Senior Privacy Counsel (Full Time, Remote Position)

About VeraSafe:

VeraSafe is an innovative and successful U.S. headquartered privacy and cybersecurity compliance consulting firm and law firm. Due to rapid growth and increased demand for our international privacy and technology compliance and legal services, VeraSafe is seeking creative, motivated, and collaborative attorneys with healthcare and life science experience to join our data protection and privacy practice. This is a fully remote position and will remain a fully remote position.

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VeraSafe is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work©, with 96% of our employees affirming that we are truly a great place to work . This means we foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment. We are committed to maintaining this standard of meaningful work, work-life balance, and a supportive community. Check out our great benefits, listed at the end of this job description.

VeraSafe frequently hires for attorney and consultant positions on a rolling basis. We are growing rapidly and seek to proactively build a strong talent pool to meet sustained, increasing client demand.

About the Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for an attorney with more than 10 years of experience who wants to join a team working on the cutting edge of privacy and data protection, and who wants to further develop a practice in an in-demand, high-tech area of law.

While this role requires professional experience in privacy law , we are prepared to welcome you to our team with a robust and established onboarding and training process. We typically advance people more quickly than your typical law firm, and we do it on an individual basis (no lockstep promotions or compensation). This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to join a team working on the cutting edge of privacy and data protection, and who wants to further develop a practice in an in-demand area of law at the intersection of privacy and life science. We are inundated with business from clients in the healthcare, life science, and pharmaceutical spaces who love the way we advise on privacy compliance (hence the need for you!).

Note : There is a 1-3 hour skills assessment associated with the recruitment for this position. We know this is a burden, but we think it’s worth it, and we appreciate you taking the time to complete it. We’ve found it enables us to find the best attorneys, regardless of their experience, where they went to law school, or where they were trained. We want smart, kind, creative lawyers, plain and simple, and this assessment is a crucial part of our ability to hire this way.

We are not your typical legal job. We use project managers to keep our remote team organized and our projects streamlined and on-track. We encourage our team members to travel and to make use of our ability to work as digital nomads, whether that means spending a few months abroad or on extended trips to be near family. We collaborate closely (you won’t feel like you’re working in isolation) and we actively encourage sharing of credit for work well done, resources, and advice (and penalize the reverse). We are not biglaw. We do top-notch work for interesting clients, yet we pride ourselves on our team members being happy, with time and energy for a life outside of work, which we believe makes us better attorneys who don’t burn out.

The bottom line: If you want to learn or go deeper practicing privacy law, if you want to practice in a problem-solving environment focused on giving excellent and yet actionable advice, if you want to work with a global team of friendly, brilliant people, if you want the flexibility to work in a way that makes sense to you, please apply!

Responsibilities Include:

• Leading client projects with a focus on client satisfaction and engagement, ensuring accurate high-quality work products, and monitoring and managing profitability
• Supervising junior attorneys and team members and providing feedback and guidance
• Working directly with VeraSafe clients, including leading client engagements
• Assessing client information systems for compliance with data protection regulations
• Drafting data protection agreements, addenda, and amendments
• Advising clients on privacy-related product improvements
• Researching legal issues and composing legal opinions/memoranda
• Writing privacy law related articles and blog posts
• Leading the development of in-house legal templates
• Leading the development of internal procedures and methodologies

What We Need From You:

Required :

• 10+ years of work experience as a practicing attorney
• At least 3-5 years of work experience as a privacy attorney—preferably with significant experience working with the GDPR, the former EU Data Protection Directive, Privacy Shield, or US privacy laws
• Privacy certifications of some kind (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPP/US, specialty from law school, etc.)
• Experience supervising junior attorneys and the ability to provide direction and feedback in a helpful and positive manner
• Experience working closely with clients and successfully managing client relationships
• License to practice law in your jurisdiction
• Team player, interested in contributing to a growing enterprise
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Ability to work remotely

Preferred :

• Experience working in a law firm
• 15+ years of work experience as a practicing attorney
• 5+ years of work experience as a privacy attorney
• Work experience both in a professional services firm (law firm or consulting firm) and in-house counsel position
• Experience, training, or certification in one of the following areas: IT security, DevOps, programming, web development, MIS/CIS, or other technology field

Key Competencies:

• Detail-oriented and highly organized with a strong work ethic
• Tech-savvy and comfortable using a variety of software applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong leadership and management capabilities
• Ability to manage your own schedule in order to work successfully with international teams and meet aggressive deadlines
• Ability to work independently and fully deliver on all commitments

VeraSafe’s Excellent Benefits Include:

• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• 401(k) plan: Employer match of up to 2% of employee salary
• Eligibility for annual bonuses
• Reimbursement for certain personal flight tickets
• Flexible working schedule in some roles
• Work from almost anywhere with Wi-Fi
• Membership in the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and IAPP exam fee reimbursement (CIPP/E) and eligibility for bonuses for achieving professional certifications
• Company laptop provided
• Twice-a-month paydays
• Direct deposit

Health Insurance, Other Insurance, HSA Benefits, etc.:

• Health Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA): Pre-taxed funds available to pay for health-related expenses
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Basic Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Employee Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Spouse Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Child(ren) Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD): Income assistance if unable to work due to injury/disability after 180 days from start of injury/disability
• Short Term Disability (STD): Income assistance (up to 26 weeks) if unable to work due to injury/disability after 14 days from start of injury/disability
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D)
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Legal Plan: Unlimited access (in person, by phone, online) to network attorneys for certain legal matters
• Group Accident Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• OCB Transit Reimbursement: Pre-taxed funds available to pay for mass transit expenses
• Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)/Limited Health Care FSA: Pre-taxed funds available to pay for some health-related expenses
• Dependent Care FSA: Pre-taxed funds available to pay for dependent care expenses (such as daycare)

Other Benefits:

• Tremendous professional development growth opportunities in the privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity niche
• The chance to have a long-lasting effect on a small but growing international business
• Work in an open environment with a team that respects your ideas and contributions
• Occasional opportunities to travel in North America and Europe

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