# Director, Corporate Counsel - Privacy

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, DC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $240,000-$330,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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)

## Skills

### Required
- privacy and data protection laws and regulations
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CPRA
- HIPAA
- NIST
- ISO
- FedRAMP
- PCI-DSS
- SaaS products
- privacy by design
- data protection terms
- contractual obligations

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