Data Privacy Lawyer for North America

Company Description

Publicis Re:Sources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communications group. Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Publicis Re:Sources has grown to 4,000+ people servicing a global network of prestigious advertising, public relations, media, healthcare and digital marketing agencies. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury and risk management to help Publicis Groupe agencies do what they do best: create and innovate for their clients.  In addition to providing essential, everyday services to the 86,000+ global Publicis Groupe employees, we build products and support capabilities that advances Publicis Groupe’s long-term growth strategy — taking even the smallest ideas into big concepts and beyond.

In addition to providing essential, everyday services to our agencies, Publicis Re:Sources develops and implements platforms, applications and tools to enhance productivity, encourage collaboration and enable professional and personal development. We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. With our support, Publicis Groupe agencies continue to create and deliver award-winning campaigns for their clients.

The company is a premier shared services company serving the financial, technological and administrative needs of U.S.-based business units of the world’s third largest Communications company.  With 2021 net revenues of over 10 billion Euros, the parent company specializes in Advertising, Digital, Media buying and consultancy.  The parent company is present in over 100+ countries on 5 continents, with 80,000 employees.

Job Description

Publicis is seeking a talented and flexible Data Privacy Counsel to assist our North American businesses. The role is broad and involves advising our business on the various privacy risks, obligations and other issues related to privacy. This is a full-time position  Ideally this team member would be located in Chicago and able to work from our office at 35 W Wacker once a week or as needed for group meetings.  We will consider remote workers located in the United States as well. You will be a member of our Global Data Privacy Office (GDPO) and report to Publicis Groupe´s North American Managing Counsel for Privacy.

Responsibilities

• Member of the Publicis Groupe global data privacy team supporting select Publicis North American business units, as assigned
• Support internal teams, providing them with appropriate advice and guidance, with the ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with diverse cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with internal business clients and our Global Security Office on responding to current/potential customer privacy/security assessment questionnaires.
• Coordinate with internal teams across Publicis Groupe on multi-agency initiatives.
• Provide support to members of the legal team on privacy matters and serve as subject matter expert on advertising technology, media, and advertising/marketing privacy issues for internal legal and business teams.
• Assist the legal team in drafting, reviewing and negotiating data privacy provisions in complex commercial contracts.
• Collaborate with our privacy operations team to adapt data governance materials such as inventory templates, vendor due diligence questionnaires, proprietary system questionnaires, and privacy impact assessment questionnaires.
• Inform privacy operations team on new legislation and regulations, and partner to develop privacy program requirements and tasks
• Draft and review consent forms, website privacy notices, cookies policy, and other privacy notices and disclosures.
• Maintain current knowledge of all relevant privacy legislation and regulations and distribute this knowledge across both the legal function and the wider business.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of evolving legislative, regulatory and industry proposals mainly for the advertising technology and marketing sector.
• Help develop data privacy training materials and conduct privacy trainings.
• Assist with privacy projects, such as policy and process development, in coordination with global GDPO members across Publicis Groupe.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate degree with an active law license to practice law in one or more states in the United States;
• Privacy certification (such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US from IAPP or similar) or willingness to obtain upon hire;
• 4+ years of legal experience, with a minimum 1+ years of relevant privacy experience;
• Marketing and advertising technology experience preferred, including legal support for ad serving, pr