Associate Director & Assistant General Counsel,...

An American Multinational Conglomerate Company is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The following position is to join RTX Corporate:
Associate Director and Assistant General Counsel, Privacy

What you will do:

• Advise and counsel RTX and its businesses on all aspects of global privacy and data protection law, focusing on reviews of assessments, incident response, compliance, and transactions and contracts.
• Serve as the lead Privacy Professional for the RTX Corporate Office and work closely with the Privacy Professionals and Data Protection Officers and Stewards in the businesses.
• Provide day-to-day legal support to the RTX Corporate organization, and where needed, in coordination with the appropriate RTX LCC function (e.g., Cybersecurity, Global Trade, Intellectual Property).
• Work with the RTX Corporate functions to ensure that their policies and processes incorporate current and compliant privacy requirements.
• Review privacy impact assessments and privacy terms in contracts for the RTX Corporate organization and for RTX as a whole.
• Support data inventory activities related to our regulatory requirements.
• Participate in and support the annual privacy self-assessment program, the internal audit testing of privacy controls, and other program effectiveness monitoring efforts.
• Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of privacy and data protection policies, standard work, playbooks, guidance, templates, and other documentation, including our Binding Corporate Rules.
• Develop and deliver training on privacy and data protection law, including continuing legal education (CLE) for lawyers and continuing professional education (CPE) for contract professionals, as well as assist with the development and delivery of general awareness training for employees, contractors, and third parties.
• Manage the response to and investigation of data incidents involving personal information and be responsible for ensuring timely satisfaction of legal reporting obligations.
• Manage outside counsel and vendors engaged on privacy and data protection legal matters.
• Travel minimally.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Juris Doctor
• Admitted to and able to maintain the ability practice law in the U.S.
• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of relevant law firm, government and/or relevant in-house experience.
• Knowledge of global privacy and data protection laws, regulations, policies, and similar.
• Previous experience counseling clients on compliance obligations, including transaction assessments, contract terms, and incident response.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Minimum 10 years law firm and/or in-house experience in privacy and data protection law.
• Experience with using privacy and data protection digital tools, such as OneTrust.
• Previous experience advising and counseling clients on privacy and data protection matters, including Binding Corporate Rules, conduct of privacy impact assessments, incident response to address privacy obligations, and negotiation of privacy contract terms.
• Strong investigative, analytical, written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment while organizing and managing multiple responsibilities and projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Confidence to negotiate data privacy contract terms with large multi-national companies.
• Effective team builder and team player that fosters collaborative relationships.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability and ability to make decisions efficiently and quickly.
• Experience working in both corporate and business legal functions.
• Knowledge of information technology, cybersecurity, and global trade.