About VeraSafe

VeraSafe is an innovative and successful U.S. headquartered privacy and cybersecurity compliance consulting firm and law firm. Due to rapid growth and increased demand for our international privacy and technology compliance and legal services, VeraSafe is seeking creative, motivated, and collaborative attorneys with healthcare and life science experience to join our data protection and privacy practice. This is a fully remote position and will remain a fully remote position.

Watch / listen to learn more about VeraSafe: Check out our podcast!

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PrivacyInPractice/videos

Spotify: https://bit.ly/4moSMU7 VeraSafe is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work©, with 96% of our employees affirming that we are truly a great place to work. This means we foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment. We are committed to maintaining this standard of meaningful work, work-life balance, and a supportive community.

Check out our excellent benefits, listed at the end of this . VeraSafe frequently hires for attorney and consultant positions on a rolling basis. We are growing rapidly and seek to proactively build a strong talent pool to meet sustained, increasing client demand.

About the Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for an attorney with more than 10 years of experience who wants to join a team working on the cutting edge of privacy and data protection, and who wants to further develop a practice in an in-demand, high-tech area of law. While this role requires professional experience in privacy law, we are prepared to welcome you to our team with a robust and established onboarding and training process. We typically advance people more quickly than your typical law firm, and we do it on an individual basis (no lockstep promotions or compensation).

This is an excellent chance for anyone who wants to join a team working on the cutting edge of privacy and data protection, and who wants to further develop a practice in an in-demand area of law at the intersection of privacy and life science. We are inundated with business from clients in the healthcare, life science, and pharmaceutical spaces who love the way we advise on privacy compliance (hence the need for you!).

Note: There is a 1-3 hour skills assessment associated with the recruitment for this position. We know this is a burden, but we think it’s worth it, and we appreciate you taking the time to complete it. We’ve found it enables us to find the best attorneys,



regardless of their experience, where they went to law school, or where they were trained.

We want smart, kind, creative lawyers, plain and simple, and this assessment is a crucial part of our ability to hire this way. We are not your typical legal job. We use project managers to keep our remote team organized and our projects streamlined and on-track.

We encourage our team members to travel and to make use of our ability to work as digital nomads, whether that means spending a few months abroad or on extended trips to be near family. We collaborate closely (you won’t feel like you’re working in isolation) and we actively encourage sharing of credit for work well done, resources, and advice (and penalize the reverse). We are not biglaw.

We do top-notch work for interesting clients, yet we pride ourselves on our team members being happy, with time and energy for a life outside of work, which we believe makes us better attorneys who don’t burn out.

The bottom line: If you want to learn or go deeper practicing privacy law, if you want to practice in a problem-solving environment focused on giving excellent and yet actionable advice, if you want to work with a global team of friendly, brilliant people, if you want the flexibility to work in a way that makes sense to you, please apply!

Responsibilities Include

Leading client projects with a focus on client satisfaction and engagement, ensuring accurate high-quality work products, and monitoring and managing profitability

Supervising junior attorneys and team members and providing feedback and guidance

Working directly with VeraSafe clients, including leading client engagements

Assessing client information systems for compliance with data protection regulations

Drafting data protection agreements, addenda, and amendments

Advising clients on privacy-related product improvements

Researching legal issues and composing legal opinions/memoranda

Writing privacy law related articles and blog posts

Leading the development of in-house legal templates

Leading the development of internal procedures and methodologies What We Need From You:

Required





10+ years of work experience as a practicing attorney

At least 3-5 years of work experience as a privacy attorney—preferably with significant experience working with the GDPR, the former EU Data Protection Directive, Privacy Shield, or US privacy laws

Privacy certifications of some kind (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPP/US, specialty from law school, etc.)

Experience supervising junior attorneys and the ability to provide direction and feedback in a helpful and positive manner

Experience working closely with clients and successfully managing client relationships

License to practice law in your jurisdiction

Team player, interested in contributing to a growing enterprise

Strong writing and editing skills

Ability to work remotely Preferred:

Experience working in a law firm

15+ years of work experience as a practicing attorney

5+ years of work experience as a privacy attorney

Work experience both in a professional services firm (law firm or consulting firm) and in-house counsel position

Experience, training, or certification in one of the following areas: IT security, DevOps, programming, web development, MIS/CIS, or other technology field Key Competencies:

Detail-oriented and highly organized with a strong work ethic

Tech-savvy and comfortable using a variety of software applications

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong leadership and management capabilities

Ability to manage your own schedule in order to work successfully with international teams and meet aggressive deadlines

Ability to work independently and fully deliver on all commitments What You’ll Gain from Joining our Team:

Fully remote work environment with flexible working arrangements

Collaborative, international team with strong mentorship and knowledge sharing

Professional development opportunities and exposure to privacy and cybersecurity work

Competitive compensation and benefits

Opportunities to travel to participate in team retreats and professional events VeraSafe’s Excellent Benefits Include:

Work from almost anywhere with Wi-Fi

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid holidays

Annual bonuses

Membership in the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and IAPP exam fee reimbursement (CIPP/E)

Flexible working schedule in some roles

Reimbursement for certain personal flight ticket

Company laptop provided Our HR Privacy Notice is available at the following link:

https://verasafe.com/legal/human-resources-privacy-policy/

📌 Senior Privacy Counsel (Full Time, Remote Position) (Alberta)
🏢 VeraSafe
📍 Alberta