Vice President, Deputy CLO - IP & Privacy - 944 at Quantinuum, US Broomfield, CO. A mid-level full time position in the Legal team, listed under business operations.
Quantinuumis seeking an experienced intellectual property, privacy, and data protection leader to join its global Legal team as Vice President, Deputy CLO, Intellectual Property and Privacy in our Broomfield, CO location. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this leader will establish, lead, and scaleQuantinuum’sglobal privacy, data protection, data governance, and intellectual property legal function, including leading and scaling a team of attorneys and legal professionals, serving as a senior advisor on product counseling, hardware, software, open source, patent, trademark, copyright, privacy, and data governance matters.
The role will be an established partner to Legal, Compliance, Security, IT, Engineering, Product, People, Commercial, Procurement, Finance, and executive leadership, withdemonstratedsuccess working closely with technical teams. This role requires meaningful public company experience, deep knowledge of global privacy and data protection regimes, strong intellectual property judgment, practical and decisive legal judgment, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to translate complex legal and regulatory frameworks into plain-English, actionable advice that helps teams make sound decisions quickly. It also requires the ability to build scalable teams, policies, processes, controls, and governance frameworks that supportQuantinuum’scontinued growth as a global, public technology companyoperatingat the forefront of quantum computing.
Quantinuumseeks an outstanding intellectual property, privacy, and data protection leader with broad global exposure, strong legal and regulatory judgment, meaningful public company experience, andsignificant experienceadvisinghigh-growth, multinational technology organizations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the company’s senior privacy advisor on global data protection requirements, including GDPR, UK GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, Singapore PDPA, Japan APPI, and other emerging privacy and data governance frameworks.
- Develop and maintain privacy policies, notices, templates, standard operating procedures, data subject rights processes, data retention practices, cross-border transfer mechanisms, data processing agreements, and privacy governance documentation.
- Advise on privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, AI governance, responsible data use, and emerging technology issues involving quantum computing, software platforms, cloud-based offerings, scientific research, customer deployments, internal AI tools, and quantum-AI hybrid applications.
- Provide strategic product counseling and intellectual property support across hardware, software, open source, patent, trademark, copyright, licensing, commercialization, and research initiatives, working closely with technical teams to identify, protect, and responsibly leverage company innovation.
- Lead or support DPIAs, LIAs, data mapping, vendor privacy and security assessments, privacy due diligence, incident readiness, breach response, regulatory inquiries, and privacy-related investigations.
- Draft, review, and negotiate privacy-focused agreements and provisions, including DPAs, cross-border data transfer terms, vendor privacy and security addenda, SaaS and hosting terms, research data use agreements, customer privacy terms, and data-sharing arrangements.
- Build privacy training, escalation paths, decision frameworks, and practical guidance that enable responsible business execution while maintaining legal and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions.
- Provide pragmatic, plain-English, and actionable legal advice that helps technical, product, commercial, and leadership teams understand legal and regulatory tradeoffs, make timely decisions, and move work forward responsibly.
- Manage privacy outside counsel, consultants, budgets, accruals, and related legal spend with fiscal discipline, accountability, and a focus on clear business outcomes.
Requirements
- Minimum Juris Doctor, LLB, or law degree + admitted to practice and in good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction if practicing as an attorney.
- Minimum 15+ years of legal, intellectual property, privacy, data protection, or related regulatory experience, including significant in-house experience advising technology companies on IP, privacy, product, and data matters.
- Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status.
- Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.
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