Director, Senior Privacy Counsel

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic legal department and a team of talented Privacy professionals. 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 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 Director, Senior Privacy Counsel 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. 

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 Infosec, 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 execute on results-focused solutions  with the goal of mitigating legal risks.  You will have substantial experience advising and actioning on security, privacy, and AIML projects and be engaged in keeping up-to-date with the evolving landscape related to data, privacy and cybersecurity.  You are enthusiastic about rolling up your sleeves in taking on a variety of projects and delivering impactful results. 

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• 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 legal colleagues at global level to facilitate implementation of privacy and security tools and processes
• In collaboration with legal colleagues and functional leaders, conduct privacy and data impact assessments and other security assessments
• Support all members of the legal team 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
• Provide legal advice and direction to all stakeholders across the company on matters regarding privacy and data protection, including supporting commercial counsels on privacy negotiations
• 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

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