Sr. Cybersecurity Corporate Counsel
Finance, Banking & Legal · Legal Services · Compliance & Regulatory · Intellectual Property
In short
Synopsys is seeking an experienced Sr. Cybersecurity Corporate Counsel to advise on cybersecurity incidents, regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments. This role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, assessing legal obligations, and negotiating security provisions in agreements for a global technology company.
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary legal advisor during cybersecurity incidents, coordinating with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and business teams.
- Assess legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations arising from incidents, including notification requirements.
- Advise on investigation and forensic-response processes, including privilege preservation and vendor engagement.
- Provide legal guidance on U.S. and international cybersecurity laws and breach-notification requirements.
- Draft, review, and negotiate cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in agreements.
- Partner with technical and compliance experts to translate security capabilities into contract language and negotiation strategies.
- Support cybersecurity governance and compliance initiatives.
- Provide day-to-day counseling on cybersecurity, data protection, and technology risks.
- Collaborate across Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Engineering, and other functions.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Eight to ten years of legal experience, with a substantial part focused on cybersecurity matters.
- Significant experience advising on cybersecurity incident response, forensic investigations, and breach-notification analysis.
- Experience interpreting and applying U.S. and international cybersecurity, data-protection, and incident-response requirements.
- Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer and vendor agreements.
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity principles, information security practices, cloud environments, data governance, and security frameworks.
- Ability to independently manage complex, time-sensitive legal matters.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a "U.S. Person" as defined by ITAR (U.S. Citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, Refugee, or other protected individual).
Desired Qualifications
- Experience advising a global technology company, whether in-house or in private practice, is strongly preferred.
- Experience with semiconductor, software, SaaS, cloud, AI, or other technology businesses is a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits.
- Total rewards include monetary and non-monetary offerings.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses.
- Competitive total rewards package.
Skills
CybersecurityInformation SecurityData ProtectionCloudSaaSAI
#legal#cybersecurity#corporate counsel#incident response#contract negotiation
About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
16 hours ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Salary
US$220,000–330,000 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Sunnyvale, United States
Qualification
Bachelor
Applicants
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