Sr. Cybersecurity Corporate Counsel

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Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You are an experienced cybersecurity attorney who understands that the most effective legal advice sits at the intersection of technology, regulatory requirements, contractual commitments, and business risk. You have developed the judgment to distinguish issues that require immediate escalation from those that can be managed through a practical, risk-based solution.

Cyber incident response is a significant part of your practice. You have advised through fast-moving incidents in which the facts develop over time, coordinated with information security and forensic teams, assessed legal and regulatory notification obligations, and helped business leaders make defensible decisions under pressure.

You are also comfortable negotiating cybersecurity terms in customer and vendor agreements. You can work with technical stakeholders to understand what the company can operationally support and translate that position into clear, commercially workable contract language.

At Synopsys, you will work on important cybersecurity matters at global scale, alongside colleagues who value sound judgment, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.

• Serve as a primary legal advisor during actual or suspected cybersecurity incidents, including coordinating with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Communications, HR, and business teams.
• Assess legal, regulatory, contractual, and business obligations arising from cybersecurity incidents, including notification obligations to customers, regulators, business partners, senior management, and the Board, as appropriate.
• Advise on the investigation and forensic-response process, including preservation of privilege, engagement of external counsel and forensic vendors, documentation of key decisions, and post-incident remediation.
• Provide legal guidance on U.S. and international cybersecurity laws, breach-notification requirements, regulatory inquiries, and related compliance obligations affecting the company’s systems, data, products, customers, partners, and vendors.
• Draft, review, and negotiate cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer, partner, and vendor agreements.
• Negotiate provisions involving security controls, encryption, data handling, incident reporting and response times, audit rights, security standards, vulnerability management, allocation of responsibilities, and third-party risk.
• Partner with technical and compliance subject-matter experts to convert the company’s security capabilities and risk positions into clear contract language and practical negotiation strategies.
• Support cybersecurity governance and compliance initiatives.
• Provide practical, day-to-day counseling regarding cybersecurity, data protection and governance, enterprise IT operations, and related technology risks.
• Collaborate across Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Engineering, Product Management, Commercial, Procurement, and other functions to enable business progress while managing risk thoughtfully.

• Help the company respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents by providing timely, clear, and defensible legal guidance throughout the incident lifecycle.
• Strengthen compliance with cybersecurity and breach-notification requirements across the…