Senior Corporate Counsel - Data Governance

Location Details: United States, Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

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The Data Governance Counsel advises on global privacy, cybersecurity, and AI-related data use issues. This role provides legal guidance on regulatory obligations, drafts DPAs and contractual terms relating to privacy, cybersecurity and AI issues, and supports company data and IT-related initiatives.

The Data Governance Counsel reports to the Chief Privacy Officer and Sr. Director for Data Governance and Operations and directly supports the Privacy and Vendor Risk Management (VRM) teams.

This position balances regulatory compliance, risk management, and business enablement with cross-functional advisory responsibilities.

What you'll get to do...

Legal Guidance

• Provide guidance on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI regulation, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, EU AI Act, NIS2, and other global frameworks.
• Draft, review, and update privacy, cybersecurity, and AI governance policies.
• Negotiate and advise on Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and related privacy, cybersecurity, and AI-related contractual terms.
• Provide legal review and guidance for Privacy and VRM team activities, including PIAs, DPIAs, DSRs, and vendor risk processes.
• Advise GoDaddy legal and business teams on acceptable data use, privacy-by-design, and data governance issues.

Privacy Compliance

• Support privacy compliance activities, including consumer notices and DSR processing.
• Support regulatory engagement, audits, and responses to regulatory inquiries.

Incident Response & Risk Management

• Provide legal analysis of cybersecurity and privacy incidents, coordinating with Information Security, VRM, Communications, and Legal teams.
• Assess notification requirements and manage responses to regulatory authorities.
• Contribute to tabletop exercises, incident playbooks, and compliance readiness reviews.

Your experience should include...

• JD required; licensed to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 8+ years of legal experience with a clear focus on privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection law.
• Experience negotiating complex privacy/data governance contracts, including DPAs and cross-border agreements.
• Experience supporting incident response and regulatory investigations.
• Experience providing privacy-by-design guidance to business team.

You might also have...

• Industry certifications such as IAPP (CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, AIGP), Security+, or CISSP.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com. 

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