsel on technology, regulatory, intellectual property, privacy, data, and artificial intelligence matters that support Sedgwick's product and technology growth. The Resilience side provides legal counsel on cyber, crisis, compliance, fraud, risk, and investigative matters that protect and strengthen the enterprise. You will also serve as Sedgwick's Global Chief Privacy Officer, with enterprise-wide accountability for the strategy, governance, and regulatory compliance of the global privacy program, in partnership with the Global Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer.

Innovation Legal Counseling

• Serve as lead legal counsel on technology, data, privacy, and artificial intelligence matters, including AI governance, model risk, and responsible AI deployment across the enterprise.
• Advise product and technology leaders on the legal and regulatory implications of new technology, data, and AI-enabled products and services.
• Oversee the company's intellectual property (IP) portfolio and strategy, including protection, licensing, and enforcement of patents, trademarks, and other IP assets.
• Monitor the evolving technology, privacy, and AI regulatory landscape and translate new legal requirements into practical guidance and business processes.
• Partner with business leaders to identify legal and structural opportunities to create value through responsible innovation.
• Partner with commercial lawyers and the business to accelerate commercial contracting processes and product development.

Resilience Legal Counseling

• Serve as lead legal counsel on cybersecurity, crisis management, compliance, fraud, and enterprise risk matters, including incident response and breach management.
• Partner with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance to build and strengthen the enterprise's cyber and operational resilience programs.
• Lead or support internal investigations related to fraud, security incidents, and other risk or crisis events.
• Advise executive leadership and the Board during crisis and incident response, coordinating legal strategy with business continuity, communications, and regulatory notification obligations.
• Anticipate legal and regulatory risk in emerging threat and risk areas and propose creative, business-minded solutions.

Additional Functions and Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Travel as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide support, guidance, leadership, and motivation to promote maximum performance.
• Administer company personnel policies in all areas and follow company staffing standards and training recommendations.
• Interview, hire, and establish colleague performance development plans; conduct colleague performance discussions.
• Build and lead a team of attorneys and specialists spanning innovation (technology, privacy, data, AI, and IP) and resilience (cyber, crisis, fraud, and investigative) legal counseling.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school required.
• Active license to practice law and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar required.
• Fifteen (15) or more years of progressively responsible legal experience, including significant experience in privacy, data, technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and regulatory matters, required.
• Demonstrated experience leading legal teams and advising senior executives within a complex, highly regulated and/or multinational organization required.
• Experience providing legal counsel on enterprise privacy programs, cybersecurity incident response, crisis management, and emerging technology matters preferred.
• Intellectual property experience is a plus.

Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Strong business acumen; translates legal and compliance risk into practical guidance.
• Deep knowledge of AI, data, and privacy law, including AI governance and digital ethics.
• Experience advising on cybersecurity, incident response, and crisis management.
• Familiarity with IP law a plus.
• Analytical and interpretive skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills.
• Proven management/leadership skills, including building and scaling teams.
• Effective across a highly matrixed, global organization.
• Experience with transformation and change management.

Work Environment

• When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.

Pay Transparency

• The range of starting pay for this role is $240,000 - $300,000.
• A comprehensive benefits package is offered, including medical, dental, vision, 401k and matching, PTO, disability and life insurance, employee assistance, flexible spending or health savings account, and other additional voluntary benefits.