Legal Counsel, Privacy

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate, collaborative, and motivated privacy and compliance attorney to join our team. You will report to EA's Senior Privacy Counsel. We are flexible as to which EA office you work from, and we will consider fully remote for the right candidate.

The ideal candidate is an effective and practical attorney who can provide counsel and compliance strategies around privacy and data protection. This is a great opportunity for a team-oriented attorney, who is interested in growing a culture of privacy. A successful candidate is keen to tackle complex privacy projects and can achieve success working with multiple various business partners.

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

Role Summary

You will work alongside a team of attorneys, legal professionals, and business partners to develop and execute a global privacy program.
Our legal privacy team supports the game, studio, and central teams in multiple areas, from game development to deployment, marketing/ad-tech to marketplace/commerce tools, as well as the complex back-end services and databases, in-game social and communication tools, and evolving landscape around cross-play and cloud gaming. You will ensure that the privacy-by-design requirements are implemented throughout EA's products and solutions. You will help manage our compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and Player First commitments, while applying leading practices to our privacy programs, including data privacy rights responses, data mapping, certifications, guidance assurance, testing, training, and awareness initiatives.

Role Responsibility Details
• Work with Privacy Team to develop, implement, and update a globally comprehensive privacy program, focused on assessing risks, designing and updating controls, monitoring and evidencing compliance, and evolving the program over time;
• Be the primary point of contact to advise game, studio, or central engineering teams to ensure privacy-by-design is embedded in our products and solutions. This includes support of game development and deployment, marketing/ad-tech, central back-end databases, marketplace/commerce tools, in-game social and communication tools, and cloud gaming.
• Experience in mobile App/game space, on data practices related to adtech, age differentiation, and platform (iOS/Android) compliance, a plus
• Support the on-going development of internal policies and guidance for privacy and data governance practices;
• Provide legal advice and day-to-day support to cross-functional groups responsible for auditor, regulator, and third-party relationships;
• Help with the management and implementation of internal tools and third party certifications to support cookie compliance, PIA/DPIA, and data mapping programs;
• Perform legal research and provide practical advice on emerging global privacy regulations, including providing expertise to the policy and government relations team; and
• Monitor organizational processes, internal controls and perform analysis to measure program effectiveness and compliance; complete appropriate documentation.

General Qualifications
• J.D. and 5+ years' relevant experience;
• Experience with consumer privacy, data practices, and information governance, as well as digital product-to-market in the consumer technology or entertainment industries;
• Technology contracting experience, including Data Processing Agreements;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on diverse matters, successfully lead cross-functional projects, and comfortable finding creative and practical solutions;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, impeccable integrity, good judgment, strong analytical skills, and a keen sense of humor;
• Collaborative by nature and able to build strong partnerships;
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and ability to manage a diverse and complex workload;
• CIPP, CIPP-E, a plus
• Background in computer science or other similarly related technical related field, a plus

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d85mvk-3-15-221-67-42 in your application.