Assistant General Counsel and Privacy Officer
About Panorama:
Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston/San Francisco offices, or a hybrid option.
About the Role:
You will collaborate with our Chief Legal Officer in shaping a high-performing team and defining Panorama’s overall legal strategy, focusing on privacy and data protection issues. You will lead projects that safeguard our clients’ trust in our privacy and security practices and share progressively expanding legal responsibilities as Panorama continues rapid growth.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional projects related to data governance, protection and privacy by design, including program and impact assessments, audits, incident response planning, policy and procedure development and training. One of your initial areas of focus will be to collaborate with company leaders to design and execute a new information privacy program.
- Partner closely with leadership across our company to identify and resolve data privacy and other legal issues at the outset of new product lines, projects and business initiatives.
- Collaborate with the communications, government relations and technology teams in responding to inquiries and requests relating to the company’s information practices and data subject access rights.
- Advise on and negotiate data privacy agreements.
- Support strategic business transactions and initiatives, including by conducting privacy and data security due diligence.
- Provide guidance to the company on various legal and business matters based on relevant laws and in consideration of our company values and objectives, including commercial transactions and compliance advice.
Qualifications and Experience:
- JD and membership in good standing with at least one state bar
- 5+ years of legal experience, including at a law firm and/or in-house experience, advising on data privacy matters and aligning a matrixed organization to a consistent privacy strategy
- Substantive knowledge of U.S. privacy laws and regulations, including, CCPA, CPRA, COPPA, and CAN-SPAM
- Experience drafting and negotiating data privacy agreements
- Experience advancing projects in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Ability to explain legal issues to business and technology-focused partners and develop practical solutions
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with a proven ability to solve complex compliance issues and articulate sound reasoning
- Proactive and innovative approach to problem-solving with an ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet deadlines; works well under pressure and is comfortable working with imperfect information
- Conscientious and collaborative
- Growth mindset and intellectual curiosity
Plus Points:
- CIPP (IAPP) or other privacy certification
- Knowledge of student data specific privacy laws, such as FERPA, PPRA, SOPPA in Illinois and SOPIPA in California
- In-house experience scaling business and legal processes and policies for a rapidly growing SaaS company
Panorama excitedly hosts two in-person "all team meetings" a year. All Panoramians are invited to attend and travel/hotels are provided.
Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.
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