Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory

We are seeking an Assistant General Counsel Privacy to join our General Counsels Office. The successful candidate will be a strategic legal advisor who navigates complex regulatory landscapes while enabling business growth and innovation through privacy-by-design principles.

In this opportunity as Assistant General Counsel Privacy you will provide strategic legal counsel and operational leadership across all aspects of global privacy and cybersecurity compliance including:
Strategic Legal Counsel & Program Leadership

• Monitor evolving privacy laws and regulations globally assessing organizational impact and translating legal requirements into business guidance and operational execution
• Serve as subject matter expert on specialized legal issues unique to data privacy and cybersecurity

Assist in the design maintenance and continuous enhancement of the Thomson Reuters Privacy Program including drafting privacy policies and establishing governance frameworks

• Conduct comprehensive privacy risk assessments for products systems and operations providing risk-mitigation counseling
• Advise on privacy-by-design principles review Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and conduct risk assessments for new products services and business initiatives
• Work closely with product teams business lines Information Security Data & Analytics and other internal functions to identify and address privacy risks
• Lead and/or serve as subject matter expert for privacy due diligence and integration activities as part of mergers acquisitions and divestitures
• Assist contracting teams in drafting maintaining and negotiating data protection agreements

Provide legal counsel to cybersecurity teams during privacy incident investigations and breach response ensuring investigations are conducted and documented appropriately to minimize risks protect individual privacy and fulfill legal obligations

• Oversee consumer/data subject rights (DSR) request processes in collaboration with the Privacy Office
• Support relationships with regulatory authorities during investigations or inquiries

Youre a fit for the role of Assistant General Counsel Privacy if you have:
10 years of progressive privacy and data protection legal experience

• International privacy experience particularly with Canadian and U.Experience with incident response and regulatory interactions
• Background in management consulting or law firm advisory services preferred

Exceptional communication skills with ability to translate complex legal terms into business requirements for diverse audiences

• Strategic thinking with ability to provide practical risk-balanced counsel that enables business objectives
• Knowledge of information security principles cybersecurity laws and data processing operations
• Experience advising content-driven AI companies
• Technical background in data architecture or cybersecurity

#Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.
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Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.

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To ensure we can do that we seek talented qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race color sex/gender including pregnancy gender identity and expression national origin religion sexual orientation disability age marital status citizen status veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.