Sr Director Privacy & Data Protection Legal

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive seeks a Senior Director of Privacy & Data Protection to lead global privacy obligations across AI and data assets. The role directs legal strategy, advises executives, mentors the privacy team, and coordinates with engineering, HR, IT, and product security to safeguard personal data.

You will manage internal and external counsel, drive readiness for new laws, assess data licensing opportunities, and shape a cost-effective, risk-based program aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Counsel managers, contributors, business units and executives on privacy matters.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the privacy program.
• Protect personal information using appropriate legal and risk frameworks.
• Advise on privacy risks and opportunities impacting business goals with a risk-based approach.
• Advise executives on value of data assets for licensing or purchase.
• Advise on privacy laws including AI.
• Analyze emerging privacy laws.
• Lead readiness and implementation for new laws.
• Advise on enforcement activities likely to impact the company.
• Support privacy breach investigations, remediations and regulator inquiries.
• Draft and negotiate data use, data licensing, data sharing, M&A and general matters.
• Manage, mentor and train junior legal team members.
• Lead cross-functional legal projects and initiatives.
• Identify strategic opportunities to improve the data protection posture.
• Allocate legal resources cost-effectively for Intuitive.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position: The Senior Director of Privacy & Data Protection will be responsible for identifying and ensuring the company’s obligations under data privacy and data protection laws, including AI, across the globe. The role requires the attorney to both manage and perform direct work on many varied privacy and data protection legal matters, including protecting customer, employee and patient personal data, licensing data assets, advising on data protection terms in contracts, and digital data matters. The attorney will interact daily with engineers, researchers, human resources, IT, product security, marketing and company executives. The attorney will also manage in-house and outside lawyers and supervise their work products to ensure that company is appropriately protecting its data assets, including personal data and its use with AI.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Counsel managers, individual contributors, business units, and executives regarding Privacy & Data Protection matters.
  • Actively seek out and identify opportunities to enhance our privacy program.
  • Work with to ensure that personal information is protected using the appropriate legal and risk frameworks.
  • Identify and advise on privacy and data protection risks and opportunities that impact business goals and priorities employing a risk-based approach.
  • Advise company executives about value of data assets to license or purchase.
• Advise company executives about privacy and data protection laws, including emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence.
  • Analyze new and emerging data privacy and data protection laws.
  • Lead readiness and implementation for new laws.
  • Advise on enforcement activities that will likely impact the company.
• Support privacy and data breach investigations, remediations and regulator inquiries.
• Provide data privacy support in the drafting and negotiation of agreements covering a variety of business needs, including:
  • Research and Data Use agreements.
  • Data licensing agreements.
  • Other data sharing, M&A and general commercial matters.
• Manage, mentor, and train less senior legal team members, including setting constructive goals and providing career development opportunities for direct reports.
• Participate in and lead cross-functional projects and initiatives involving the Legal Team.
• Identify key and strategic opportunities to enhance the effectiveness and quality of the company’s data protection posture.
• Allocate and deploy Legal resources appropriately to advance the interests of Intuitive in a cost-effective and timely manner.