VP, Legal, Head of Privacy & Data Strategy

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Your New Role The Vice President, Legal, Privacy & Data Strategy will lead a talented team of privacy attorneys and professionals, advise senior business executives and technology stakeholders, and manage a range of issues involving consumer, employee, talent, and enterprise data operations. This candidate will work with cutting-edge business models in ad tech, news, sports, and streaming entertainment. Ideal candidates must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of global privacy laws, expertise with technology, including privacy-enhancing technologies and artificial technology, and excellent management skills. Your Role Accountabilities Data Privacy Compliance and Data Enablement Global lead on privacy and data issues and initiatives related to consumers, workforce, and talent. Work with senior executives and technical subject matter experts on complex and innovative ad sales, ad-tech, and digital marketing products, including advanced advertising initiatives. Oversee and advise other Privacy Legal team members working on such projects globally. Provide clear, practical, solution-oriented, and ethical legal advice to achieve and maintain privacy compliance while enabling business goals for data use and monetization. Collaborate closely with senior executives across the company, including Senior Leadership, Legal, People & Culture, Risk Management, Internal Audit, Global Information & Content Security, Technology, Ad Sales, Tech, and businesses and brands to clearly communicate legal requirements and to align strategies and practices. Regulatory Investigations, Inquiries, and Collaboration: Coordinate and manage response and interactions with governmental authorities, works councils, external DPOs, consumer advocates, and other relevant entities on potential privacy and data protection inquiries, investigations, complaints, and actions. Collaborate with legal and business stakeholders to address rights requests and potential claims from international, talent, and consumers. Oversee management of data privacy registrations and compliance documentation across multiple jurisdictions. Develop and maintain strategic and influential relationships with trade associations, and where appropriate government officials, to advocate for the company’s interests in privacy and data protection policy, regulations, and standards, including by providing meaningful modifications and feedback. Monitor developments and maintain internal documentation about global privacy laws, requirements, enforcement priorities, and industry standards and practices. Agreements and Strategic Initiatives; Security Incidents: Conduct due diligence and collaborate with corporate teams on transactions with respect to privacy, data protection, and data use, including ownership, transfer, migration, retention, and processing. Draft and negotiate complex business and transactional agreement terms to comply with privacy and data protection laws and to maintain consistency in privacy and data strategy across the company (including for master services, development, enterprise technology/SAAS, professional services, ad tech, post-production, data sharing, distribution, and other agreements). Draft and maintain template language and strategic fallback positions. Work closely with Global Information & Content Security and other key stakeholders on alleged data incidents or breaches to analyze facts and legal requirements, manage response and notifications, provide mitigation recommendations, review and track documentation, and meaningfully participate in post-mortem and tabletop exercises. Develop and manage a vendor program to facilitate vetting, auditing, classification, and proper configuration of vendor data transfer and use. Data Governance: Collaborate with business and technology teams to design and establish efficient and legally compliant global data governance processes and documentation, including system and data inventories, data mapping and lineage, records of processing activities (ROPAs), data use cases, record and data retention. Oversee the design, execution, and organization of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and legitimate interest assessments (LIAs), responses to individual rights requests, including data subject access Apply tot his job Apply To this Job