Assistant General Counsel, Information Governance; Remote
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-02-07
-
IT/Tech
Information Security, Data Security
Location: New York
Crowd Strike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We serve customers across industries and are a mission-driven company that values flexibility, ownership, and innovation. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
Aboutthe Role
Crowd Strike is seeking an Assistant General Counsel, Information Governance based in the United States to support the company’s evolving governance needs across AI, data, and enterprise information systems
. This senior role reports directly to Crowd Strike’s privacy leadership
.
This role is distinct from traditional privacy or litigation-focused legal roles
. The Assistant General Counsel, Information Governance will focus on providing legal advice and practical guidance on information governance, data governance, and AI governance
, supporting both product development and internal enterprise operations in a complex, global SaaS environment.
The role requires deep technical fluency, strong legal judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed organization, partnering closely with Engineering, Data Science, IT, GRC
, and Legal colleagues across the company.
This is a high-impact role for an attorney who can translate emerging legal, regulatory, and governance requirements into scalable practices for a Fortune 500 technology company.
Location Requirement: This role is open to candidates based remotely in the U.S., with a preference for those located on the East Coast and able to collaborate effectively with both U.S. and EU teams.
What You’ll DoServe as Crowd Strike’s legal leader for information governance.
In this role, you will provide practical, risk-based legal advice grounded in a strong understanding of technology, facts, and business context.
- Work directly with Product Legal to assist in providing legal advice to product, engineering, and data science teams on AI governance, including data usage, model development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Advise on legal and regulatory considerations applicable to AI systems, including emerging global AI governance frameworks, accountability mechanisms, and risk management expectations.
- Partner closely with Product Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to ensure consistent, coordinated guidance across AI, data, privacy, and security domains.
- Help teams operationalize legal requirements in a way that supports innovation, scale, and customer trust.
- Advise internal stakeholders on information governance and data governance frameworks, including data classification, retention, access controls, and responsible use of information assets.
- Support IT, GRC, Engineering, and Data teams with practical legal guidance on system design, data flows, and governance controls in a global SaaS environment.
- Identify and assess governance risks associated with enterprise systems and emerging technologies, and help design defensible mitigation strategies.
- Provide guidance on any law enforcement requests and work with Legal to facilitate appropriate responses.
- Draft, review, and maintain information governance, data governance, and AI governance policies, standards, and procedures.
- Ensure governance documentation is clear, operationally usable, and aligned with legal, regulatory, and certification requirements applicable to a large, global technology company.
- Support internal adoption of governance frameworks through collaboration, education, and clear guidance.
- Advise on governance-related aspects of certifications and assurance frameworks relevant to security, privacy, data, data sovereignty, and AI.
- Partner with Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Security, and Privacy teams to ensure governance controls are appropriately designed, documented, and auditable.
- Support internal and external assessments by helping teams accurately articulate governance…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).