Corporate Counsel Privacy

Position: Corporate Counsel, Employment & Privacy
## Corporate Counsel, Employment & Privacy Apply locations:
South San Francisco time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R-1588

Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the largest medical challenges of our time. Denali Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies for neurodegenerative diseases through our deep commitment to degeneration biology and principles of translational medicine. Denali is founded on the collaboration of leading scientists, industry experts, and investors who share the vision that scientific discovery energetically applied to translational medicine is the key to delivering effective therapies to patients.

We invite you to consider an opportunity with Denali to help achieve our goal of delivering meaningful therapeutics to patients.

Denali Therapeutics is seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel, Employment & Privacy to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on employment matters and support privacy and data protection matters across the company. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders on employment law, employee relations, investigations, leaves and accommodations, workforce planning, and employment compliance, while also advising on workforce privacy, clinical privacy, commercial privacy, vendor privacy, and privacy-related contracting.
The ideal candidate will bring strong employment law judgment, privacy experience, a collaborative and solutions-oriented style, and the ability to help teams make fair, consistent, and legally sound decisions.
This hybrid role is based in South San Francisco, California, with occasional travel to other Denali sites as needed.
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Job Responsibilities:

****** Employment Counseling & HR Partnership
*** Serve as a primary legal partner to HR, People Operations, HRBPs, and business leaders on employment law, employee relations, and workforce matters.
* Advise on recruiting, hiring, onboarding, job descriptions, performance management, leaves and accommodations, workplace conduct, investigations, and offboarding.
* Provide practical guidance on employee relations matters, supporting workplace investigations and related employee communications.
* Provide employment support for Denali’s manufacturing facility and operational teams.
* Oversee employment-based immigration matters in partnership with HR and outside counsel including work authorization, visa sponsorship, I-9 compliance, employee mobility and immigration-related onboarding matters.
* Draft, review, and update employment-related policies, agreements, templates, and communications, and advise on compliant employment practices across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, contingent workforce management, remote work arrangements, worker classification, and wage and hour compliance.
* Monitor employment law developments and develop and deliver training for HR, managers, and employees on employment law topics, including performance feedback, documentation, leaves and accommodations, workplace conduct, confidentiality, anti-harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
** Privacy & Data Protection Counseling
*** Advise on privacy and data protection matters across Denali, including workforce privacy, clinical privacy, commercial privacy, vendor privacy, and privacy considerations related to business operations.
* Provide legal guidance on the collection, use,sharing, retention, transfer, and protection of personal information across workforce, clinical, commercial and vendor-related activities.
* Support compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws and standards, including U.S. state privacy laws, HIPAA-related considerations, GDPR and other international privacy requirements, clinical trial privacy requirements, health data privacy laws, marketing and communications privacy rules, and data breach notification obligations.
* Advise on privacy considerations related to clinical trials, research activities, patient engagement programs, health and genomic data, data sharing arrangements, and secondary use of data.
* Advise on commercial privacy matters,…