Senior Corporate Counsel - Cybersecurity

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Senior Corporate Counsel – Cybersecurity

Accelerate your career by joining Okta, the World’s Identity Provider, as a member of our Cybersecurity & Privacy Legal team. We free everyone to safely use any technology — anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. As Senior Corporate Counsel – Cybersecurity, you will lead the cybersecurity legal team, helping build a scalable global cybersecurity practice. You will apply your experience when providing legal guidance on cybersecurity and privacy issues and drafting and negotiating information security exhibits, data processing addenda and related commercial documents with some of the biggest names across every industry that trust Okta to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure. You will work on cutting-edge projects in a cloud-first, SaaS environment where you can apply your experience providing strong legal support to help Okta deliver world-class products to our thousands of global customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of talented, high-performing cybersecurity legal professionals and serve as a point of escalation to provide cybersecurity legal expertise and guidance to executives, cross functional leaders and other stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Advise, draft and negotiate cybersecurity and privacy terms associated with outbound cloud service Master Subscription Agreements, Information Security Exhibits, Data Processing Addendums and other documentation related to sales transactions, while partnering closely with Okta’s Commercial Legal team.
• Provide day-to-day legal support surrounding cybersecurity and privacy-related contract requests and respond promptly and effectively to legal requests from internal clients with pragmatic and business-oriented guidance.
• Provide advice and guidance to Okta Security, Engineering, Product, executives, and other stakeholders on compliance with applicable security and privacy laws and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, United States’ federal and state regulations, security/privacy by design, frameworks and industry certifications.
• Support the investigation of potential security and privacy incidents, including