Global Privacy Counsel

Senior Global Privacy Counsel

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What we offer

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time - 15 days of vacation first year and three floating holidays
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

What you will do:

Under broad direction from the Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, the person will serve as trusted counsel to product and functional teams to ensure that products, services, and business applications align with global privacy regulations and the Global Privacy Program.

How you will do it:

Guide the business on sophisticated privacy and data issues as well as how privacy interacts and impacts emerging technologies (especially artificial intelligence (A.I.) and facial recognition) and develop creative solutions while ensuring compliance with privacy laws

Development and facilitation of privacy training and education programs covering global privacy practices.

Provide direction on the implementation of administrative, technical, and physical procedures to protect the privacy of personal data.

Collaborate with product and business teams at all stages of product development to identify any potential privacy risk and provide counseling on risk-mitigation

Analyze policies and initiatives to provide practical privacy risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions

Monitor and respond to developments in data protection and privacy (i.e., new laws, regulations, essential judgments, regulatory guidance, etc.)

Provide policy, legal, product, engineering, and other business teams with legal advice on global data protection laws and regulations, including for external communication (including liaising with privacy regulators), policy development, and enforcement decisions

What we look for:

The successful candidate will be a forward-looking lawyer with a deep understanding of the businesses they support. They must have demonstrated capability for innovative thinking, challenging the status quo, and leading organizational changes. They must have the credibility to function as a trusted advisor to the business leaders they support.

For this position, the qualified candidate will have demonstrated subject matter expertise in data protection and privacy in a multi-national environment.

Candidate must have a J.D. (or foreign equivalent) with a minimum of 7 years of tried experience . I ideally supporting: sophisticated data privacy matters within b2b and/or b2c environments.

The candidate must be a disciplined legal drafter/writer and possess a problem-solving, "can do" orientation with a demonstrated ability to simplify complex situations.

U.S. candidates must be fully licensed to practice law and member of at least one U.S. state bar

Johnson Controls International plc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view more information about your equal opportunity and non-discrimination rights as a candidate, visit EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit here.