Life Sciences Privacy Counsel (Full Time, Remote Position)

VeraSafe; Town of Brussels (WI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Paid holidays

Annual bonuses

IAPP exam fee reimbursement (CIPP/E)

Job summary

VeraSafe is a U.S.-headquartered privacy and cybersecurity compliance firm seeking creative, collaborative lawyers with healthcare and life sciences experience to join our data protection and privacy practice. This is a fully remote role.

The team emphasizes rapid onboarding, individualized advancement, and a culture focused on balance and meaningful work. We value smart, kind, and creative lawyers who can work effectively with an international team.

Qualifications

• Must have at least three years of work experience as a lawyer.
• Interest in privacy and technology.
• Team player with growth mindset.
• Excellent writing/editing skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work remotely and take direction from partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data protection aspects of a clinical trial from start to finish.
• Assess study protocols for privacy issues.
• Conduct data protection impact assessments.
• Review CTAs, ICFs, and privacy policies.
• Draft data protection agreements, addenda, and amendments.
• Research legal issues and draft opinions/memoranda.
• Write clinical trials, GCP, and privacy law related articles.

Skills

Legal experience

Privacy law

Strong writing

Remote work

Job description

About VeraSafe:

VeraSafe is an innovative and successful U.S. headquartered privacy and cybersecurity compliance consulting firm and law firm. Due to rapid growth and increased demand for our international privacy and technology compliance and legal services, VeraSafe is seeking creative, motivated, and collaborative lawyers with healthcare and life science experience to join our data protection and privacy practice. This is a fully remote position.

Watch / listen to learn more about VeraSafe: Check out our podcast!

Apple Podcast

https://apple.co/4b28hwE

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@PrivacyInPractice/videos

Spotify:

https://bit.ly/4moSMU7

VeraSafe is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work©, with 95% of our employees affirming that we are truly a great place to work. This means we foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment. We are committed to maintaining this standard of meaningful work, work-life balance, and a supportive community. Check out our great benefits, listed at the end of this job description.

VeraSafe frequently hires for lawyer and consultant positions on a rolling basis. We are growing rapidly and seek to proactively build a strong talent pool to meet sustained, increasing client demand.

We encourage you to apply directly through LinkedIn, where every application is reviewed by a member of our team. To ensure we can devote our time to carefully reviewing each application, we are unable to respond to emails regarding this opening.

About the Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to join a team working on the cutting edge of privacy and data protection, and who wants to further develop a practice in an in-demand area of law at the intersection of privacy and life science. We are inundated with business from clients in the life science and pharmaceutical space who love the way we advise on privacy compliance (hence the need for you!).

We have found our strongest team members don’t necessarily have prior experience in privacy law. You’ll begin with a robust and established onboarding and training process. We typically advance people more quickly than your typical law firm, and we do it on an individual basis (no lockstep promotions or compensation).

Note: There is a 1-3 hour skills assessment associated with the recruitment for this position. We know this is a burden, but we think it’s worth it, and we appreciate you taking the time to complete it. We’ve found it enables us to find the best lawyers, regardless of their experience, where they went to law school, or where they were trained. We want smart, kind, creative lawyers, plain and simple, and this assessment is a crucial part of our ability to hire this way.

We are not your typical legal job. We use project managers to keep our remote team organized and our projects streamlined and on-track. We encourage our team members to travel and to make use of our ability to work as digital nomads, whether that means spending a few months abroad or on extended trips to be near family. We collaborate closely (you won’t feel like you’re working in isolation) and we actively encourage sharing of credit for work well done, resources, and advice (and penalize the reverse). We are not biglaw. We do top-notch work for interesting clients, yet we pride ourselves on our team members being happy, with time and energy for a life outside of work, which we believe makes us better lawyers who don’t burn out.

The bottom line: If you want to learn or go deeper practicing privacy law, if you want to practice in a problem-solving environment focused on giving excellent and yet actionable advice, if you want to work with a global team of friendly, brilliant people, if you want the flexibility to work in a way that makes sense to you, please apply!

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the data protection aspects of a clinical trial from start to finish
• Assessing study protocols for privacy issues
• Conducting data protection impact assessments
• Reviewing CTAs, ICFs, and privacy policies
• Drafting data protection agreements, addenda, and amendments
• Researching legal issues and composing legal opinions/memoranda
• Writing clinical trials, GCP, and privacy law related articles and blog posts
• Assisting in the development of in-house legal templates
• Contributing to the development of internal procedures and methodologies
• Collaborating with a team of intellectual peers who value cooperation and community

What We Need From You

Need to have:

• At least three years of work experience as a lawyer
• An interest in privacy and technology
• Team player, interested in contributing to a growing enterprise
• Strong writing/editing skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work remotely
• Willingness to learn new skills and receive direction and feedback from partners
• Willingness to pursue privacy certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPM)

Nice to have:

• Experience working in a law firm
• Previous contract drafting and negotiation experience strongly preferred
• Experience/training in privacy law
• Privacy certifications of some kind (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPP/US, specialty from law school, etc.)
• Professional involvement in the privacy and/or data security space (attendance at privacy conferences; membership or publication in the IAPP, etc.)

Key Competencies

• Detail-oriented and highly organized with a strong work ethic
• Tech-savvy and comfortable using a variety of software applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage your own schedule in order to work successfully with international teams and meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently and fully deliver on all commitments

VeraSafe’s Excellent Benefits Include:

• Work from almost anywhere with Wi-Fi
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Annual bonuses
• Membership in the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and IAPP exam fee reimbursement (CIPP/E)
• Flexible working schedule in some roles
• Reimbursement for certain personal flight ticket
• Company laptop provided

Other Benefits:

• Tremendous professional development growth opportunities in the privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity niche
• The chance to have a long‑lasting effect on a small but growing international business
• Work in an open environment with a team that respects your ideas and contributions
• Occasional opportunities to travel in North America and Europe

Our HR Privacy Notice is available at the following link: https://verasafe.com/legal/human-resources-privacy-policy/