Associate General Counsel

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Management Boston, MA

5 days ago Requisition

Associate General Counsel

The Associate General Counsel will serve as a strategic legal advisor and key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for a rapidly growing global SaaS organization headquartered in the United States.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this role is designed for a business-minded legal leader who can help guide company strategy, identify and mitigate enterprise risk, and support organizational growth across a broad range of legal and regulatory matters.

Location: Cary, NC or Greater Boston, MA Area (onsite)

Experience: 8-10 years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience within a SaaS or technology company.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive leadership team on legal, regulatory, governance, and business risk matters.
• Participate in strategic planning and organizational decision-making as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
• Support international expansion initiatives and global operational strategies.

• Lead the development and execution of the company's global privacy and data protection strategy in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, and other global frameworks.
• Establish governance frameworks surrounding data ownership, retention, usage rights, and cross-border data transfers.
• Embed privacy-by-design principles into products, AI initiatives, and data platforms.
• Oversee data subject rights programs, breach response processes, and regulatory inquiries.

• Advise on the protection, management, and commercialization of intellectual property assets, including software, proprietary technologies, algorithms, data assets, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and patents.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define ownership structures and usage rights for internally developed and third-party intellectual property.
• Provide legal guidance related to artificial intelligence, machine learning models, AI-generated outputs, training data ownership, and data-derived insights.
• Support development of strategies governing data licensing, monetization, reuse, and commercialization opportunities.
• Collaborate with external counsel on intellectual property portfolio management and risk mitigation initiatives.

• Design and oversee enterprise-wide compliance programs across privacy, data governance, AI governance, cybersecurity, employment practices, and digital regulations.
• Translate legal and regulatory obligations into scalable operational policies, procedures, and controls.
• Lead regulatory change management efforts across the business.
• Serve as a key point of contact for regulatory examinations, audits, external reviews, and compliance inquiries.
• Conduct and oversee legal, privacy, data governance, AI, intellectual property, employment, and cybersecurity risk assessments.
• Establish governance structures for emerging technologies, AI systems, data management, and information security programs.
• Lead legal support for incident response efforts involving data breaches, cybersecurity incidents, regulatory investigations, employment matters, or intellectual property disputes.
• Provide regular reporting and recommendations to executive leadership regarding enterprise risk posture and mitigation strategies.

• Support mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, and other corporate transactions.
• Lead legal due diligence activities and assess transactional risks.
• Advise leadership on integration planning, regulatory considerations, intellectual property ownership, privacy implications, and organizational risk associated with acquisitions.
• Partner with Finance and Corporate Development teams to evaluate strategic growth opportunities.

• Provide legal guidance on employment law matters in partnership with Human Resources leadership.
• Support policy development, employee relations matters, workplace investigations, workforce compliance initiatives, and global employment practices.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on specialized employment law matters as needed.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security, Compliance, Finance, Sales, and Operations teams.
• Enable responsible innovation by translating legal requirements into practical business and technology solutions.
• Partner closely with Information Security and IT teams on cybersecurity, governance, and risk management initiatives.
• Support contract template updates and aid in customer negotiation.

• Develop and maintain…