# Senior Privacy Counsel

**Company**: Intercom
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a dedicated Senior Privacy Counsel to lead the company on global legal matters involving privacy, data protection and cybersecurity. You will advise and partner with our engineering, product, security, sales, marketing, H.R. and other teams throughout the organization to manage legal risk and compliance with global privacy laws and regulations. Your responsibilities will include serving as a subject matter expert and resource on privacy, data protection and security with a multi-jurisdictional lens, working with teams across offices on various privacy, data protection and security compliance initiatives, and providing guidance and interpretation on legal requirements to the engineering and product teams with respect to existing and new product features and functionality for privacy-by-design initiatives.

You will also be responsible for providing guidance to the H.R. team on employee privacy and data protection concerns and processes, responding to customer and employee questions about their individual data rights and Intercom's processing activities, drafting data protection impact assessments, and keeping up to date on privacy and data protection law developments and providing analysis and guidance for implementation into business processes.

Additionally, you will counsel and advise commercial teams and business partners on data protection related provisions in contracts, partner with the Security team on company policies, risk assessments, projects and breach incidents, and support projects in other key compliance areas involving our Code of Conduct and other policies.

## Skills

### Required
- Foundational knowledge of key security programs such as SOC2, ISO and HIPAA
- CIPP/E or CIPP/US certification
- California state bar licensed attorney or ability to be registered as in-house counsel if licensed in another jurisdiction; or qualified in Ireland and/or the UK
- 10+ years relevant experience as an attorney or counsel with law firm and in-house legal departments, advising a multinational technology company on global data privacy regulation and laws
- Comfort in influencing and educating an organization on the importance of privacy and implementation of privacy initiatives, and capable of building relationships and gaining respect of senior leaders in the organization

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