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Delinea is a cloud-native Identity Security Platform that uses AI-powered intelligence to secure human and machine identities across modern enterprises. The company serves large organizations globally and is backed by strategic investment from TPG.
Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the VP Legal, Corporate & Compliance will lead and scale the corporate legal function for this mid-sized, high-growth enterprise SaaS company. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of law, business, and technology, offering the opportunity to build scalable legal programs using technology and AI.
Key responsibilities include:
**Corporate Legal Team Leadership & Business Partnership**
- Hire, develop, and scale a corporate legal team, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture
- Drive corporate governance and processes for U.S. and global legal entities, including policies and record-keeping
- Own and operationalize corporate compliance programs, including governance, ethics & compliance, product compliance, and personnel conduct policies
- Manage labor & employment matters and partner with HR on employment policies, investigations, and risk mitigation
- Oversee IP protection and enforcement, including external counsel relationships for patents, trademarks, and trade secrets
- Serve as a trusted strategic partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, HR, IT, and other stakeholders
- Translate legal and compliance requirements into practical, business-friendly solutions that protect the company while enabling growth
- Develop and deliver training on corporate governance, legal compliance, and risk management
**Process Building, Technology & AI**
- Identify inefficiencies and build, redesign, and automate processes across corporate legal programs using technology and AI
- Develop scalable processes, templates, and self-service resources that empower the business to move faster while staying compliant
- Evaluate and drive legal technology adoption, change management, and training
- Establish KPIs and use data-driven metrics to measure program effectiveness and continuously improve
**Compliance & Risk Management**
- Counsel on and oversee compliance with regulatory requirements, including anti-bribery/FCPA, export compliance, data protection, and records retention
- Design, develop, and scale global compliance policies and processes optimized for growth
- Identify, manage, and mitigate legal and regulatory risks
- Support dispute resolution and litigation management, including legal holds, investigations, and e-discovery
**Requirements**
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school; active member of at least one U.S. state bar
- 12–15+ years of progressive legal experience, including relevant in-house experience at a technology, software, or SaaS company
- Demonstrated experience building, leading, and developing a corporate legal team, managing personnel, and driving successful team execution
- Deep expertise in corporate governance, compliance, labor & employment, and intellectual property
- Proven track record of building, redesigning, and automating legal processes and programs, including implementing legal technology solutions
- Strong working knowledge of data privacy and cybersecurity regulatory frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, and related regimes)
- Experience supporting M&A transactions, corporate filings, and board-level governance activities
- Strategic thinker with ability to evaluate risks and make sound judgments in the face of ambiguity
- Business-friendly and pragmatic problem-solver who reduces risk while enabling growth
- Driven self-starter with strong ownership mentality and track record of independently driving work to completion
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present to executive audiences
- High degree of integrity, ethics, and professionalism
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience at a national law firm prior to going in-house
- Public company and SEC reporting experience
- Experience leading enterprise compliance programs, developing AI governance frameworks, and implementing emerging legal tech tools in enterprise SaaS
- Experience in the cybersecurity, identity security, and/or enterprise SaaS technology sector
- Experience supporting ESG/sustainability programs
- Experience managing outside counsel relationships and budgets efficiently
- Familiarity with privileged access management (PAM) or adjacent identity security concepts
