Corporate Counsel, Product & Regulatory

Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Our products include the Visual Collaboration Suite (Lucidchart and Lucidspark) and airfocus. We hold true to our core values: innovation in everything we do passion & excellence in every area individual empowerment initiative and ownership and teamwork over ego. At Lucid we value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to creating an environment and culture that is respectful and inclusive for everyone. Lucid is a hybrid workplace. We promote a healthy work-life balance by allowing employees to work remotely from one of our offices or a combination of the two depending on the needs of the role and team.

Since the companys founding Lucid Software has received numerous global and regional recognitions for its products business and workplace culture. These include being listed to the Forbes Cloud 100 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology and PEOPLEs Companies that Care. Lucids solutions are used by more than 100 million users across the globe making Lucid the most used visual collaboration platform by the Fortune 500. Our customers include Google GE and NBC Universal and we partner with leaders such as Google Atlassian and Microsoft.

Protecting Lucid and our users is core to our business. Were looking for a Corporate Counsel - Product & Regulatory to join our close-knit legal department working on our Compliance team. This role will work directly with our cross-functional teams as the legal point of contact to advise on the implementation of compliance requirements across the business (including engineering marketing growth and product) and will be responsible for ongoing compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will be an analytical thinker who asks lots of questions is able to efficiently interpret emerging and existing legal requirements and is adept at providing actionable and practical compliance advice to Lucids cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage develop and improve Lucids compliance programs.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with Lucids compliance programs by monitoring emerging laws and changes in Lucids business operations and product development.
  • Serve as Lucids subject matter expert on global laws and principles applicable to Lucids business including data privacy laws (e.g. GDPR CCPA) AI regulations marketing and sales outreach and other key compliance areas applicable to SaaS operations.
• Responsibility for tasks such as risk-based privacy compliance assessments organization-wide controls to track compliance with relevant laws and contractual commitments and assisting with creating and maintaining compliance resources and policies.
• Continuously engage with and advise teams across Lucid to help them navigate legal and contractual requirements and relevant controls related to product development vendors and business operations.
• Develop deep expertise in our products and technology stack and how they use and process information.
• Promote the principle of least privilege and privacy best practices across Lucid.
• Exercise a high degree of independent judgment and discretion in supporting our business teams.

Requirements:

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school with excellent academic credentials; admission to a State Bar and an active license to practice law in that State.
• 3-5 years of relevant legal experience dealing with global regulatory regimes relevant to the SaaS technology industry and supporting product teams.
• Experience formulating advice that balances legal risk and business impact with an ability to distill and effectively communicate risks and impact to non-legal business partners (e.g. engineering product and marketing).
• Experience working with product technology and other internal teams to operationalize compliance requirements with the ability to influence across functions and track and manage the project through completion.
• Ability to research interpret and provide actionable analysis about complex regulations and legal requirements to Lucid management.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly prioritize multiple urgent tasks take action and provide clear direction in the face of ambiguity.
• Genuine interest in learning about technology and desire to tackle complex problems with creative solutions.
• Willingness to take initiative be accountable and interface with Lucids cross-functional teams as a key point of contact on the Compliance team.
• Excellent written/verbal communication.
• Ability to organize prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Detail-oriented organized and the willings to work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Highly responsive and service-oriented attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical background in product development and privacy controls.

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