- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Legal
- Posted
- Sep 3, 2026
Full-time
Sr Director Privacy & Data Protection Legal
Job description
Primary Function of Position: The Senior Director of Privacy & Data Protection will be responsible for identifying and ensuring the company’s obligations under data privacy and data protection laws, including AI, across the globe. The role requires the attorney to both manage and perform direct work on many varied privacy and data protection legal matters, including protecting customer, employee and patient personal data, licensing data assets, advising on data protection terms in contracts, and digital data matters. The attorney will interact daily with engineers, researchers, human resources, IT, product security, marketing and company executives.
Job responsibilities
- Counsel managers, individual contributors, business units, and executives regarding Privacy & Data Protection matters. Actively seek out and identify opportunities to enhance our privacy program.
- Work with to ensure that personal information is protected using the appropriate legal and risk frameworks.
- Identify and advise on privacy and data protection risks and opportunities that impact business goals and priorities employing a risk-based approach.
- Advise company executives about value of data assets to license or purchase.
- Advise company executives about privacy and data protection laws, including emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence. Analyze new and emerging data privacy and data protection laws.
- Lead readiness and implementation for new laws.
- Advise on enforcement activities that will likely impact the company.
- Support privacy and data breach investigations, remediations and regulator inquiries.
Job requirements
- Juris Doctorate
- Membership in at least one U.S. Bar
- At least one IAPP certification
- Minimum of thirteen years’ experience in global Data Privacy legal and compliance matters, and working with non-U.S. counsels in various foreign jurisdictions in
- In addition, to effectively perform the responsibilities of this position, the following skills are preferred: Eligibility for Membership in the California State Bar or as registered in-house counsel
- Proven experience identifying and managing privacy risks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience in the health care industry including direct patient care, life sciences, academic medical research, and/or medical devices
- Superior interpersonal skills for engaging closely with various executives, managers, employees, and employee teams, making and communicating difficult information/decisions, and inspiring excellence in others.