Assistant General Counsel - Privacy and Technology

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Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

• Hybrid model - up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

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Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Provides legal counsel for privacy, technology, information law, and data governance, leading the legalapproach for these practice areas and providing recommendations to leadership on matters of enterprisesignificance. Holds the organization's designated Privacy Officer role and owns the legal design,standards, and requirements supporting the privacy program and related legal frameworks, with-accountability for their legal adequacy. Provides enterprise-level legal counsel and leadership acrosstechnology and data contracting;

information law and data governance, including artificial intelligence;and cybersecurity incident and breach response, independently making risk-based legal decisions,including approval of legal risk exceptions to contracting standards and directing outside counsel. Come join our growing legal and compliance team!

• Owns the legal design and standards of the third-party risk management framework, including the legal requirements, risk thresholds, and governance standards applicable to significant vendor and third-partyrelationships.
• Structures, drafts, and negotiates the organization's most complex technology, data, and services agreements and establishes contractingstandards; provides legal counsel on high-risk third-party and vendorarrangements, including data processing, security, artificial intelligence (AI),and privacy matters; approves legal risk exceptions when contractual termsdeviate from organizational standards; and leads legal, compliance, and privacy due diligence on significant vendors.
• Serves as the organization's designated Privacy Officer, leading the organization's legal approach to privacy and data protection and owning the privacy program framework's legal design and standards in support of the enterprise privacy program; provides legal counsel on privacy and data protection compliance, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and stateprivacy laws.
• Oversees the legal aspects of privacy operations, including privacystatements, notices, and policies; responses to data subject access requests; and legal guidance to teams on data collection, use, ownership,and licensing, escalating when the business proceeds against privacyrecommendations.
• Owns the legal framework for information law and data…