Market Access and Emerging Tech Governance Lead

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 impactful solutions for the business.

The Market Access & Emerging Tech Governance Lead will be a key legal partner to various cross-functional teams, including with teams that build our best-in-class cybersecurity products. Reporting to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, you will work on critical emerging regulatory landscapes with key stakeholders across the company. You are motivated by unique issues and enthusiastic about being the legal partner to our Engineering, Product Management, Information Security and Sales 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 partner with cross-functional teams to drive results-focused solutions, with the goal of enabling the business. You will have experience advising and actioning on data and AI/ML projects, and be engaged in keeping up-to-date with the evolving regulatory landscape related to data and cybersecurity.


Your Impact
 

• In collaboration with legal colleagues and product leaders, implement a scalable process for conducting AI/ML impact assessments and other security assessments on new products and enhancements to existing products

• Perform continuous development of whitepapers mapping between regulations and product capability, enabling compliance with customer preferences and regulatory obligations

• Partner with legal colleagues and product leaders to develop new and update existing Privacy Datasheets

• Partner with Information Security to advance our privacy by design program

• Work closely with the functional teams to understand their perspectives, processes, applications and technologies to ensure compliance with applicable data regulations and industry best practices while guiding and delivering solutions for the teams

• Develop and update playbooks to enable legal colleagues and product leaders

Handle special projects as requested

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of experience working on emerging technology issues either a SaaS  / cybersecurity company or at a law firm

• Experience in global data regulations (e.g., NIS2 Directive, EU AI Act, EU Data Act and other security and data protection frameworks)

• Engineering background a plus

• Law degree a plus

Experience reviewing products, features, and initiatives to provide sound risk-based advice in light of the evolving regulatory landscape

Additional Information

The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic legal department and a growing Product