Director, Corporate Counsel - Privacy

Accelerate your career by joining Okta, the World’s Identity Provider, as a member of our Cybersecurity & Privacy Legal team.

As Director, Corporate Counsel – Privacy, you will lead a global privacy legal team, reporting to the Senior Director, Corporate Counsel, Cybersecurity & Privacy, and help grow and mature a scalable global privacy practice.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of talented, high-performing privacy legal professionals and serve as a point of escalation, providing privacy and data protection legal expertise to executives, cross-functional leaders, and other stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Provide advice and guidance to Okta Security, Engineering, Product, executives, and other stakeholders on compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations.
• Provide advice negotiating privacy and data protection terms associated with Master Subscription Agreements, Data Processing Addendums, and other documentation related to customer and vendor transactions.
• Provide day-to-day legal support on privacy and data protection-related questions and respond promptly and effectively with pragmatic, business-oriented guidance.
• Support the investigation of potential privacy incidents, including analyzing relevant regulatory responsibilities and contractual obligations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain privacy and data protection policies, procedures, standards, processes, runbooks, certifications, and guidance.
• Build critical relationships to effectively provide practical and strategic advice to assist the business in meeting its objectives, while ensuring privacy and data protection compliance.
• Maintain an understanding of technical controls and assist in the creation of audit and monitoring frameworks to support stable, controlled operations.
• Review privacy-related marketing and other external communications content for accuracy and completeness.
• Strategically manage outside counsel relationships, including staffing, strategy, work product, day-to-day activity, and budgets.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant in-house and/or law firm experience as a practicing attorney, including at least 5 years of experience specializing in privacy and data protection.
• Ability to translate complex privacy and data protection issues into clear and straightforward legal guidance.
• Familiarity and comfort with the culture of a fast-paced enterprise software company and knowledge of SaaS products.
• Experience working with highly-regulated customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, drafting, and negotiation skills.
• Sound and practical legal and business judgment, as well as the ability to think strategically and develop strong working relationships with key internal clients.
• Strong knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, HIPAA, NIST, ISO, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS.
• Proven track record managing and overseeing a team of privacy legal professionals.

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)