Senior Cybersecurity Counsel: Incident Response & Contracts

Synopsys Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys Inc. is seeking an experienced cybersecurity attorney to lead legal support for incident response, data protection, and contractual cybersecurity commitments at a global scale.

You will partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Engineering to translate technical risk into actionable legal strategy. Ideal candidates have 8–10 years of cybersecurity-focused legal experience, J.D., and U.S.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Eight to ten years of legal experience, with cybersecurity matters comprising a substantial part of your practice.
• Significant experience advising on cybersecurity incident response, forensic investigations, breach-notification analysis, customer notifications, and regulatory reporting.
• Experience interpreting and applying U.S. and international cybersecurity, data-protection, and incident-response requirements.
• Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer and vendor agreements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary legal advisor during actual or suspected cybersecurity incidents, coordinating with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Communications, HR, and business teams.
• Assess legal, regulatory, contractual, and business obligations arising from cybersecurity incidents, including notification obligations to customers, regulators, business partners, senior management, and the Board.
• Advise on the investigation and forensic-response process, including preservation of privilege, engagement of external counsel and forensic vendors, documentation of key decisions, and post-incident remediation.
• Provide legal guidance on U.S. and international cybersecurity laws, breach-notification requirements, regulatory inquiries, and related compliance obligations affecting the company’s systems, data, products, customers, partners, and vendors.
• Draft, review, and negotiate cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer, partner, and vendor agreements.
• Negotiate provisions involving security controls, encryption, data handling, incident reporting and response times, audit rights, security standards, vulnerability management, allocation of responsibilities, and third-party risk.
• Partner with technical and compliance subject-matter experts to convert the company’s security capabilities and risk positions into clear contract language and practical negotiation strategies.
• Support cybersecurity governance and compliance initiatives.
• Provide practical, day-to-day counseling regarding cybersecurity, data protection and governance, enterprise IT operations, and related technology risks.
• Collaborate across Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Engineering, Product Management, Commercial, Procurement, and other functions to enable business progress while managing risk thoughtfully.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Contract negotiation

Legal risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Tools

Security frameworks

Job description

Synopsys Inc. is seeking an experienced cybersecurity attorney to lead legal support for incident response, data protection, and contractual cybersecurity commitments at a global scale.

You will partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Engineering to translate technical risk into actionable legal strategy. Ideal candidates have 8–10 years of cybersecurity-focused legal experience, J.D., and U.S.