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Strategy Counsel, Alphabet Regulatory Response, Investigations and Strategy
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in strategically addressing, minimizing, and avoiding risk in products and how they are built.
- Experience managing projects and partnering with cross-functional teams.
- Admitted to bar where role is located and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g. registered in-house status).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience developing, evaluating, and maintaining programs that ensure products comply with laws, regulations, and external commitments.
- Experience with high risk incident response.
- Experience working with technology companies and ability to understand technical issues.
- Knowledge of the privacy and data security regulatory landscape and how those laws and regulations impact internet services.
- Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to be action-oriented and seek to meet the highest standards of integrity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, time management, analytical, and investigative skills.
About the job
Alphabet’s Regulatory Response, Investigations and Strategy team (ARRIS) addresses high-risk issues that involve regulatory scrutiny, enforcement actions, and other proceedings like shareholder litigation, internal investigations, and data incidents, as well as other emerging risks across Alphabet and globally.
As Strategy Counsel, ARRIS, you’ll address emerging risks pertaining to the way we build our products to serve the needs and maintain the trust of our users, including to protect their data from external threats and ensure their privacy. You will work closely with Google and other Alphabet companies’ Legal, Data Security and Privacy, Public Policy, Office of Compliance and Integrity, Communications, Marketing, Product and Engineering teams to identify, prevent, and proactively solve and adapt to Alphabet’s highest risks.
Responsibilities
- Identify potential or emerging internal and external risk pertaining to the way we build our products to serve the needs and maintain the trust of our users.
- Evaluate those risks to determine which are likely to materialize and to identify strategic ways to mitigate those risks.
- Undertake and strategically manage projects to address risk and increase Alphabet’s resilience to risk, including proactive compliance measures.
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