Director Legal Counsel, Compliance, Regulatory & Privacy

 

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

 

Job Description: 

Opportunity:

Drive enterprise-wide compliance and risk oversight programs, including reporting and global training.  Partner with leaders in privacy, sustainability, human resources and internal controls to operationalize a comprehensive compliance framework.

Duties:

Compliance:

• Maintain a global program of online training modules (e.g. Code of Conduct, anti-corruption, anti-harassment, insider trading) and assign and track completion of training
• Manage the employee conflict of interest and partner anti-corruption disclosure and approval framework, including outside activities, gifts and entertainment, and related party transactions
• Help develop pragmatic policies and controls to enhance program effectiveness

Enterprise Risk Program:

• Identify, assess, prioritize and monitor key risks and mitigations
• Prepare risk dashboard for the Audit and Risk Management Committee and senior management

Privacy and Data Protection:

• Maintain and further develop frameworks to align with global privacy requirements (e.g. PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA)
• Monitor global privacy legal developments and ensure timely updates to internal processes and external-facing documentation
• Help manage the legal aspects of incident response, breach notification decisions, and post-incident remediation

Sustainability:

• Partner with the Director of Sustainability & Accessibility on the completion of customer and partner questionnaires
• Drive external corporate social responsibility reporting

Minimum Qualifications:

• Law degree and Law Society of Ontario membership
• 8+ years of post-call experience with 3+ years in-house in a compliance function at a public company or large regulated business, working cross-functionally in a complex, multi-jurisdictional environments
• Proven track record of supporting privacy governance programs, including the development and maintenance of privacy policies, standards, and breach readiness playbooks

Preferred Background:

• Prior experience with sustainability reporting
• Prior experience with internal investigations
• Software industry experience

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

 

Compensation Hiring Base Salary Range:

$168,000.00 - $218,000.00

 

Please be advised that the compensation hiring range indicated herein is provided solely as a good-faith estimate of expected base compensation for the position. The actual compensation offered will be determined at the time of hire and is contingent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and results of assessments conducted during the hiring process.

 

Bonus:

The BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay (VIP) program is an organization-wide bonus incentive program which aims to reward full-time eligible employees for their contribution to BlackBerry’s success. VIP payments are made in addition to base salary and factor in company’s performance as a way for employees to share in BlackBerry’s achievements.

 

Benefits:

The BlackBerry Employee Benefits programs offer a wide range of benefits that support your physical, financial and personal well-being. BlackBerry remains committed to offering affordable benefits including coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement, employee share purchase program and paid-time-off to those that meet the eligibility requirements.

 

Disclosure of Position Status:

This is an active opening. We are seeking to fill this position immediately

  

Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence:

We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed and evaluated by our hiring team.