Senior Legal Counsel, Vonage

Privacy

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Vonage
Mid level
London

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Vonage

Cloud-based communications APIs

Open for applications

Vonage

Cloud-based communications APIs

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationSaaSAPI

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Vonage
Mid level
London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationSaaSAPI

Company mission

To make communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal to help enterprises stay ahead.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of experience working in privacy with in-house experience in a privacy department a plus
  • Expert legal or regulatory skills in privacy and data protection in at least the UK and EU, and excellent understanding of global privacy landscape in technology and online businesses
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems in a complex technology and business environment by creating simple, repeatable and actionable solutions and policy positions

Desirable

  • Excellent communication, presentation, public speaking and people skills
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. Persistence to drive change over time
  • Results oriented, proactive, responsible, pragmatic and ethical person with a passion for privacy and interest in technologies and their societal impact
  • Experience with communication platforms as a service (CPaaS) and APIs a plus
  • CIPP/E certified at a minimum and other CIPP and privacy certifications a plus

What the job involves

  • Our legal team is a business partner, contributing to strategy development, operational planning, people management, financial management and the full range of internal and external alliances and interactions
  • As Vonage grows its business across its core product offerings, we need to ensure that our privacy requirements are up to scale with our ambitions
  • This role will minimize privacy risks across our business by ensuring that the controls are implemented across our products, by providing world class strategic, operational, policy and other privacy support; and by identifying privacy related strategic opportunities in support of our business objectives
  • Roll out of privacy programs and policies across Vonage and related enterprise entities. Ongoing monitoring and reporting of effectiveness of privacy policies and controls
  • Creating Vonage and related enterprise entities privacy requirements and supporting their implementation
  • Building privacy into products and services through proactive privacy impact assessments of new products and services and corporate functions (e.g., Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance)
  • Supporting commercial and CMT teams by providing privacy advice and negotiating relevant data protection agreements with resellers, suppliers, vendors and customers
  • Monitoring, communicating and adjusting to developments in global privacy legal frameworks as well as in relevant industry best practices and standards
  • Identifying strategic opportunities and communicating them to relevant business teams
  • Promoting and maintaining privacy awareness across Vonage and delivering effective, role-based privacy training programs
  • Managing consultants and outside counsel

Salary benchmarks

Our take

According to Vonage, technology should make business communication easier, but it currently makes it more complicated due to the various communication platforms that users need to spend time learning how to use. Moreover, users often realise that the platform is not the right choice for them after wasting a lot of time understanding how to navigate it. Vonage aims to change this by providing enterprises with a flexible cloud communications platform that simplifies business communication.

Vonage offers a unified communications solution that is easy to understand and use every day. The platform integrates communication via voice, messaging, video, and data and gives clients the flexibility to choose from a wide range of tools and integrations or to create new ones using Vonage's APIs.

Following its acquisition by Ericsson - a multinational networking and telecommunications company - Vonage has been focused on expanding its presence in wireless enterprises and broadening its global offerings. Vonage won the 2022 FinTech Award for Outstanding Cloud Communications Solutions in recognition of its growth and continued dedication to the development of new technologies.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Aug 2005

$200m

SERIES E

Aug 2004

$105m

SERIES D

Total funding: $372m

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid annual leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Company pension
  • Life assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Payroll Giving for Charities
  • Train Season Ticket Loan
  • Private Medical
  • Dental & Eye Cover
  • Gym Membership Loan
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Career progression
  • Training
  • Industry conferences
  • Work laptop
  • Secure bicycle storage
  • Breakouts areas include games room, relaxation room, playstation, table tennis and much more
  • Discounts in London attractions through TasteCard Loan and BUPA, the medical provider
  • Social meetups, i.e. yearly Hackathons, Christmas party, etc

Company values

  • Accountability - We do what we say and we own what we do
  • Collaboration - We believe different perspectives bring better outcomes
  • Trust - We recognize and rely on each other’s talents to achieve excellence
  • Excellence - We focus on being the best at what we do

Company HQ

Holmdel, NJ

Leadership

Rory Read

(CEO, not founder)

Member of the Ericsson Leadership Team and Board Member at Booz Allen Hamilton. Previously worked for Dell in a variety of roles, including Chief Operating Executive.


People progressing

Joined as Talent Acquisition Partner (EMEA/APAC), being promoted to Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Global) after 2 years and currently the Senior Global Head of Talent.

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