Vonage is hiring a
Senior Legal Counsel Privacy

Summary

Join Vonage as a Privacy Manager to minimize privacy risks across our business by ensuring that the controls are implemented across our products, providing world-class strategic, operational, policy, and other privacy support; and identifying privacy-related strategic opportunities in support of our business objectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in privacy with in-house experience in a privacy department a plus
• Expert legal or regulatory skills in privacy and data protection in at least the UK and EU, and excellent understanding of global privacy landscape in technology and online businesses
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems in a complex technology and business environment by creating simple, repeatable, and actionable solutions and policy positions

Responsibilities

• Roll out of privacy programs and policies across Vonage and related enterprise entities
• Ongoing monitoring and reporting of effectiveness of privacy policies and controls
• Creating Vonage and related enterprise entities privacy requirements and supporting their implementation
• Building privacy into products and services through proactive privacy impact assessments of new products and services and corporate functions (e.g., Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance)
• Supporting commercial and CMT teams by providing privacy advice and negotiating relevant data protection agreements with resellers, suppliers, vendors, and customers
• Monitoring, communicating, and adjusting to developments in global privacy legal frameworks as well as in relevant industry best practices and standards
• Identifying strategic opportunities and communicating them to relevant business teams
• Promoting and maintaining privacy awareness across Vonage and delivering effective, role-based privacy training programs
• Managing consultants and outside counsel

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication, presentation, public speaking, and people skills
• Comfortable with ambiguity. Persistence to drive change over time
• Results-oriented, proactive, responsible, pragmatic, and ethical person with a passion for privacy and interest in technologies and their societal impact
• Experience with communication platforms as a service (CPaaS) and APIs a plus
• CIPP/E certified at a minimum, and other CIPP and privacy certifications a plus

Benefits

• Legal & General Pension
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Eligible for Free Eye Tests
• Shopping Discounts
• Optum Employee Assistance Programme
• Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
• Three Paid Volunteer Days a Year