Data Protection, Privacy and Security Of Counsel

DLA Piper; California; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Piper is seeking a privacy and data protection attorney to advise emerging growth and technology clients on regulatory obligations and governance across the corporate lifecycle.

You will help craft privacy, cybersecurity and AI governance programs, and work with product, engineering, and leadership to ensure privacy-by-design in new offerings.

Qualifications

• Experience advising on privacy and data protection across technology companies.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. and international privacy laws and AI governance.
• Ability to draft and negotiate privacy clauses in SaaS, cloud and licensing agreements.

Responsibilities

• Advise emerging growth, venture-backed and public tech companies on privacy, cybersecurity and AI governance.
• Draft, review, and negotiate privacy and data security provisions in commercial agreements.
• Support incident response preparedness, regulatory investigations, and compliance programs.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and leadership to embed privacy-by-design principles.

Skills

Privacy law

Data protection

AI governance

Technology counseling

Job description

Overview

• Advise emerging growth companies, venture-backed technology companies, unicorns, public technology companies, venture capital investors, and strategic acquirers on practical, business-focused privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, and product counseling across the corporate lifecycle.
• Counsel clients on U.S. and international privacy and data protection laws, including state privacy statutes and global frameworks, along with AI governance, responsible AI deployment, data use practices, training data considerations, and emerging regulatory obligations.
• Draft, review, and negotiate privacy and data security provisions in commercial, technology, SaaS, licensing, cloud services, strategic partnership, and vendor agreements.
• Support venture-backed and high-growth companies from formation through exit, including privacy compliance program development and product launches.
• Conduct privacy and cybersecurity diligence for venture financings, mergers, acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions.
• Advise on incident response preparedness, regulatory investigations, breach notification obligations, and security governance frameworks, and develop privacy notices, policies, data processing agreements, consent mechanisms, and internal governance documentation.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, and executive leadership teams to integrate privacy-by-design and AI governance principles into business operations, and collaborate with lawyers across the firm's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital, Technology Transactions, and M&A practices.
• Requires deep familiarity with California privacy laws, consumer privacy regulation, data security requirements, and emerging AI regulations.
• Desired experience includes product counseling for AI, SaaS, cloud, marketplace, or platform companies, as well as cross-border data transfer and international compliance counseling.
• The role operates under a hybrid work model, involving regular in-office presence with some flexibility for work-from-home.