Associate Regulatory Counsel, Privacy
Job Description
- 5 years of experience with legal, regulatory or corporate compliance
- Experience working with public company boards
- Experience working with technology companies
- Ability to understand complex technical issues
- Ability to be action-oriented
- Communication, time management, and investigative skills
- JD or equivalent degree
- Admitted to the bar
- 3 years of attorney-level experience
- Experience advising on global privacy and data protection laws
- Interpret laws and compliance obligations
- Provide legal advice on compliance programs
- Manage government and regulator discussions
- Experience engaging with regulators
- Experience developing and maintaining compliance programs
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, equivalent degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorised to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the country in which the position is located.
- 3 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
- Experience advising on global privacy and data protection laws.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience with legal, regulatory or corporate compliance, including strategically addressing, minimizing and avoiding regulatory risk.
- Experience engaging with regulators, including EU Data Protection Authorities, global data protection or consumer protection authorities.
- Experience developing, evaluating, and maintaining programs that ensure products comply with laws, regulations, and external commitments.
- Experience with working with public company boards and their counsel, including special committees and audit committees.
- Experience working with technology companies and ability to understand complex technical issues while managing projects and partnering with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to be action-oriented, with communication, time management, and investigative skills.
About the job
Regulatory Affairs helps the company innovate responsibly, and comply with laws around the world. We partner with teams across Global Affairs, Product Areas, and the rest of the company to ensure constructive engagement with governments and regulators while mitigating risk.
As an Associate Regulatory Counsel in Privacy, you’ll join a global team that provides subject matter expertise and engages with regulators, academics, and others to consider the role of privacy law in our changing economy, the development of new technology, and passage of new laws and regulations. You will be involved in interpreting laws, partnering with internal stakeholders across the company to mitigate risk, and helping communicate our compliance externally.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Interpret laws and other compliance obligations into requirements for Compliance, Business, Product, and Engineering teams.
- Provide legal advice on compliance programs and policies to help mitigate risk.
- Manage government and regulator discussions, negotiations, and disclosures on compliance readiness efforts.
