Remote Director, Associate General Counsel

Summary

Join Sprout's Legal team as a Director, Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy to drive development and execution of legal strategies, manage complex privacy negotiations, and coordinate with the Security team. Collaborative in nature, we show up each day ready to support each other's growth and development—and have a lot of fun doing it.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate degree
• Member in good standing of the state in which you reside
• 8+ years of experience in privacy law (a mix of in-house and law firm experience preferred)
• 10+ years of legal experience
• In-house experience at a technology company preferred, particularly SaaS
• Extensive experience drafting and negotiating a variety of contracts, including data processing agreements
• Significant experience with global privacy laws, regulations, and industry guidelines, especially those relevant for social media, SaaS companies and emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI
• Significant experience advising product teams and working closely with cross-functional teams to build products with a privacy-forward design
• Experience working with technical and security teams

Responsibilities

• Drive development and execution of Sprout’s legal strategies to address new and evolving global privacy and regulatory requirements
• Independently run and manage complex privacy negotiations with enterprise customers and provide strategic advice to Sales and Legal leadership on key deals
• Drive and own company-wide and high-impact projects involving product and privacy analyses with cross-functional stakeholders across Sprout’s business, GRC, product and other departments
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Security team and serve as the Legal team expert on security incident response
• Develop and maintain resources and tools including playbooks, data maps, incident response policies, and trainings for Sprout
• Communicate complex legal concepts related to privacy and other areas of the law to the business in a clear, concise and effective manner allowing cross-functional collaboration on risk and related mitigation
• Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk
• Support Sprout’s privacy program including leading, monitoring, implementing and improving privacy compliance initiatives with minimal guidance

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Information Privacy Professional certification
• Ability to work through ambiguity and autonomously in an environment where priorities change constantly based on the needs of the business
• Ability to explain complex legal concepts to internal clients throughout the business, including members of the R&D team

Benefits

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting