Description:
Responsibilities:This is a remote position. To help our teams work together, you will be located on the East Coast or Central North America.
Your future team
We're looking for a Senior Privacy Counsel - Incidents, reporting to the Director of Privacy - Incident Response. You'll join our Legal Incidents Team, a global team comprised of experienced privacy professionals with a background in incident management. We provide follow the sun support to the business in the event of an incident, ensuring that Atlassian is managing its legal obligations and living up to our values.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with business teams to investigate and manage legal obligations arising during incidents.
- Offer compliant business-focused solutions, balancing risk and Atlassian's values when making recommendations.
- Identify areas for improvement in our incident response capability, and work with partner teams to uplift our processes and tooling.
- Review and advise on external communications, including customer notices, during incidents.
- Build relationships which strengthen the connection between legal and partner teams.
Qualifications:
Your Background:
- 5 + years of experience practicing law, with experience providing legal advice during incidents, including privacy breaches.
- Necessary qualifications to practice law in your local jurisdiction.
- Knowledge of applicable privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR, Australian Privacy Act, etc.).
- Experience distilling complex legal and technical concepts into clear language, and communicating with senior leaders.
