Sr Corporate Counsel - Privacy (FTC)

Position Overview:

The Contract Senior Corporate Attorney Privacy partners with the Director Privacy to oversee Entrusts global privacy program. The Senior Corporate Attorney must be organized efficient and flexible; work well under pressure; understand highly technical products and services; develop strong cross-functional partnerships; and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

The following represent the key responsibilities of the role as they exist today. This role may expand to include responsibilities that may be new to the Senior Corporate Attorney.

• Work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to ensure privacy by design and ongoing compliance with biometric privacy AI and cyber security laws and regulations.

• Develop and improve Entrusts privacy compliance program to meet requirements of existing and emerging laws.

• Advise colleagues across our business on customer-facing matters such as coordinating responses to customer privacy and security concerns including AI governance and transfer impact assessments communicating Entrusts privacy compliance and safeguards.

• Supporting the wider legal procurement and growth teams with client deals including being a point of escalation for contract negotiations.

• Respond to day-to-day privacy queries from across the Entrust business including on Product HR Contracts Client queries End User and Law Enforcement requests.

• Lead on privacy vendor due diligence and ongoing vendor management matters undertaking risk assessments developing supplier privacy compliance frameworks and managing records of processing including client notifications.

• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders including Product Marketing Compliance Legal Strategy HR and Information Security teams setting clear accountabilities and policies for data protection.

• Create and deliver training program legal resources and contribute to our playbooks.

• Monitor global privacy AI and biometric regulation and policy developments advise on risks and opportunities arising from emerging laws and help drive Entrusts policy positions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years experience in-house or at a top law firm (with secondment experience) with a solid focus in data protection matters

• Demonstrable experience of leading on a range of privacy projects and issues

• Expertise in advising on UK and EU GDPR ideally in a fast-paced technology company financial services company or other regulated industry

• Strong commercial acumen; able to take a pragmatic approach to legal risk and advise the business accordingly

• Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across all levels of the business.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong team player and can-do approach; no job is too big or too small

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic business

• Qualified to practise law in the UK or equivalent jurisdiction

• Interest in technology

• Must be able to lawfully work within the jurisdiction where the colleague resides

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior in-house experience within a high-growth technology company.

• Familiarity and working knowledge of other global data protection regimes including US state laws.

• Experience with data risk management and/or supporting audits from a privacy perspective.

• CIPP/E or equivalent.

About Entrust
Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted experiences for identities payments and digital infrastructure. We offer an unmatched breadth of solutions that are critical to enabling trust for multi-cloud deployments mobile identities hybrid work machine identity electronic signatures encryption and more. With more than 2800 colleagues a network of global partners and customers in over 150 countries its no wonder the worlds most entrusted organizations trust us. For more information visit .

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