Senior Corporate Counsel – Cybersecurity | Okta

Okta Inc

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Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL · New York, NY · Washington, DC Posted 23 days ago $212,000–$292,000 / year

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Join Okta’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Legal team as a Senior Corporate Counsel, leading a high-performing legal team to build and scale global cybersecurity practices. You will draft and negotiate information security agreements with major clients across industries, providing day-to-day legal support on cybersecurity and privacy issues while ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA. With experience in SaaS technology companies, you’ll advise on contract requests, manage vendor agreements, and review marketing content for accuracy. Required skills include 8+ years of relevant law firm or in-house experience, strong communication abilities, and knowledge of global security frameworks such as NIST and ISO. This role offers the chance to work in a fast-paced enterprise software environment, supporting Okta’s mission to deliver secure yet flexible access solutions worldwide.

Skills

GDPR CCPA CPRA HIPAA NIST ISO FedRAMP PCI-DSS SaaS Jira Confluence Zoom Slack Mural Microsoft Office Suite Google Workspace Trello Asana Salesforce Okta GitHub Bitbucket Python Go

What you'll do

Lead cybersecurity legal team to provide expert guidance on complex issues.
Draft and negotiate cybersecurity terms for cloud service agreements and data processing addendums.
Advise internal stakeholders on compliance with global security and privacy regulations.
Develop standards and processes for handling cybersecurity and privacy-related transactions.
Investigate potential incidents, providing guidance on mitigation and resolution strategies.

What we're looking for

8+ years of experience in cybersecurity and privacy legal matters, including at least 2 years focused on transactional work.
Extensive knowledge of global security frameworks like NIST, ISO, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and HIPAA.
Strong ability to draft and negotiate information security exhibits and data processing addendums for cloud service agreements.
Excellent communication skills with the capacity to provide pragmatic legal guidance to cross-functional teams.
Experience working in a fast-paced enterprise software company environment, preferably within SaaS technology.
Proven track record of building and maintaining critical relationships across various internal stakeholders.

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

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