Legal Counsel, Information Security and Incident Response

cross-functional teams, including regional legal teams, IT, compliance, and external stakeholders, to ensure a consistent and effective approach across jurisdictions.

• Collaborate with regional counsel in all operational jurisdictions to provide jurisdiction-specific legal advice, ensuring compliance with data breach notification laws, regulatory requirements, and industry standards globally.
• Develop and oversee incident response strategies by counseling internal stakeholders on legal implications, risk mitigation, and regulatory considerations throughout the incident lifecycle, including investigation, containment, and remediation.
• Draft, review, and coordinate regulatory and user notifications in alignment with applicable legal requirements, ensuring accurate and timely communication to impacted parties and regulators.
• Coordinate comprehensive post-incident reports and lead after-action reviews to identify legal and operational gaps, implement lessons learned, and continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks.
• Design and maintain incident response playbooks tailored to legal and regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions, ensuring teams are equipped to handle incidents effectively.
• Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and simulations to test and refine the organization's incident response readiness, providing legal insights to strengthen protocols and mitigate risks.
• Provide proactive legal counsel to cross-functional teams on cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies, including contract reviews, vendor management, and policy development to reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents.
• Monitor evolving global cybersecurity and privacy regulations to ensure incident response practices remain compliant and align with industry best practices.
• Develop and deliver training for internal teams to promote awareness of legal requirements, privilege considerations, and best practices in incident response and cybersecurity risk management.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree plus a Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Proven background and substantial experience in information security and data privacy incident response, including investigations, notification determinations, and assisting with remediation action items.
• Extensive experience at a law firm and/or in-house counseling at an enterprise technology or leading consumer-facing digital application, ideally including user-generated content.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with EU and UK GDPR and NIS2 a plus.
• Experience with working with international teams in various time zones in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills in a cross-functional and global role.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $170667 - $319200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.