Legal

Job Overview

Come join our amazing team of leaders, learners, and world-class legal professionals accelerating Intuit’s mission of powering prosperity for consumers and small businesses all over the world. Our Data Privacy team works hand in hand with our business partners to develop cutting edge products that use technology to both add value to our customers and uphold Intuit’s Data Stewardship Principles.

We’re seeking a Director, Deputy General Counsel - Product Privacy to serve as a strategist and critical thought-partner to our product development teams across the Company in their day-to-day efforts to create the next generation of financial platforms, tools, and services.  Reporting directly to the Chief Privacy Officer, this lawyer will own Intuit’s strategic data-driven priorities related to driving product innovation while enhancing customer trust and brand equity.

The ideal candidate will have a technology background, true fluency in the legal and practical components of data protection as applied to the product lifecycle gleaned from considerable experience at a major law firm or public company, and a demonstrable history of solving complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.  The selected candidate will be a senior leader on the Data Privacy team within Intuit’s world-class Legal & Compliance Organization, and manage a team of supporting privacy professionals.

We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates produces better results and is critical to our success as a global company. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of experience practicing privacy and data protection law in-house or at a top firm.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant global privacy and data security laws, rules, and regulations, e.g., CCPA as amended by the CPRA; VCDPA; FTC Act/Section 5; GLBA; FCRA; state biometric privacy laws; GDPR; PIPEDA and others.
• The ability to communicate and advance the Data Privacy team’s strategic vision across the company and to external audiences
• Coordinate cross-functionally, and with outside counsel in domestic and international markets, on issues related to data privacy, product design and functionality, transactional issues, and other technology initiatives.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, with a specific focus on privacy issues that arise in a wide variety of commercial transactions.
• Ability to engage in detailed analysis of data-driven products to understand and assess global privacy and other legal risks.
• Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into forward-looking and actionable policies, frameworks and guidelines.
• Commitment to diversity, self-awareness, empathy and intellectual curiosity.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop talent, creating an atmosphere of team trust and support.
• Eligible to practice law where located and to obtain any multi-jurisdictional license required to support in-house practice in California or state where role is ultimately located.
• Engineering or technology background, and experience advising on data analytics is a plus.
• IAPP certification such as CIPP or CIPT is preferred.

 

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES:

• Leading People - The successful candidate will possess a proven track record as an effective leader of geographically dispersed teams and manage with the charisma to lead through change. You will operate effectively within a complex, global and highly matrixed financial institution, with the ability to build collaborative and productive working relationships, consensus and a sphere of influence with business teams and others across all functions. You will be a strategic thinker, proactive and able to anticipate problems and find solutions in a timely manner. He or she must both command respect and demonstrate a willingness to step-up-to-the-plate and give advice and counsel not always welcomed by management, but which is in the best interest of the company.
• Business Mindset - The successful candidate will possess a strong understanding of the business, balancing commercial goals with high ethics and integrity and lead by example. You have the focus, tenacity and experience to drive key strategies and priorities within large and complex organizations, and can work independently when required. You will establish direction and obtain commitment from the groups you advise as well as be adept at influencing beyond your immediate organization. You will be confident in your abilities and subject matter knowledge and will project this confidence to others.

 

OTHER PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Executive presence, communication skills to effectively articulate your vision, and the ability to influence business leaders at Intuit and across the industry.
• Ability to drive problem solving from an abstract, high level as well as from deep in the details.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate and drive innovation at multiple levels.
• Proven ability to quickly gain trust, negotiate business objectives, have constructive debate, and work directly with a broad group of senior leaders, including partnering with peer leaders, and business units.
• Ability to balance principles and data along with judgment, to think strategically - with outstanding business acumen, who hits the sweet-spot of being strategic and "hands-on”.
• Innovate for Impact - Energize the organization to drive continuous improvement and explore and implement creative ideas to significantly improve performance.
• Inspire for Action - Positively affect behavior of others to achieve high performance and personal satisfaction through a sense of purpose and spirit of collaboration.
• Highly motivated, energetic, extremely personable and comfortable working closely with executive management. Thorough and able to handle a wide range of issues varying in complexity.

Responsibilities

This role requires a strategic legal leader with deep subject matter expertise in privacy coupled with a pragmatic approach to operationalizing emerging legal and regulatory requirements. You will provide advice to business leads and technical specialists on a range of data protection issues.  You will also work closely with technical and non-technical teams including Product, Marketing, Engineering and Security to ensure that privacy is embedded into Intuit’s products and processes by design.

 

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is CA $279,487 - $349,776. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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