Provide privacy counsel to teams, ensure compliance with global privacy laws, engage with customers on privacy needs, and collaborate with internal stakeholders.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Privacy attorney to join Atlassian's Privacy team as Senior Privacy Counsel - Go-to-Market (GTM) and Trust in the US (West Coast), working on cutting-edge privacy challenges and customer centric solutions in a global and distributed environment. This role will report to the Lead of the GTM + Trust team.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
What You'll Do
On Your First Day We'll Expect You To Have
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $195,300 - $254,975
Zone B: $176,400 - $230,300
Zone C: $162,900 - $212,675
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Privacy attorney to join Atlassian's Privacy team as Senior Privacy Counsel - Go-to-Market (GTM) and Trust in the US (West Coast), working on cutting-edge privacy challenges and customer centric solutions in a global and distributed environment. This role will report to the Lead of the GTM + Trust team.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
What You'll Do
- GTM and Trust support: Provide expert privacy counsel to GTM and Trust teams throughout the customer lifecycle, including pre-sales content development, compliance with global privacy laws, customer migrations to Cloud and support for strategic and novel privacy negotiations.
- Customer support: Engage directly with customers to address specific privacy needs and expectations.
- Regulatory compliance: Advise on the impact of emerging global privacy laws and regulations, and help prepare practical responses to new requirements.
- Cross-functional engagement: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including other Legal pillars, Sales, Trust, Engineering, Product, Security, People, and IT, to ensure privacy considerations and customer needs are integrated into business initiatives and roadmaps.
On Your First Day We'll Expect You To Have
- 7+ years of privacy (or related) experience, with expertise in all privacy areas including partnering directly with GTM and Trust functions.
- Qualified to practice law in your local jurisdiction.
- Deep understanding of privacy laws, frameworks, and regulated industries (such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA and ISO 27701).
- A smart approach to risk-taking and decision-making that aligns with Atlassian's fast-paced, agile and innovative culture.
- Ability to deliver privacy solutions that anticipate and address the unique privacy needs of customers.
- Simplifier communication skills that translate complex privacy and technical concepts into easily digestible content for customers and internal stakeholders.
- CIPP certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPP/M, CIPP/US) are highly valued but not required.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-changing environment.
- A growth mindset, resilience, and a healthy sense of humor.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $195,300 - $254,975
Zone B: $176,400 - $230,300
Zone C: $162,900 - $212,675
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Top Skills
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Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
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