# Executive Director, Legal, Compliance & Security, AGI

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Exton, PA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253000-$380000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking an Executive Director, Legal, Compliance & Security, AGI to lead all legal, compliance, and security functions across Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Synopsys.

The successful candidate will be a strategic, business-focused attorney and compliance leader with an active U.S. security clearance and deep expertise in government and commercial contracting for software, SaaS, and advanced technology solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading all legal, compliance, and security functions, ensuring aligned, enterprise-wide governance across contracting, national security, and business operations.

- Owning the full contract lifecycle management process, from intake to negotiation to post-award compliance, strengthening controls and improving contract operations.

- Structuring deals to preserve commercial terms and pricing while ensuring adherence to federal acquisition regulations (FAR/DFARS), flow-downs, agency supplements, and specialized software clauses.

- Providing strategic legal and compliance support during proposal and capture phases, including RFP/RFQ/BAA/OTA reviews, organizational conflict of interest (OCI) assessments, risk reviews and contract modifications.

- Designing and maintaining compliance frameworks that integrate export controls, cybersecurity mandates, data privacy obligations, records management, ethics, and reporting requirements.

- Overseeing National Industrial Security Program (NISP) compliance in close partnership with the Facility Security Officer (FSO) and Security Operations, ensuring full alignment to NISPOM, DoD, and customer-specific requirements.

- Leading incident response, internal investigations, and corrective action planning related to compliance, contractual, or security events.

- Providing executive leadership with clear reporting on legal risk, security posture, regulatory exposure, and compliance program health.

- Building, mentoring, and leading a high-performing team across legal, compliance and security functions.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active license in good standing with a U.S. State Bar.

- An active U.S. security clearance.

- Extensive experience with government and commercial contracting for software/SaaS, including FAR/DFARS, agency supplements, software and service-specific requirements.

- Demonstrated expertise in drafting, interpreting, and negotiating COTS/SaaS agreements, licenses, data rights, SLAs, and DPAs and complex technology agreements.

- Deep understanding of IP protection, export controls (ITAR/EAR), cybersecurity compliance frameworks, and data privacy laws.

- Proven ability to support capture/proposal processes (RFP/RFQ/BAA/OTA), conduct OCI assessments, manage risk reviews, and oversee contract modifications.

- Familiarity with GovCloud architectures, DoD IL environments, FedRAMP requirements, and Zero Trust patterns.

- Experience partnering with FSO/SecOps on classified programs and NISPOM security and FOCI mitigation compliance requirements.

- Experience with Proxy Board or higher FOCI mitigations.

- Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing legal, compliance and security teams.

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs.

## Skills

### Required
- Government and commercial contracting
- Federal acquisition regulations (FAR/DFARS)
- Cybersecurity compliance frameworks
- Data privacy laws
- IP protection
- Export controls (ITAR/EAR)
- National Industrial Security Program (NISP) compliance
- Contract lifecycle management

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