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nCino is seeking an experienced legal professional to serve as Principal Counsel - Privacy, Data, and AI, playing a pivotal role in shaping nCino's privacy compliance, data governance, and AI strategy. This position will serve as Deputy Data Protection Officer (DPO) and provide comprehensive legal counsel across privacy, data, AI, product development, and technology partnerships. The ideal candidate will combine deep privacy and data protection expertise with business acumen to support nCino's continued growth and innovation in the financial technology sector.
Job Overview:
nCino is seeking an experienced legal professional to serve as Principal Counsel - Privacy, Data, and AI, playing a pivotal role in shaping nCino's privacy compliance, data governance, and AI strategy. This position will serve as Deputy Data Protection Officer (DPO) and provide comprehensive legal counsel across privacy, data, AI, product development, and technology partnerships. The ideal candidate will combine deep privacy and data protection expertise with business acumen to support nCino's continued growth and innovation in the financial technology sector.
Essential Functions
- Support the DPO as official Deputy Data Protection Officer in all privacy, data, and AI-related matters including compliance strategies, governance frameworks, and program documentation
- Manage response efforts for regulatory inquiries, investigations, disputes, litigation, data subject rights processes, and incident response protocols
- Conduct M&A due diligence activities focusing on privacy, data, and AI compliance matters
- Provide legal strategy and oversight for nCino's technology partner ecosystem including integration partners, data providers, reseller agreements, and revenue share partnerships
- Develop standardized legal frameworks and template agreements for various partner types while ensuring compliant data flows and monitoring partner compliance
- Partner with Product Development & Engineering leadership on strategic initiatives, product launches, feature releases, and go-to-market strategies
- Lead privacy-by-design initiatives and conduct privacy impact assessments for new products and features while advising on ethical AI deployment
- Draft and approve product terms of service, privacy statements, policies, and user-facing transparency mechanisms (e.g., Gen AI disclosures, data selling, TCPA)
- Collaborate with Information Security on incident response, data breach management (PICLEs), third-party risk programs, and regulatory compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO)
- Draft and negotiate customer Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and data use terms in customer-facing agreements supporting product, data/AI, and partner initiatives
- Provide proactive and reactive legal support to commercial teams on contractual issues related to product, privacy, data use, and security terms
- Build scalable processes and frameworks while partnering across legal, product, engineering, data science, and technology teams to serve as strategic advisor to business stakeholders
Qualifications:
Required: - Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school
- Active membership in good standing with a state bar
- 8+ years of relevant experience in privacy, data protection, and technology law
- Demonstrated expertise in global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and emerging AI
- regulations
- Strong experience with SaaS technology, data governance, and complex commercial contracts
- Proven track record in building and implementing privacy programs in a corporate environment
- Experience managing technology partner relationships and negotiating partner agreements
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex legal concepts
- for business stakeholders
- Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities
- Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
Desired: - CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, AIGP or other privacy certifications
- Experience serving as a DPO or Deputy DPO
- Experience in the financial services industry and understanding of financial regulations
- Deep knowledge of AI governance frameworks and emerging AI regulations
- Previous in-house experience at a high-growth technology company
- Experience with M&A transactions and privacy/data due diligence
- Knowledge of security frameworks and standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- Salesforce platform experience
- Experience managing and mentoring legal professionals
nCino retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as business operations require. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.
The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.
The base salary range for this job is:
$166,000.00 - $214,000.00
nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at recruiting@ncino.com.
Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.