Senior Corporate Counsel

About the Job:

PagerDuty is seeking an experienced attorney with a strong privacy, data protection, and marketing/advertising background to join our Legal team.  The ideal candidate has shown the ability to build deep expertise in privacy, marketing, and advertising law, and to effectively build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders.  This person is also a highly motivated team player who loves to learn and is excited to make an immediate impact to the company’s values and growth, with the ability to think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for the privacy landscape of the future.

This role is expected to come into the San Francisco office 2 days per week as part of PagerDuty’s hybrid work model, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

What You’ll Do:

• Scale, and mature PagerDuty’s global privacy program, including planning and implementing self-help resources, training, tools and systems. 
• Support revenue objectives by collaborating with our Commercial Legal and Deal Desk teams to provide clear and concise counsel on privacy issues for customer deals, including DPAs and questionnaires.
• Support PagerDuty’s marketing initiatives by providing practical legal advice on a wide range of marketing and advertising legal issues, including issues that have a privacy overlap.
• Learn and understand PagerDuty’s business and technical operations and develop solutions to legal issues that take the above into account.
• Collaborate across the company (including partnership with Product Counsel, Procurement Counsel, Security Managers, Engineers, Product Managers, and IT managers) to support a variety of privacy matters and initiatives; such as data mapping, privacy by design, impact assessments, vendor data protection, privacy notices and policies, subject access requests, and incident response.
• Maintain awareness of the privacy and marketing/advertising legal landscape as PagerDuty’s subject matter expert, collaborating with outside counsel as needed on complex, higher-risk matters.
• Monitor and analyze emerging privacy, data protection, marketing, and advertising laws, regulations, enforcement activity, trends and industry best practices.
• Collaborate to develop PagerDuty’s public policy position in privacy, data protection, marketing and advertising. 
• Advise on likely trends and best practices to prepare for the future.
• Support non-privacy projects based on business priorities as a legal generalist, learning new areas of law as needed. Projects may include non-privacy product counseling areas, dispute resolution, or IP matters.

Basic Qualifications: 

• A law degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• Authorization to practice law in the state where you will be based, or eligibility to become authorized (e.g., eligible to register for an in-house counsel status in a state that offers such status).
• 6+ years of applicable legal experience at a leading law firm, in-house legal department, or governmental agency. 
• 3+ years of hands-on privacy experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep experience in privacy, including experience in GDPR, CCPA, CIPA and, ideally, other privacy frameworks as well.
• Solid experience advising on marketing and advertising legal issues, including reviewing marketing claims, adtech implementation, marketing consents, and contest rules.
• Passionate about issues that lie at the intersection of law and technology, including understanding the technical details. 
• Experience in litigation, M&A deals, regulatory inquiries, product counsel