Role Description
As Senior Counsel, Cybersecurity and Incident Management, you will lead Dropbox’s incident response program and be responsible for cybersecurity counseling. This fast-paced role includes complying with global data breach notification laws, complying with cybersecurity rules and regulations, engaging with regulators, and advising on a wide range of legal issues that impact all aspects of Dropbox’s business. You will also help coordinate a global program that promotes user trust and facilitates company-wide responses to customer- and employee-impacting events. If you are passionate about security, privacy, and incident response, and thrive in an environment of uncertainty, then this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Investigate and assess security and privacy incidents, analyze legal responsibilities, and drive legal and regulatory responses.
- Lead, and provide legal support to, Dropbox’s incident response program, which deals with a wide range of business issues beyond security and privacy.
- Coordinate a team of on-call business managers that provide 24/7 support to incidents, and manage one incident response attorney.
- Engage and coordinate with leaders and executives throughout the company to respond to business-impacting incidents.
- Provide sophisticated advice to engineers working on security, threat intelligence, and abuse issues.
- Ensure compliance with global cybersecurity laws.
- Promote and foster a culture of trust within and outside of Dropbox.
Requirements
- 5+ years of post-JD legal experience, ideally with experience counseling privacy, security, breach notification, and incident response matters.
- Strong understanding of, and experience with, domestic and global breach notification and cybersecurity laws, including GDPR, HIPAA, US state breach laws, and SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules.
- Familiarity with technology and the ability to interact with highly-technical engineers and security personnel.
- Willingness to support incident response outside of traditional business hours.
- Great people skills and ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams.
- Excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills.
- JD, admitted to a US state bar, distinctive academic record.
Preferred Qualifications
- Basic knowledge of SQL or other query/programming languages is a plus.
- Previous experience at a tech company.
- Previous management experience.
Compensation
US Zone 1
$253,700—$343,300 USD
US Zone 2
$228,400—$309,000 USD
US Zone 3
$203,000—$274,600 USD
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Why Work With Us
Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.
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