Corporate Counsel, Data Privacy, AI, & Cyber Security

Summary

Join insightsoftware as a fully remote Corporate Counsel to provide strategic leadership in data governance, data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI. This role focuses on enterprise-wide data initiatives and risk mitigation. You will act as a subject matter expert, delivering efficient legal services and strategic counsel on significant projects. Success requires expertise in data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI, along with strong collaboration skills. The position demands a locally qualified attorney with significant post-qualification experience and familiarity with international regulations. This is a remote position.

Requirements

• Locally qualified attorney, with completed examinations
• Attorney admitted in the relevant jurisdiction
• Significant post-qualification legal experience gathered in house or in private practice, with a minimum of 3 years of legal experience
• Exceptional expertise and experience in data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) matters
• Demonstrated in-depth familiarity with international privacy, data protection and data management concepts, principles, operations, legislation and regulations, including those in Europe, U.S., and APAC
• 3+ years of experience in software or technology industries (strong preference for experience in start-ups/fast growth environments)
• Experience or familiarity with conducting privacy impact assessments on a range of operational projects, including emerging technologies
• Experience responding to access to information requests and experience investigating and responding to privacy incidents
• Experience negotiating Data Privacy Agreements (“DPAs”) and other privacy language in commercial contracts
• Industry recognized privacy certification, such as those from IAPP, like CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, AIGP, or similar certification
• Experience in an international environment
• Experience as an in-house lawyer within a corporate group
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize, and manage significant workload to meet deadlines in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and decision-making skills
• Fluency in English
• Familiarity with technology and information systems is desirable to appropriately assess privacy risks in response to implementation of new technologies, programs and processes

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and counsel on issues pertaining to artificial intelligence (“AI”), data privacy, and cyber security, ensuring adherence to global regulatory mandates
• Act as a subject matter expert on privacy laws affecting cloud technologies
• Support the development, review, and implementation of the privacy program including raising awareness, training, monitoring, and enforcement of such practice
• Manage, create, and refresh Company policies pertaining to AI, data privacy, and cybersecurity
• Ensure the Company remains current with key regulatory changes affecting the business by, for example, conducting legal research and providing updates on applicable laws and regulations
• Coordinate and formulate responses to internal and external inquiries, information access requests, audits, investigations, disputes, and complaints ( e.g ., administrative, litigation, regulatory), insofar as they relate to AI, data privacy, and cybersecurity ( e.g ., data breaches, incidents)
• Ensure the completion of Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments within the pre-defined framework
• Engage with internal stakeholders to implement best practices and governance models
• Support product development and the Company’s go-to-market strategy by integrating privacy-by-design principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in a leading private practice law firm ( e.g ., Magic Circle)
• Knowledge of information management or information security
• Foreign language fluency ( e.g., French, German)
• Prior commercial contracting experience

Benefits

Remote work