Director, Legal

Arctic Wolf is seeking an experienced privacy attorney to serve as Director, Privacy and take day-to-day ownership of our global privacy program. Reporting to the VP of Commercial & Privacy, you will be the hands-on owner of privacy compliance across our channel-led, SaaS-enabled cybersecurity business serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.

This is a builder role for a pragmatic lawyer who translates evolving global privacy and data protection requirements into scalable processes. You will partner with Product and Engineering, Security, IT, People, Legal and other organizations to help shape privacy governance.

Responsibilities

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• Own day-to-day operation of the global privacy program, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, other US state privacy laws, and other applicable regimes across the US, Canada, Europe, India and Australia, and monitor new laws and regulatory guidance to stay compliant ahead of effective dates.
• Draft, maintain, and improve privacy policies, notices, standards, records of processing, data maps, retention schedules, and internal guidance.
• Conduct and document data protection impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, and privacy reviews.
• Partner with our product counsel to embed privacy by design into our product development. Partner with Product and Engineering on data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, access, sharing, and retention, and reviewing technical specifications and data flows with privacy implications.
• Serve as a primary privacy contact for security and privacy incidents, working with Security Operations and outside counsel to assess notification obligations and manage regulator and customer inquiries.
• Serve as an escalation point for commercial legal and sourcing teams on privacy terms in customer, partner, reseller and vendor agreements, and maintain data processing agreements, subprocessor disclosures, standard contractual clauses, and business