Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Commercial and Privacy

The company is a global leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and the only solution provider that pairs the simultaneous trust of the Fortune 500 and the world's largest community of security researchers to secure the AI-native enterprise. The H1 Platform unites agentic AI solutions with security researchers ingenuity to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and remediate exposures across code, cloud, and AI systems. Through solutions such as agentic and human offensive security testing, AI red teaming, code security, validation, and remediation, the company delivers measurable, continuous reduction of cyber risk for enterprises. Industry leaders, including Anthropic, Crypto.com [link for members] General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, Uber, UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Defense, trust the company to safeguard their digital ecosystems. The company was recognized in Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem report for its leadership in AI Security Testing.

The company Values

The company is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. The company is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL, GLOBAL COMMERCIAL AND PRIVACY

REMOTE: SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, AUSTIN, WASHINGTON DC, OR BOSTON

POSITION SUMMARY

The company is redefining offensive security for the AI era. As organizations accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation, trust has become the ultimate competitive advantage. We combine the world's largest community of security researchers with an AI-powered platform trusted by global enterprises and governments.

We are seeking a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel to lead our global commercial legal function and own our global privacy portfolio. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer and serving on the Legal leadership team, you will be accountable, alongside the CLO, for shaping how Legal enables revenue growth, international expansion, strategic partnerships, and AI-driven product innovation, and for the measurable enterprise outcomes that follow. You will influence consequential company-wide decisions and answer for enterprise outcomes rather than transactional productivity.

This is a scale role with a hands-on core. You will personally draft, negotiate, and redline the commercial and data protection agreements while building the standards, systems, and team that let the function scale across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

At the company, we embrace a Flexible Work philosophy that balances remote flexibility with meaningful in-person connection. This role is remote for candidates within approximately 50 miles of Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Washington DC, or Boston. Periodic travel is required for leadership meetings, customer engagements, and company events.

What You Will Lead

Global Commercial Legal

• Be accountable, alongside the CLO, for shaping global commercial legal strategy, aligned to company strategy, growth priorities, risk posture, and international expansion.

• Establish and own enterprise-wide commercial and privacy risk frameworks, escalation paths, and negotiation standards that support speed and disciplined decisions.

• Serve as a senior decision authority on commercial legal risk.

• Personally lead the negotiation of our most complex and strategic transactions, including global enterprise agreements, regulated-industry engagements, channel partnerships, and public-sector opportunities.

Global Privacy

• Own the global privacy program, establish the privacy risk framework, and serve as senior decision authority on data protection risk, including cross-border transfers, sub-processor terms, and impact assessments.

• Partner with Security, Engineering, and Product leadership to embed privacy by design into platform and AI capabilities, shape responsible AI governance from a legal and privacy standpoint

Executive Partnership and Risk Governance

• Advise and align senior leaders across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Product, Security, Procurement, and GTM Operations.

• Surface material commercial and privacy risks to the CLO and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations, and influence consequential company-wide decisions on strategy, risk, and long-term positioning.

• Work with GTM leadership to improve deal velocity and build scalable approaches to recurring customer requirements.

• Anticipate regulatory and market change and build enterprise-scale systems that respond to it without adding friction (Change Agility), and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes, holding leaders accountable for results that match intent (Own the Outcome).

Team Leadership and Legal Operations

• Lead and develop a multi-jurisdictional team across commercial, privacy, and procurement legal support, Multiply Your Impact by developing legal managers, senior leaders, and organizational capability, and set the structure and resourcing (including budget and headcount) to support long-term growth.

• Hold leaders accountable for a consistent service-delivery model with clear intake, service levels, and escalation.

• Own the strategy for AI adoption in Legal and lead the evolution of the legal operating model, sequencing AI-Native redesign of contract review, drafting, knowledge management, and workflow automation.

• Apply First Principles Problem Solving to legacy processes and drive enterprise-wide simplification, and use Data-Driven Decision Making to track contract cycle time, negotiation outcomes, risk concentration, privacy review throughput, and workload, and align the ELT on indicators that tie Legal's results to measurable enterprise outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. degree; strong academic credentials; bar membership in good standing

• 15+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house senior leadership in technology or SaaS.

• Experience leading a major legal function or multiple functions, while remaining hands-on in contract drafting and negotiation.

• Track record of developing legal managers and senior leaders and building organizational capability.

• Experience advising an executive leadership team on enterprise-level risk and strategy.

• Extensive experience negotiating complex, cross-border enterprise agreements.

• Deep working knowledge of applicable privacy laws.

Strongly Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building global legal infrastructure in high-growth environments.

• Experience implementing legal technology and AI-enabled workflow tools.

• Experience managing external counsel budgets and vendor risk governance.

Compensation Bands

Tier A: $315,000-$385,000 base salary plus bonus

Tier B: $300,000-$346,000 base salary plus bonus

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JOB BENEFITS

• Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*

• Equity stock options

• Retirement plans

• Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO

• Paid maternity and parental leave

• Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

• Employee Assistance Program

*Eligibility may differ by country

We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, India, the U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with Remote.com [link for members] as our Employer of Record (EOR).

Visa/work permit sponsorship is not available.

Employment at the company is contingent on a background check.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, pregnancy, disability or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by international, federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all the company employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. The company makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

For US based roles only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position.