Corporate Paralegal

What You'll Do:
You will further develop our privacy governance that aligns with domestic and international regulations. The manager will conduct regular privacy risk assessments and manage privacy impact assessments across the company. Main responsibilities include the delivery of training programs aimed at promoting a strong culture of data protection awareness amongst employees. By advocating for privacy by design principles and practices, the Privacy Compliance Manager will ensure Avalara upholds the highest standards of data protection to improve our compliance posture and build trust with partners.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

- Conduct privacy compliance activities, including working with data owners and stewards on creating privacy impact assessments, records of processing activities, data protection impact assessments, and privacy gap analyses
- Identify gaps in internal privacy compliance and documentation; report on related metrics
- As an important member of Avalara's Global Privacy Office, facilitate and manage process tracking
- Help implement Privacy by Design principals into product development
- Champion privacy awareness across the company through developing training on privacy policies, procedures and global regulations
- Keep up to date with new technologies and regulatory changes, advising the Privacy Office and senior management on privacy trends and compliance strategies
- Support projects to address global privacy obligations across multiple teams
- Manage privacy related inquiries from all partners
- Track, investigate, and help respond to privacy/security incidents

What You'll Need to be Successful:

- You have 5+ years experience managing privacy programs
- You have a completed Bachelor's degree
- You enjoy using your knowledge of GDPR, CCPA and other privacy regulations
- You have some experience with BigID, OneTrust and ServiceNow.
- You are experienced in translating legal or contractual requirements to technical controls
- You have some professional experience participating in audits such as SOC and ISO
- You are certified in CISSP or CIPP

How We'll Take Care of You:
Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know About Avalara:
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business_._ Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

**We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer