Job Details

What you will do:

Under broad direction from the Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, you will serve as trusted counsel to product and functional teams to ensure that products, services, and business applications comply with global privacy regulations and the Global Privacy Program by providing oversight and expertise on a full range of domestic and international data protection and privacy regulations, compliance operations, training, and privacy incidents. You will provide legal guidance related to privacy by driving JCI's privacy global framework and lead in creating, reporting, and supervising privacy controls, safeguards, and risk assessment frameworks to operationalize JCI's Global Privacy program. In this position, you will entail working with cross-functional partners and governance bodies and enforcing privacy requirements.

How you will do it:

• Serve as one of a team of Global Privacy Office Counsel for implementation of global privacy requirements and best practices

• Support the existing Global Privacy Program, including responsibility for the development, implementation, and periodic review of privacy-related principles, policies, and procedures

• Guide the business on complex privacy and data issues as well as how privacy interacts and impacts emerging technologies (especially artificial intelligence (A.I.) and facial recognition)

• Development and facilitation of privacy training and education programs covering global privacy practices.

• Provide direction on the implementation of administrative, technical, and physical procedures to protect the privacy of personal data.

• Collaborate with product and business teams at all stages of product development to identify any potential privacy risk and provide counseling on risk-mitigation

• Analyze policies and initiatives to provide practical privacy risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions

• Monitor and respond to developments in data protection and privacy (i.e., new laws, regulations, crucial judgments, regulatory mentorship, etc.)

• Provide policy, legal, product, engineering, and other business teams with legal advice on global data protection laws and regulations, including for external communication (including liaising with privacy regulators), policy development, and enforcement decisions

What we look for:

• A forward-looking lawyer with a deep understanding of the businesses they support, demonstrated capability for innovative thinking, challenging the status quo, and leading organizational changes.

• CIPP certification is a must

• J.D. (or foreign equivalent) with a minimum of 10 years of shown experience with at least 6 years of in-house and/or law firm expertise, ideally supporting: complex data privacy matters within B2B and/or B2C environments.

• Credibility to function as a trusted advisor to the business leaders they support.

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in data protection and privacy in a multi-national environment.

• Focused legal drafter/writer and possess a problem-solving, "can do" orientation with a demonstrated ability to simplify complex situations.

• Experience selecting and handling outside counsel is a plus.

• The ability to influence without authority and work within a matrixed legal team are key attributes and to develop and sustain relationships with management at all levels across geographies and customer management skills are required.

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