Principal Counsel, Data & Privacy

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Posted 3 Days Agojob requisition :
B021366
** The Foundation
** We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
** The Team**"Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal division’s approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting pursuit of the foundation’s mission and implementation of the foundation's programmatic and operational strategies. The Legal team delivers comprehensive legal services by providing efficient and reliable legal guidance, managing legal risk, and supporting the development of solutions to achieve the mission of the foundation and its affiliated entities.
The Legal team partners with our colleagues across the foundation and its affiliated entities to enable mission-driven work by maintaining an efficient, well-run global organization where employees can thrive and make their best contributions. Doing this well requires effective collaboration, strong alignment, and thoughtful planning across both operational and programmatic teams – as well as shared accountability for mitigating risk and optimizing the foundation’s operational resources.
** Your Role
** We are seeking a seasoned privacy attorney to support our enterprise data privacy program and provide legal guidance across the foundation and its subsidiaries (currently, Gates Medical Research Institute, Gates Philanthropic Partners, and Gates Agricultural Innovations) on processes, transactions, and initiatives relating to personal data, data access and sharing, information management, and data governance. This position supports teams as they develop and implement strategies and technologies to achieve operational effectiveness and enable charitable impact.
** What You’ll Do
*** Support a global data privacy program, including global compliance, policy and guidance, notice and legal bases, data subject requests, agreements, records of processing activities, data impact assessments, and transfer impact assessments.
* Continuously identify and implement process and tooling improvements to enhance data privacy program maturity and efficiency.
* Provide legal guidance regarding a variety of enterprise data privacy issues.
* Provide tactical and strategic legal guidance regarding the processing of personal data, including compliance, data classification, data protection, lifecycle management, and data governance.
* Translate legal requirements into plain language policies, processes, and guidance that are risk-based, practical, and scalable.
* Review, draft, and negotiate data-related agreements and terms, and develop related templates, playbooks, guidance, and processes.
* Develop and deliver effective training across all functions, offices, and levels of the foundation and its subsidiaries.
* Collaborate with technical, operational, and programmatic teams to translate privacy principles and responsible AI principles into pragmatic solutions.
* Work with colleagues, outside counsel, and third parties across jurisdictions, cultures, time zones, and collaboration tools.
* Integrate AI/ML tools into daily work to streamline research, drafting, and collaboration.
** Your Experience
*** JD degree and current bar membership in good standing.
* At least 15 years’ legal experience, with a primary focus on data privacy.
* Extensive experience with leading or advising global data privacy…