Sr. Manager, Corporate Counsel, Privacy

Position Title: Senior Manager, Corporate Counsel, Privacy

Location: Dallas, Texas

Your role 

The Privacy Corporate Counsel will help ensure DLR’s compliance with global data protection laws and regulations by supporting the Company’s data protection program, and advising the Compliance and Privacy Teams. This role safeguards the organization’s reputation and mitigates financial, operational, and legal risks by supporting robust policies, procedures, and oversight aligned with global regulatory requirements.

What you’ll do 

Global, Cross-Organizational Advising

• Support and advise on the Company’s global data protection program consistent with relevant laws and regulations, including on best practices, mitigation of privacy risk, and compliance with U.S. and global data protection laws, legal and regulatory aspects of data collection and use, privacy disclosures and transparency, consent forms, and related issues.
• Review and advise on privacy considerations related to systems and data processing activities, as well as emerging products and technologies while partnering with cross-functional, global teams to ensure the design of new products, features, and business initiatives incorporate privacy and data security compliance.

Contract Negotiations

• Provide legal support for the strategic reviewing, drafting, and negotiating of privacy and data security terms in contracts with business partners and vendors, including data processing agreements, intra-company data transfer agreements, and standard contractual clauses (SCCs), and other data protection terms in agreements. 
• Prepare Transfer Impact Assessments.

Support Investigations

• Provide legal support on investigations involving reports of inappropriate or unauthorized access, loss or disclosure of personal data, including advising on potential liability, identifying legal obligations, and supporting incident response efforts.
• Support development of enterprise-wide best practices for incident response readiness and advising on all aspects of incident response, whether privacy and/or cybersecurity related.
• Experience with data loss prevention and cybersecurity events, including forensic investigations, breach notifications, and cybersecurity preparedness.

General

• Manage outside counsel effectively and efficiently.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard forms and the development and improvement of policies and procedures for the Legal Department. Execute assigned projects as determined by the needs of the Legal Department.

What you’ll need 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience counseling on global data protection and privacy laws.
• Juris Doctor (JD) from a nationally recognized law school.
• Requires standard competencies found in large legal environments: organization, communication, analysis, flexibility, process improvement and management of large projects.
• Experience at a law firm with global offices and experience as in-house counsel is highly preferred.
• Experience with business to business transactions with a focus on GDPR and CCPA is highly preferred.
• Candidates with Privacy certifications, such as, CIPP-US, CIPP-C, CIPP-E, CIPM, CHPC, as well as an understanding of data processing and information security concepts and technologies, and evaluating SOC2 reports for scope and control adequacy are highly preferred.
• Ability to identify and research legal risks and issues, and effectively counsel clients.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

Legal

Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we’re involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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