Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Director, Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy to the Legal team.

Why join Sprout’s Legal team? 

Our Legal team is growing just as quickly as Sprout—and you will too, with varying opportunities to sharpen your craft as the business scales. You’ll have the ability to provide input and ideas to help us solve hard problems, and see the tangible results of your work. As a team, we’re committed to excellence and take our work seriously, but we try not to take ourselves too seriously. Collaborative in nature, we show up each day ready to support each other’s growth and development—and have a lot of fun doing it. 

What You’ll Do

• Drive development and execution of Sprout’s legal strategies to address new and evolving global privacy and regulatory requirements. 
• Independently run and manage complex privacy negotiations with enterprise customers and provide strategic advice to Sales and Legal leadership on key deals.
• Drive and own company-wide and high-impact projects involving product and privacy analyses with cross-functional stakeholders across Sprout’s business, GRC, product and other departments.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Security team and serve as the Legal team expert on security incident response. 
• Develop and maintain resources and tools including playbooks, data maps, incident response policies, and trainings for Sprout.
• Communicate complex legal concepts related to privacy and other areas of the law to the business in a clear, concise and effective manner allowing cross-functional collaboration on risk and related mitigation. 
• Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk.
• Support Sprout’s privacy program including leading, monitoring, implementing and improving privacy compliance initiatives with minimal guidance.

What You’ll Bring 

Sprout Social is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and collaborative attorney to join our growing Legal team.

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• Juris Doctorate degree 
• Member in good standing of the state in which you reside 
• 8+ years of experience in privacy law (a mix of in-house and law firm experience preferred)
• 10+ years of legal experience
• In-house experience at a technology company preferred, particularly SaaS
• Extensive experience drafting and negotiating a variety of contracts, including data processing agreements 
• Significant experience with global privacy laws, regulations, and industry guidelines, especially those relevant for social media, SaaS companies and emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI
• Significant experience advising product teams and working closely with cross-functional teams to build products with a privacy-forward design
• Experience working with technical and security teams

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Certified Information Privacy Professional certification
• Ability to work through ambiguity and autonomously in an environment where priorities change constantly based on the needs of the business
• Ability to explain complex legal concepts to internal clients throughout the business, including members of the R&D team 
• Strong business and legal judgment and risk-based assessment skills

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program 
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

The base pay range for this role is $172,000 - 252,000 USD annually. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In addition to base pay, some Sales and Success roles can earn sales incentives. 

Sprout’s compensation ranges are intentionally broad to allow for our team members' growth within their role. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).  Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. We'll do all we can to ensure you're set up for success during our interview process while upholding your privacy, including requests for accommodation. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement. 

When you apply for employment with Sprout Social, we will process your job applicant data, including your employment and education history, transcript, writing samples, and references as necessary to consider your job application for open positions. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., and Crosschq, Inc., cloud services providers located in the United States of America and engaged by Sprout Social to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, by clicking “Submit Application” on this site, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy. California residents have additional rights and should review the Additional Disclosures for California Residents section in our Privacy Policy.

Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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