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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

Your Career

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic legal department and a growing Privacy team. The Palo Alto Networks Privacy team works with all departments across Palo Alto Networks to incorporate privacy and security in everything we do, by providing guidance, education, and tools, to facilitate adoption of our products and to make Palo Alto Networks a trusted brand for privacy and security.

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 role

The Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel–Privacy takes a collaborative approach to building 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 Chief Privacy Officer, you will 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 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 public affairs, 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.
• Support privacy compliance efforts across the company, and with external stakeholders as needed, providing guidance for privacy audits and facilitating 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 stakeholders across the company on matters regarding privacy and data protection
• Develop and deliver training and communications on privacy and security matters
• Manage outside counsel on privacy matters
• Handle special projects as requested

Qualifications

Your Experience