We are hiring a Senior Legal Privacy Counsel, North America to own North America privacy coverage and help scale Dynatrace’s global privacy and AI governance program through operational excellence, pragmatic legal judgment, and business enabling execution.
This is a high‑impact role for a practical, business‑minded lawyer who can translate complex rules into clear, scalable guidance, supporting product, R&D, security, sales, procurement, HR, and operations across North America and Latam. It is for a person who enjoys building: developing mature, durable frameworks at scale, improving workflows and processes, and strengthening governance while enabling a fast‑moving SaaS organization.
Key responsibilities
1. North America privacy leadership
- Serve as primary privacy legal advisor for North America and Latam, partnering closely with North America corporate functions.
- Own FTC compliance posture and advise on privacy risk decisions and operational execution.
- Advise on HIPAA-related privacy requirements where applicable, ensuring appropriate interpretation and application within scoped use cases.
- Help build and scale the program’s operational backbone, contributing to documented playbooks for core workflows, defining meaningful privacy metrics, and establishing a reporting cadence that delivers actionable visibility to leadership.
2. LATAM Support
- Lead LGPD/LATAM privacy support by coordinating outside counsel and translating requirements into pragmatic internal guidance.
3. Adtech & Marketing
- Own and lead the advisory function for adtech and martech issues, including cookie/consent compliance and privacy reviews related to marketing activities.
4. M&A integration support
- Own and lead post-acquisition privacy work, including due diligence support and post-acquisition privacy integration for NA and LATAM-relevant targets.
5. Commercial support and data transfers
- Draft, review and negotiate privacy terms in commercial agreements (e.g., DPAs) in customer, partner/vendor agreements to enable business while managing risk.
- Partner with Procurement to strengthen vendor privacy due diligence, high-risk reviews and transfer impact approaches, where applicable.
6. Regulatory monitoring
- Monitor and interpret regulatory developments and enforcement trends; translate them into clear business requirements and pragmatic execution plans.
- Develop and deliver privacy training and awareness to build durable compliance behaviors across North America.