Senior Counsel Privacy and Compliance

About Pantheon

Pantheon’s WebOps Platform powers the open web, running sites in the cloud for customers including Stitch Fix, Okta, Home Depot, Pernod Ricard and The Barack Obama Foundation. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers create, iterate, and scale websites on the open web to reach billions of people globally. Pantheon’s SaaS model puts large and small web and digital teams in control of increasing the performance of their teams, websites, and marketing programs. Pantheon cloud native software includes governance, security and collaboration tools that make it easy to securely manage a single website or thousands of websites across multiple teams in one platform. The built-in ability to simultaneously create, test, deploy and run live sites with unrivaled hosting speed, scalability and uptime give marketing teams the agility to win in the dynamic world of digital marketing.

With 35% of the web running open-source and significant investments in a $200 billion total addressable market, we are growing aggressively into a huge market opportunity and looking to expand our organization. 

The Role

As a Pantheon Senior Counsel of Privacy and Compliance, you are an experienced architect of privacy and compliance matters inside of fast growing technology companies. You are drawn to the world of cutting edge technology and the intellectual property that fuels its growth.  

Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel, you will support the building of a world-class legal department that powers a category defining website operations platform. At Pantheon, we put the power in the hands of our customers by delivering the most complete, bulletproof, and creativity-enabling platform for web teams. 

Cool Things You’ll Do

Privacy Governance Program

• Analyze new laws, regulations, enforcement and litigation trends to determine potential adverse impact on Pantheon’s business operations with respect to key areas of responsibility, and present findings and recommendations to senior management
• Demonstrate measurable maturity of our privacy program that is uniquely configured to Pantheon’s business and continual progress towards privacy by design
• Develop and disseminate privacy compliance training and privacy policy updates and drive an accountability framework with the necessary enablement for risk areas in Engineering (including Information Security), Marketing, People, Product, and Sales
• Ensure proper alignment of policies and practices with the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, and any required enrollment in the program
• Ensure data processing agreements are updated to include new Standard Contractual Clauses, as necessary

Commercial Support and Systems

• Implement and update OneTrust modules and continue to measure the impact and success of the tool against privacy governance 
• Negotiate data processing agreements (including US state addendums) with critical customers, and update, develop and launch playbooks, guidelines and training for reviewing and negotiating such agreements to the commercial legal team
• Ensure that new and existing contracts and organizational policies are in compliance with laws as they continue to develop and/or change and organizational policies

Strategic Management and Collaboration

• Partner with InfoSec on vendor management initiatives, and conduct audits of subprocessors to ensure compliance with GDPR
•  Recommend insurance coverage and support analysis in light of Pantheon’s risks and privacy program maturity
• Actively participate in strategic legal team projects where no task is too large or too small  
• Raise early awareness of risks and non-compliance issues to enterprise risk committee and management with recommended solutions
• Conduct special projects as assigned

What you Bring to the Table

You will lead the charge in advancing privacy by design, the execution of privacy operations and compliance awareness within the company, and consistently highlighting and closing risks in cooperation with cross functional stakeholders. You will be committed to a shared Pantheon purpose and problem solving with efficiency and effectiveness. The impact you deliver to the company will be demonstrated by your ability to diagnose and cure underlying privacy and business risks with precision and leadership across functions, and your ability to develop strategies to address emerging enforcement and litigation risks.  At Pantheon, we want you to do the best work of your career, which in this role will mean you will:

• Demonstrate positive quarterly progress in reimagining the privacy program and developing, in stages, a state of the art privacy by design system
• Fully implement the OneTrust platform with a measurable impact to the company’s ongoing compliance capabilities
• Identify clear areas of impact where you have anticipated risk behavior and led solutions around Pantheon’s business practices across privacy, insurance and any applicable litigation
• Be a sought after contributor to critical Pantheon initiatives both within and outside of your areas of expertise
• Anticipate and raise collective awareness of emerging issues in privacy, enforcement and litigation before these impact a Pantheon strategic objective or result in liabilities against Pantheon
• Become an admired voice on the team byof consistently exhibiting our values

What uniquely describes you:

• Highly effective communicator in a pressured environment 
• Proven ability to win the hearts and minds of both management and customer parties
• Demonstrated ability to self-evaluate and invest in continuous improvement
• Analytically driven (with both words and numbers)
• Strong initiative to own and accomplish projects from initiation to reporting and remediation
• Consistently makes sound and timely decisions after analyzing all aspects of a situation
• Combines knowledge, curiosity, imagination, and evaluation to achieve desired results

Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in a legal role, with relevant experience at a reputable firm and/or at a technology services company in privacy
• Proven ability to launch privacy compliance or compliance-related programs with OneTrust
• A model for steward leadership with a clear awareness of strengths and development objectives
• Proven negotiation skills gained through years of successfully undertaking a commercial contracts role
• Skilled mentor to team members
• Comfortable dealing with all levels of our organization in a proactive fashion
• Strong organizational, project management, and execution skills
• Proactive approach to recognizing needs, anticipating issues, and solving problems
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple time-sensitive tasks, and manage competing priorities effectively and independently, including driving results and delivering to deadlines and budgets
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a growing legal team and cross-functionally
• Strong interpersonal skills, team-oriented attitude, and superior attention to detail
• Technology-savvy skills, including proficiency in all Google and Microsoft applications, as well as OneTrust modules

What We Offer

We have all the usual perks and benefits but what we can really offer you is a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team.

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
• Flexible time off and sick days
• Full medical coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• Top-of-line equipment
• Fun at WordPress and Drupal community events
• Extra benefits like a stipend for reading books and your workouts 
• Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire, educate and cultivate 

Pantheon is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.  Pantheon complies with federal and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process, please contact talent@pantheon.io. Pursuant to local and federal regulations, Pantheon will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

After an offer is made and accepted, E-verify will be utilized to establish your identity and employment eligibility as required by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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