VP Legal, Privacy & Data Strategy

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Who We Are

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The Legal Privacy & Data Strategy team at WBD is a global team of dedicated legal and privacy professionals who drive WBDs global privacy and data protection strategy. The team helps WBDs global workforce comply with privacy and data-related legal requirements provides complex solution-oriented analysis to meet business goals and builds trust by embedding privacy-by-design into products and initiatives while promoting transparency and control over data usage.

The Vice President Legal Privacy & Data Strategy will lead a talented team in Europe advise senior business executives and technology stakeholders and manage a range of issues involving employee talent and enterprise data operations. This candidate will work with issues of first impression and cutting-edge business models in entertainment news sports theme parks research and film television and games production.

Ideal candidates must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of global privacy laws expertise with technology including privacy-enhancing technologies and artificial technology and experience with large multi-national corporations based in the United States.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory Investigations Inquiries and Collaboration:

• Coordinate and manage response and interactions with governmental authorities works councils external DPOs consumer advocates and other relevant entities on potential privacy and data protection inquiries investigations complaints and actions.

• Collaborate with legal and business stakeholders to address rights requests and potential claims from international workforce talent and consumers.

• Oversee management of data privacy registrations and compliance documentation across multiple jurisdictions.

• Develop and maintain strategic and influential relationships with trade associations and where appropriate government officials to advocate for the companys interests in privacy and data protection policy regulations and standards including by providing meaningful modifications and feedback.

• Monitor developments and maintain internal documentation about global privacy laws requirements enforcement priorities and industry standards and practices.

Employee and Production/Talent Data Privacy Compliance:

• Provide clear practical solution-oriented and ethical legal advice on privacy and data issues and initiatives related to workforce/employees and talent for film television and games production.

• Collaborate closely with senior executives across the company including Legal People & Culture Risk Management Internal Audit Global Information & Content Security Technology and others to clearly communicate legal requirements and to align strategies and practices.

Enterprise Agreements and Initiatives; Security Incidents:

• Conduct due diligence and collaborate with corporate teams on transactions with respect to privacy data protection and data use including ownership transfer migration retention and processing.

• Draft and negotiate complex business and transactional agreement terms to comply with privacy and data protection laws and to maintain consistency in privacy and data strategy across the company (including for master services development enterprise technology/SAAS professional services ad tech post-production data sharing distribution and other agreements). Draft and maintain template language and strategic fallback positions.

• Work closely with Global Information & Content Security and other key stakeholders on alleged data incidents or breaches to analyze facts and legal requirements manage response and notifications provide mitigation recommendations review and track documentation and meaningfully participate in post-mortem and tabletop exercises.

• Develop and manage a vendor program to facilitate vetting auditing classification and proper configuration of vendor data transfer and use.

Data Governance:

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to design and establish efficient and legally compliant global data governance processes and documentation including system and data inventories data mapping and lineage records of processing activities (ROPAs) data use cases record and data retention.

• Oversee the design execution and organization of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and legitimate interest assessments (LIAs) responses to individual rights requests including data subject access requests (DSARs) updated privacy policies and notices guidance materials and awareness and training materials.

• Support ongoing monitoring auditing reporting and improvement of the privacy program.

Management:

• Manage an international team of privacy attorneys and professionals including remote workers and those based outside the UK.

• Develop efficient scalable strategies and processes to manage workloads.

• Mentor and cultivate team members to enhance legal organizational and leadership skills.

• Champion and implement strategies and goals established by global teams int the US and the overall Privacy & Information Security team as a member of the Leadership Team.

Your Experience

• Law degree LLM PgDL or equivalent and qualified to practice law in the UK or EU member state.

• Degrees and/or certificates in Information Technology Data Security and/or Privacy/Data Protection are desirable but not required.

• Extensive legal experiencein data privacy and data protection.

• Experience working with data protection regulators and authorities in Europe; including experience and skill in conducting and responding to privacy compliance inquiries investigations and complaints.

• Experience working with senior executives explaining complex legal concepts in easily understandable terms.

• Experience supervising other privacy professionals.

• Technology computer science engineering background and/or experience working closely with engineers and technology teams to define technical requirements or implement privacy program requirements is desirable.

• Entertainment industry experience a plus.

• A kind collaborative team-oriented approach.

• Deep understanding of international privacy and data protection laws regulations and best practices with a strong knowledge of employee privacy.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in building leading maintaining and documenting privacy programs including a proven track record of privacy and data governance policy process and training development implementation and management.

• Strong understanding of information systems and related security requirements and knowledge and interest in emerging technologies.

• Prior management experience with proven leadership skills and ability to supervise motivate and train others including those who are not direct reports.

• Ability to work unsupervised on most matters escalating high risks where appropriate.

• Strong legal judgment and excellent analytical skills ability to understand and solve complex legal issues ability to quickly and thoughtfully analyze issues of first impression with a practical and creative problem-solving approach.

• Capable of driving a team of stakeholders forward and keeping them on task moving projects forward and delivering high quality detail-oriented work.

• Ability to negotiate and draft complex commercial and transactional agreements preferably on data-driven deals.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (legal business and technical).

• Excellent analytical and strategic skills strong attention to detail.

• Ability to function well under pressure and to prioritize and reprioritize frequently.

• Ability to handle and organize multiple simultaneous projects stakeholders and employees.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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