Director, Legal (In-House)

Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with customers.
• Development of customer-centric solutions to ensure both legal compliance is achieved and internal and external customer needs are satisfied.
• Supporting business operations and providing direction and counsel regarding compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, and staying abreast of laws, legislative developments and developing external trends.

Strategic Planning:

• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges.
• Recommends process, product or service improvements.
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy.
• Makes decisions within functional, business unit, company or industry guidelines.
• Develops innovative new concepts, services, technologies or products to address current and future customer requirements.
• Operates with limited supervision in a complex environment.

Customer Focus:

• Anticipates customer needs to influence the development of innovative solutions.
• Communicates highly complex ideas to multiple organizational levels
• Works effectively across the organization to create broad acceptance for ideas/initiatives

Experience:

• 6+ years' experience prior inhouse counsel experience required.
• Current member of the bar or able to be admitted to the inhouse counsel bar.
• Experience negotiating and drafting a variety of agreements, including customer terms relating to services, data and information technology.
• Labor and employment law experience as well as privacy and data protection experience is a plus.

Knowledge & Skill:

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to successfully build relationships and work with cross-functional teams
• Detail-orientation and ability to balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously under deadline pressure
• Ability to deliver in a demanding and entrepreneurial environment in a timely manner.

Education:

• Juris Doctorate degree (or equivalent) from an ABA accredited law school
• Licensed in good standing to practice law in at least one State

Dynata is the world's largest first-party data and insights platform. With a reach that encompasses 62 million consumers and business professionals globally, and an extensive library of individual profile attributes collected through surveys, Dynata is the cornerstone for precise, trustworthy quality data. The company has built innovative data services and solutions around its robust first-party data offering to bring the voice of the customer to the entire marketing continuum - from strategy, innovation, and branding to advertising, measurement, and optimization. Dynata serves nearly 6,000 market research, media and advertising agencies, publishers, consulting and investment firms and corporate customers in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at www.dynata.com.
At Dynata, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve. Dynata welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. We are committed to an inclusive work culture for all our employees. Accommodations by request can be made for all aspects of the selection process.
Dynata is also an affirmative action employer OE/Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
The salary range for this position in is $130K-$175K/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A discretionary incentive program may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and other benefits, dependent on full-time employment status.