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 counseling or IP.
• Successful ability to investigate analyze and solve complex legal issues and develop practical risk mitigation options.
• Demonstrated ability to concisely accurately and clearly explain legal considerations with context to a wide range of audiences both orally and in writing including translating between legal frameworks and technical details.
• History of building collaborative relationships and catalyzing others.
• Ability to envision and lead complex projects to successful completion and to manage multiple projects at once ensuring focus on the highest priority needs.
• Proven track record of identifying the most important issues explaining why they matter and developing practical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to act on the best information available and manage uncertainty including in areas of newly emerging and evolving laws.
• Desire to learn a strong work ethic a high level of integrity and dedication to  providing top-notch legal counsel.
• Team player-mindset with a positive attitude a love of solving problems and a passion for delighting customers and earning their trust.

The base salary range for this position is 164000 - 276000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus commission equity and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role level and location. The range which is subject to change based on primary work location reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location job-related knowledge skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

What We Do

PagerDuty Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management enabling customers to achieve operational efficiency at scale with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps Automation Customer Service Operations and Incident Management with a powerful generative AI assistant to create a flexible resilient and scalable platform to increase innovation velocity grow revenue reduce cost and mitigate the risk of operational failure. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 rely on PagerDuty as essential infrastructure for the modern enterprise. PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™ a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials a Fortune Best Medium Workplace a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2. Go behind-the-scenes at careers.pagerduty.com and @pagerduty on Instagram.

Why Work With Us

PagerDuty offers a hybrid flexible environment where ambition thrives. We champion innovation learning and growth through our core values: Champion the Customer Take the Lead Run Together Ack & Own and Bring Your Self. Join us!

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