Assistant General Counsel - Privacy and Technology

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Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

How we support you:

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.

Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make: Provides legal counsel for privacy, technology, information law, and data governance, leading the legal approach for these practice areas and providing recommendations to leadership on matters of enterprise significance. Holds the organization’s designated Privacy Officer role and owns the legal design, standards, and requirements supporting the privacy program and related legal frameworks, with accountability for their legal adequacy. Provides enterprise-level legal counsel and leadership across technology and data contracting; information law and data governance, including artificial intelligence; and cybersecurity incident and breach response, independently making risk-based legal decisions, including approval of legal risk exceptions to contracting standards and directing outside counsel.

Come join our growing legal and compliance team!

A typical day:

• Owns the legal design and standards of the third-party risk management framework, including the legal requirements, risk thresholds, and governance standards applicable to significant vendor and third-party relationships.
• Structures, drafts, and negotiates the organization’s most complex technology, data, and services agreements and establishes contracting standards; provides legal counsel on high-risk third-party and vendor arrangements, including data processing, security, artificial intelligence (AI), and privacy matters; approves legal risk exceptions when contractual terms deviate from organizational standards; and leads legal, compliance, and privacy due diligence on significant vendors.
• Serves as the organization’s designated Privacy Officer, leading the organization’s legal approach to privacy and data protection and owning the privacy program framework’s legal design and standards in support of the enterprise privacy program; provides legal counsel on privacy and data protection compliance, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and state privacy laws.
• Oversees the legal aspects of privacy operations, including privacy statements, notices, and policies; responses to data subject access requests; and legal guidance to teams on data collection, use, ownership, and licensing, escalating when the business proceeds against privacy recommendations.
• Owns the legal framework for information law and data governance, including records and information law, data use and sharing, and the governance of data as an enterprise asset; developing legal posture and recommendations where the law is emerging or unsettled.
• Provides legal counsel on data ownership, licensing and use restrictions; artificial intelligence governance, including AI-driven decisioning, model data, and emerging AI-law obligations; intellectual property rights related to data and model development; electronic signatures and records, including authentication risk, admissibility, and eVaulting; and the legal aspects of artificial intelligence tools and data-…