Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Commercial and Privacy
About The Position
HackerOne is seeking a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel to lead its global commercial legal function and own its global privacy portfolio. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer and serving on the Legal leadership team, this leader will help shape how Legal enables revenue growth, international expansion, strategic partnerships, and AI-driven product innovation, and will be accountable for measurable enterprise outcomes. This is a scale role with a hands-on core. The successful candidate will personally draft, negotiate, and redline commercial and data protection agreements while building standards, systems, and a team that can scale across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The position is remote for candidates within approximately 50 miles of Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Washington DC, or Boston. Periodic travel is required for leadership meetings, customer engagements, and company events.
Requirements
- J.D. degree, strong academic credentials, and bar membership in good standing.
- At least 15 years of legal experience, including significant in-house senior leadership experience in technology or SaaS.
- Experience leading a major legal function or multiple functions while remaining hands-on in contract drafting and negotiation.
- Track record of developing legal managers and senior leaders and building organizational capability.
- Experience advising an executive leadership team on enterprise-level risk and strategy.
- Extensive experience negotiating complex, cross-border enterprise agreements.
- Deep working knowledge of applicable privacy laws.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building global legal infrastructure in high-growth environments.
- Experience implementing legal technology and AI-enabled workflow tools.
- Experience managing external counsel budgets and vendor risk governance.
Responsibilities
- Shape global commercial legal strategy with the Chief Legal Officer, aligning it with company strategy, growth priorities, risk posture, and international expansion.
- Establish and own enterprise-wide commercial and privacy risk frameworks, escalation paths, and negotiation standards.
- Serve as a senior decision authority on commercial legal risk.
- Personally lead negotiations for complex and strategic transactions, including global enterprise agreements, regulated-industry engagements, channel partnerships, and public-sector opportunities.
- Own the global privacy program and establish its risk framework, serving as a senior decision authority on data protection risks, including cross-border transfers, sub-processor terms, and impact assessments.
- Partner with Security, Engineering, and Product leadership to embed privacy by design into platform and AI capabilities and shape responsible AI governance from a legal and privacy standpoint.
- Advise and align senior leaders across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Product, Security, Procurement, and GTM Operations.
- Surface material commercial and privacy risks to the Chief Legal Officer and Executive Leadership Team, providing options, tradeoffs, and recommendations and influencing company-wide decisions.
- Work with GTM leadership to improve deal velocity and develop scalable approaches to recurring customer requirements.
- Anticipate regulatory and market changes and build enterprise-scale systems that respond without adding friction; deliver measurable outcomes and hold leaders accountable for results.
- Lead and develop a multi-jurisdictional team across commercial, privacy, and procurement legal support; develop legal managers and senior leaders; and set team structure, budget, and headcount.
- Ensure leaders provide consistent legal service with clear intake, service levels, and escalation processes.
- Own Legal's AI adoption strategy and evolve its operating model, including AI-native redesign of contract review, drafting, knowledge management, and workflow automation.
- Challenge legacy processes and drive enterprise-wide simplification.
- Use data to track contract cycle time, negotiation outcomes, risk concentration, privacy review throughput, and workload, and align the Executive Leadership Team on indicators tied to enterprise outcomes.
- Personally draft, negotiate, and redline commercial and data protection agreements.
Benefits
- Health insurance, including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Equity stock options.
- Retirement plans.
- Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO.
- Paid maternity and parental leave.
- Leaves of absence, including caregiver leave and leave under Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act.
- Employee Assistance Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
