Senior Legal Counsel - Privacy

at  Vonage

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader that helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable Unified Communications, Contact Center Applications, and Communications APIs.
Our Legal Mission: We support the dynamic nature of Vonage’s business across the full spectrum of our global operations. We provide, manage and coordinate business-focused, high-quality legal counsel and services. Our aim is to minimize legal risks and costs, reduce litigation exposure and ensure compliance with all local laws both in the US and internationally. Our legal team is a business partner, contributing to strategy development, operational planning, people management, financial management and the full range of internal and external alliances and interactions.

• Draft, review, negotiate, and support escalations of privacy-related contracts for customers, partners, and vendors.
• Analyze products and cross-functional business practices to assess privacy risk, conduct privacy impact assessments, and recommend remediations and practical guidelines to implement privacy requirements in technologies, products, and business practices.
• Create and implement privacy program initiatives, privacy requirements, and policies across Vonage.
• Monitor and analyze developments in global privacy laws, frameworks, and guidance and develop and implement requirements in products and business practices.
• Provide guidance and requirements to establish effective program management across key privacy workstreams (including data subject requests, training and awareness, privacy by design, notices and policies, privacy assessments and remediations, incident management, records of processing activities, and data management and governance).
• Engage cross-functionally (with product and engineering teams, marketing, finance, human resources, sales and customer support, and others) to implement privacy program objectives, assess practices and respond to privacy inquiries, and create business-enabling resources