Senior Corporate Counsel, Product and Privacy

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product and Privacy to the Legal team.

Why join Sprout’s Legal team? 

Our Legal team is growing just as quickly as Sprout—and you will too, with varying opportunities to sharpen your craft as the business scales. You’ll have the ability to provide input and ideas to help us solve hard problems, and see the tangible results of your work. As a team, we’re committed to excellence and take our work seriously, but we try not to take ourselves too seriously. Collaborative in nature, we show up each day ready to support each other’s growth and development—and have a lot of fun doing it. 

What You’ll Do

• Drive impact and efficiency in product and privacy-related legal review processes by identifying areas for streamlining and serving as a privacy subject matter expert to the Legal team for contract negotiations, partnership agreements, employment matters, product compliance, and incident response.
• Run complex privacy negotiations with enterprise customers and provide strategic advice to Sales and Legal leadership on key deals.
• Create and maintain internal and external Privacy resources, playbooks, data maps, incident response policies, and trainings for Sprout.
• Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk.
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, such as Marketing, Governance Risk and Compliance, Security, Product,  AI/Data Science teams, DPO and outside counsel.  
• Support Sprout’s privacy program including leading, monitoring, implementing and improving privacy compliance initiatives with minimal guidance.

What You’ll Bring 

Sprout Social is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and collaborative attorney to join our growing Legal team. As Senior Corporate Counsel, Privacy & Product, you will provide product-focused subject matter expertise and strategic guidance, working closely with cross-functional teams including Commercial, Sales, Engineering and Product teams on privacy-forward issues. This role will help develop and manage Sprout Social’s global privacy program by analyzing global privacy laws,  anticipating future requirements, implementing new and refreshed internal trainings, and keeping pace with constantly evolving global privacy regulations. This person will work closely with and report to Sprout Social’s Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Privacy & Product.

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• Member in good standing of the state bar in which they reside
• At least 5 -7 years of experience in privacy law (a mix of in-house and law firm experience preferred)
• A solid understanding of and maintaining subject matter expertise in areas of data privacy and protection laws (including state and federal consumer protection and privacy laws, GDPR, and other global privacy laws) 
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating commercial and data processing agreements with minimal supervision
• Experience advising product teams and working closely with cross-functional teams to build products with a privacy-forward design
• Experience working on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment with strong business judgment, attention to detail and practical counseling skills
• ​​Ability to distill complex legal concepts into easily understandable terms

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
• Experience with global privacy laws, regulations, and industry guidelines, especially those relevant for social media, SaaS companies and emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI
• Experience supporting SaaS commercial teams and familiarity with SaaS, data processing and business associate agreements 
• Practical and pragmatic approach to solving complex legal problems 
• Experience working with technical and security teams
• Certified Information Privacy Professional certification

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program 
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

The base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In addition to base pay, some Sales and Success roles can earn sales incentives. 

Sprout’s compensation ranges are intentionally broad to allow for our team members' growth within their role. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).  Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. We'll do all we can to ensure you're set up for success during our interview process while upholding your privacy, including requests for accommodation. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement. 

When you apply for employment with Sprout Social, we will process your job applicant data, including your employment and education history, transcript, writing samples, and references as necessary to consider your job application for open positions. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., and Crosschq, Inc., cloud services providers located in the United States of America and engaged by Sprout Social to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, by clicking “Submit Application” on this site, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy. California residents have additional rights and should review the Additional Disclosures for California Residents section in our Privacy Policy.

Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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Last updated on Aug 21, 2024