Sr. Director, Assistant General Counsel- Privacy

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

We are seeking a talented, self-starter, and solution-focused team player who enjoys working collaboratively as well as driving projects independently. You are focused on delivering compliant and impactful solutions for the business.

The Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel–Privacy takes a collaborative approach to building cross-functional privacy and security frameworks. You will be a key legal partner to the cross-functional teams, including with teams that build our best-in-class cybersecurity products. 

Reporting to the VP & Deputy General Counsel, you will manage a world-class team of privacy attorneys.  You’ll work on critical privacy, security, and AIML initiatives with key stakeholders across the company. You are motivated by unique issues and enthusiastic about being the legal partner to our Information Security, IT, HR, Products and Data teams. You are experienced in translating complex legal issues into efficient and practical solutions for the company.

You have a “can do” attitude and will manage the Privacy team in order to drive results-focused solutions, with the goal of mitigating legal risks. You will have significant experience advising and actioning on security, privacy, and AI/ML projects, and be engaged in keeping up-to-date with the evolving landscape related to data, privacy and cybersecurity.

Your Impact

• In collaboration with legal colleagues and product leaders, conduct AIML and data impact assessments and other security assessments on new products and enhancements to existing products
• Work closely with the functional teams to understand their perspectives, processes, applications, projects and technologies to ensure compliance with applicable privacy and data security laws, regulations, and industry best practices while guiding and delivering solutions for the teams
• Work with commercial attorneys at global level to facilitate negotiation of privacy and security requirements with customers, partners, and suppliers
• Work on privacy and security related projects that improves efficiency and mitigates risks
• Support all members of the legal team, including Government Affairs and Public Policy, in proactively addressing privacy and related security requirements as they impact or apply to their areas of responsibility
• Support privacy compliance efforts across the company, and with external stakeholders as needed, address privacy audits and facilitate development and implementation of tools, policies, procedures, etc.
• Partner with the Information Security and Information Technology teams to implement best practices for management and protection of confidential and personal information and to develop appropriate policies and standards
• Support the product teams in applying privacy by design and in developing and launching privacy collateral for customers and partners
• Provide legal advice and direction to all stakeholde