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Director, Legal

Arctic Wolf · Remote, United States · Remote

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About Arctic Wolf

Instinct meets AI. Arctic Wolf Aurora's built-in agents operate at machine speed while human experts maintain oversight. 10,000+ customers. Machine-speed security, human trust. Backed by Lightspeed and Redpoint.

About the role

Own day-to-day operation of the global privacy program, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, other US state privacy laws, and other applicable regimes across the US, Canada, Europe, India and Australia, and monitor new laws and regulatory guidance to stay compliant ahead of effective dates. Draft, maintain, and improve privacy policies, notices, standards, records of processing, data maps, retention schedules, and internal guidance.

What they're looking for

  • J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
  • Seven or more years of relevant legal experience, including substantial privacy and data protection work and meaningful in-house experience at a technology company
  • Deep working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other major global privacy frameworks, plus the emerging AI regulatory landscape
  • Demonstrated experience operating a privacy program, not only advising on one, including assessments, records of processing, data subject requests, vendor review, and advising Product and Engineering on privacy by design and technical data flows
  • Experience supporting privacy and security incident response, including breach analysis and regulator inquiries
  • Strong drafting and negotiation skills covering data processing agreements, standard contractual clauses, and privacy and security terms in commercial contracts
More about this role

Arctic Wolf is seeking an experienced privacy attorney to serve as Director, Privacy and take day-to-day ownership of our global privacy program. Reporting to the VP of Commercial & Privacy, you will be the hands-on owner of privacy compliance across our channel-led, SaaS-enabled cybersecurity business serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.

This is a builder role for a pragmatic lawyer who translates evolving global privacy and data protection requirements into scalable processes. You will partner with Product and Engineering, Security, IT, People, Legal and other organizations to help shape privacy governance.

Own day-to-day operation of the global privacy program, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, other US state privacy laws, and other applicable regimes across the US, Canada, Europe, India and Australia, and monitor new laws and regulatory guidance to stay compliant ahead of effective dates.

Draft, maintain, and improve privacy policies, notices, standards, records of processing, data maps, retention schedules, and internal guidance.

Conduct and document data protection impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, and privacy reviews.

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