Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI and Tech Transactions Associate

Womble Bond Dickinson; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Womble Bond Dickinson seeks a senior data privacy and cybersecurity attorney with deep expertise in U.S. privacy regimes, GLBA, HIPAA, COPPA, and cross-border considerations. The role covers incident response counseling, policy analysis, and governance across AI and data-driven products.

The role requires drafting complex privacy contracts, governance policies, and compliance program design, with preference for knowledge of EU/UK regimes and potential M&A diligence. Export control may apply.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data privacy and cybersecurity governance.
• Experience counseling on technology transactions, IP licensing, and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Draft and review data/privacy contracts including DPAs, terms of use, NDAs, and EULA.
• Provide product counseling on privacy and advertising technology, AI deployment and apps.

Job description

Overview

• The role focuses on data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and technology transactions/IP licensing matters.
• Requires direct and ongoing experience with cybersecurity incident response, including state-specific and federal breach notification requirements, analyzing internal privacy and security policies, and counseling clients on legal implications during and after security incidents.
• Routine experience involves drafting and reviewing a range of IP and data-related contracts, such as service agreements, privacy policies, employee privacy notices, data and AI governance policies and controls, terms of use, non-disclosure agreements, end user license agreements, data protection addenda, and business associate agreements.
• Candidates must possess significant experience and deep knowledge of U.S. sector and state privacy regimes, including state privacy laws, GLBA, HIPAA, and COPPA; working knowledge or familiarity with the EU and UK GDPR and other international regimes is a plus.
• Preferred experience includes product counseling, digital marketing/adtech, AI deployment, chatbots, mobile apps, and M&A diligence and negotiation.
• A mandatory requirement is certification as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) for the United States by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
• This position is subject to export control laws.