Legal Counsel - Regulatory Compliance, Product and Privacy

The role

You will work on compliance and privacy matters in the technology and enterprise software realm. This includes drafting corporate policies, developing global privacy programs, and providing legal support to product teams.

What you will do

• Drafting and reviewing corporate policies
• Spearheading process change and deploying controls to meet compliance regulatory requirements globally
• Developing, maintaining and scaling global privacy programs
• Conducting PIAs and ROPAs
• Supporting operational initiatives
• Evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulations, including AI regulations
• Providing legal support to internal clients including product teams
• Working with local counsel in many countries to seek and implement advice

Required qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Degree in law, JD or equivalent
• Active licence to practise law or current progress towards that
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Appreciative of diversity; polite and effective in a multicultural multinational organisation
• Ability to stay organised, proactive and efficient
• Ability to demonstrate good commercial judgement
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Nice to have

• Experience in compliance, data privacy, or product development
• Leadership and the ability to influence others to embrace new ideas or practices
• Understanding of the open source software community and values
• Understanding of the technology industry - silicon, data centers, PCs, connected devices, and software
• Experience working on in-house legal team and/or law firm

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. The company publishes Ubuntu and is a pioneer of globally-distributed collaboration.