Senior Legal Counsel (Product & Privacy)
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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
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The Opportunity at Culture Amp
Culture Amp is currently seeking a Senior Legal Counsel (Privacy and Product) to join our Legal team, reporting to our Head of Legal – Product and Privacy. This role will provide an opportunity to work cross-functionally with a number of practices across the business including Security, Product and Marketing to provide advice and guidance in relation to privacy, artificial intelligence, product development, data governance and product updates. You will also provide assistance with management of governance structures and processes that at central in the development of our platform. In this role will be challenged to find innovation solutions and product changes that will drive regulatory compliance in a fast-paced, growth focused environment.
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Legal team at a high growth technology company and gain unique experience what it takes to build a successful global SaaS business while also having a real impact in shaping our platform and product offerings.
From assisting our developers and designers, to co-ordinating cross-functional projects your involvement in all aspects of the business is not just encouraged – it’s essential. As a result, you’ll need to be comfortable working through complex problems to identify the key issues and use your legal expertise to find the best commercial outcome.
You have
- A Bachelor of Laws or JD. Admission to practice in Victoria or any other Australian jurisdiction.
- 3-5 years’ experience at a highly regarded law firm, and a bonus if you have additional experience working in-house in the technology industry (ideally startups).
- Experience with B2B, enterprise and technology contracts.
- Working knowledge of international data privacy regimes including the Australian Privacy Act, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA and the EU AI Act.
- An IAPP certification (CIPP/E, CIPM or AIGP) will be viewed favourably but is not essential.
- Experience with data privacy and data protection aspects of product development laws, artificial intelligence and data security.
- The ability to draft legal documents, policies and strategies and meeting decks precisely and in plain language.
- Strong planning and organisation skills, as well as the ability to multitask and work with members of other practices.
- The attention to detail you'd expect from a lawyer.
- Experience working in-house, in particular within a SaaS business is highly desirable
You are
- A confident, effective and positive advisor who can help our sales teams through difficult customer sales.
- A practitioner with a high level of integrity and judgment that is supported by great communication skills.
- Of a mindset that enables you to work independently, but also to use good judgment and escalate issues when needed.
You will
- Be involved in data privacy aspects of the business including advising on product development, integrations, sub processors, vendor engagement and data subject access requests.
- Review and provide guidance on Artificial Intelligence Impact Assessments and Privacy Impact Assessments tied to development of new product features.
- Actively monitor and advice on privacy and artificial intelligence laws including the Australian Privacy Act, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA and EU AI Act.
- Review and update internal strategies, policies and customer facing collateral reflecting our privacy and AI posture.
- Actively participate in Data Governance Practice meetings for both the Data Governance Core Practice and Data and AI Working Group.
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Security and other business teams on cross-functional projects.
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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