Senior Counsel

Key Responsibilities

• Act as primary contact for all privacy queries for the Americas region. Moody’s has legal entities and customers across North and South America.
• Support Moody’s Global Privacy Program, comprised of its external-facing privacy disclosures, regulatory notifications and registrations, customer and vendor contracts, statutory records of processing, data transfer and data impact assessments, and internal-facing policies and procedures, training and awareness, new product review processes, data incident tracking, and comprehensive privacy advice and guidance to Moody’s Corporation and all its wholly-owned affiliates.
• Advise on day-to-day routine business queries, such as disclosing employee data, direct marketing campaigns, contract amendments, data incidents, and new product privacy by design and default reviews. Advise on specific projects, such as impact analyses of new laws, M&A due diligence and integration efforts, regulatory enquiries and litigation.
• Review and advise on emerging data privacy laws in the Americas region.

Qualification & Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school, strong academic credentials, and admission to at least one state bar association.
• At least five years of relevant experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house at a financial services or technology company.
• Expert knowledge of US state and federal privacy, direct marketing and data breach laws. Comfortable supporting a global program and advising on, or coordinating local counsel advice for, non-US North and South American privacy laws.
• Open to fully remote candidates in central and east coast timezone

Benefits

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.