Senior Director, Privacy

We're looking for a talented Senior Director, Privacy to join our dynamic and collaborative legal team at Atlassian! You'll be joining a growing team of privacy professionals helping build a privacy program that puts fundamental rights first, strengthens customer trust, and leads our industry on privacy and social impact.
Like our customers, we use Atlassian products to collaborate asynchronously with global teams. We believe in open work, leading with kindness and empathy, and delivering thought leadership beyond what's required for "minimum legal compliance." It helps to bring a growth mindset, a desire to use and understand our products, intellectual curiosity, and a thirst for innovation!
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

• Oversee a team of attorneys and privacy professionals responsible for managing and updating privacy contracts, such as Data Processing Addendums and Business Associate Agreements. Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for the Commercial Legal team.
• Collaborate with Governance, Risk & Compliance, Product Legal, and Trust (Information Security) teams to ensure our products and services comply with industry standards, certifications, and best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Legal (including Commercial Legal, Public Policy, and Product Legal) to ensure that our customer-facing Privacy contracts, communications, and practices take a "customer first" approach
• Contribute to building data privacy-conscious products that our customers trust and love
• Creatively build upon and drive awareness around privacy and data protection issues, including developing and delivering training to Commercial Legal, Sales, and Customer Support teams
• Engage with the privacy legal community and partner with Privacy Team leadership to understand evolving issues, develop team strategy, and to help Atlassian provide an industry-leading privacy program for our customers and colleagues

More About You

• You have deep domain expertise regarding enterprise SaaS norms and best practices as they relate to legal and privacy matters, including experience in leading complex negotiations with large, enterprise customers and suppliers on DPA, BAA, and security-related contract matters
• You have demonstrated experience successfully leading teams of attorneys and privacy professionals, helping to drive impactful results, and empowering teams to do their best work
• You think creatively beyond the "legal" box to offer solutions, clearly articulating ethical and risk-based recommendations. You have the ability to distill complex legal topics into plain language, so that non-legal stakeholders can quickly understand issues and make informed decisions
• You take initiative to stay abreast of new laws, technologies, and business strategies
• You can effectively navigate a decentralized and complex organization spread across the globe
• You lean into building strong interpersonal relationships which strengthen the connection between legal and partner teams

On Your First Day, We'll Expect You To Have

• Necessary qualifications to practice law in your local jurisdiction
• 10+ years practicing law, ideally with at least 3+ years of in-house experience at an enterprise SaaS company
• 3+ years of direct people management experience (A globally distributed team is a plus)
• CIPP certification
• Passion to understand our customers, products, culture, and business model
• Deep knowledge of applicable privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, etc.)
• Extensive experience working to negotiate complex technology transaction agreements, with an ability to embrace "smart risk" and develop customer-centric solutions
• Strong judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a moral compass that takes your understanding, work product, and client relationships to the next level
• Demonstrated growth mindset and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, and remote-friendly workplace

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: $255,200 - $340,200
Zone B: $229,600 - $306,200
Zone C: $211,800 - $282,400
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.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .