--- title: 'Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Commercial and Privacy at HackerOne' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-vice-president-deputy-general-counsel-global-commercial-and-privacy-984hg1tfngyj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-30' --- # Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Commercial and Privacy at HackerOne - **Company:** HackerOne - **Location:** Washington, DC - **Compensation:** $300k–$385k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hackerone/4ba3af14-e8c5-451b-b630-34fb6dd70b6c ## Job description HackerOne is a global leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and the only solution provider that pairs the simultaneous trust of the Fortune 500 and the world's largest community of security researchers to secure the AI-native enterprise. The H1 Platform unites agentic AI solutions with security researchers ingenuity to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and remediate exposures across code, cloud, and AI systems. Through solutions such as agentic and human offensive security testing, AI red teaming, code security, validation, and remediation, HackerOne delivers measurable, continuous reduction of cyber risk for enterprises. Industry leaders, including Anthropic, [Crypto.com](http://Crypto.com), General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, Uber, UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Defense, trust HackerOne to safeguard their digital ecosystems. HackerOne was recognized in Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem report for its leadership in AI Security Testing. HackerOne Values HackerOne is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. HackerOne is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability. Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Commercial and Privacy Remote: Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Washington DC, or Boston Position Summary HackerOne is redefining offensive security for the AI era. As organizations accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation, trust has become the ultimate competitive advantage. We combine the world's largest community of security researchers with an AI-powered platform trusted by global enterprises and governments. We are seeking a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel to lead our global commercial legal function and own our global privacy portfolio. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer and serving on the Legal leadership team, you will be accountable, alongside the CLO, for shaping how Legal enables revenue growth, international expansion, strategic partnerships, and AI-driven product innovation, and for the measurable enterprise outcomes that follow. You will influence consequential company-wide decisions and answer for enterprise outcomes rather than transactional productivity. This is a scale role with a hands-on core. You will personally draft, negotiate, and redline the commercial and data protection agreements while building the standards, systems, and team that let the function scale across North America, EMEA, and APAC. At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work philosophy that balances remote flexibility with meaningful in-person connection. This role is remote for candidates within approximately 50 miles of Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Washington DC, or Boston. Periodic travel is required for leadership meetings, customer engagements, and company events. ## What You Will Lead Global Commercial Legal - Be accountable, alongside the CLO, for shaping global commercial legal strategy, aligned to company strategy, growth priorities, risk posture, and international expansion. - Establish and own enterprise-wide commercial and privacy risk frameworks, escalation paths, and negotiation standards that support speed and disciplined decisions. - Serve as a senior decision authority on commercial legal risk. - Personally lead the negotiation of our most complex and strategic transactions, including global enterprise agreements, regulated-industry engagements, channel partnerships, and public-sector opportunities. Global Privacy - Own the global privacy program, establish the privacy risk framework, and serve as senior decision authority on data protection risk, including cross-border transfers, sub-processor terms, and impact assessments. - Partner with Security, Engineering, and Product leadership to embed privacy by design into platform and AI capabilities, shape responsible AI governance from a legal and privacy standpoint Executive Partnership and Risk Governance - Advise and align senior leaders across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Product, Security, Procurement, and GTM Operations. - Surface material commercial and privacy risks to the CLO and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations, and influence consequential company-wide decisions on strategy, risk, and long-term positioning. - Work with GTM leadership to improve deal velocity and build scalable approaches to recurring customer requirements. - Anticipate regulatory and market change and build enterprise-scale systems that respond to it without adding friction (Change Agility), and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes, holding leaders accountable for results that match intent (Own the Outcome). ## Team Leadership and Legal Operations - Lead and develop a multi-jurisdictional team across commercial, privacy, and procurement legal support, Multiply Your Impact by developing legal managers, senior leaders, and organizational capability, and set the structure and resourcing (including budget and headcount) to support long-term growth. - Hold leaders accountable for a consistent service-delivery model with clear intake, service levels, and escalation. - Own the strategy for AI adoption in Legal and lead the evolution of the legal operating model, sequencing AI-Native redesign of contract review, drafting, knowledge management, and workflow automation. - Apply First Principles Problem Solving to legacy processes and drive enterprise-wide simplification, and use Data-Driven Decision Making to track contract cycle time, negotiation outcomes, risk concentration, privacy review throughput, and workload, and align the ELT on indicators that tie Legal's results to measurable enterprise outcomes. ## Minimum Qualifications - J.D. degree; strong academic credentials; bar membership in good standing - 15+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house senior leadership in technology or SaaS. - Experience leading a major legal function or multiple functions, while remaining hands-on in contract drafting and negotiation. - Track record of developing legal managers and senior leaders and building organizational capability. - Experience advising an executive leadership team on enterprise-level risk and strategy. - Extensive experience negotiating complex, cross-border enterprise agreements. - Deep working knowledge of applicable privacy laws. Strongly Preferred Qualifications - Experience building global legal infrastructure in high-growth environments. - Experience implementing legal technology and AI-enabled workflow tools. - Experience managing external counsel budgets and vendor risk governance. Compensation Bands: Tier A: $315,000-$385,000 base salary plus bonus Tier B: $300,000-$346,000 base salary plus bonus #LI-Remote ## #LI-KM1 Job Benefits: - Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance* - Equity stock options - Retirement plans - Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO - Paid maternity and parental leave - Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) - Employee Assistance Program *Eligibility may differ by country We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, India, the U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with [Remote.com](https://remote.com/preemployment-faq) as our Employer of Record (EOR). Visa/work permit sponsorship is not available. Employment at HackerOne is contingent on a background check. HackerOne is an Equal Opportunity Employer in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, pregnancy, disability or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by international, federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all HackerOne employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. HackerOne makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For US based roles only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position. ## About HackerOne ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: HackerOne provides a unified platform that combines AI and human insight to help organizations identify, manage, and remediate security vulnerabilities through bug bounty, pentesting, and vulnerability disclosure programs. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in eight global locations) - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Michiel Prins, Jobert Abma, Alex Rice, Merlijn Boogaard ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity (Vulnerability Management, Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing) - Target customers: B2B serving Global 2000 companies, technology firms, government agencies, and open-source projects across all industries - Mission or purpose statement: To empower the world to build a safer internet by making world-class security accessible to everyone [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company) ## Products & Services - **HackerOne Platform**: A unified SaaS platform that integrates bug bounty programs, vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs), and penetration testing services. It leverages a global community of ethical hackers alongside AI-driven vulnerability detection. - **Bug Bounty Programs**: Organizations pay rewards ("bounties") to ethical hackers for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities. HackerOne manages the triage, validation, and remediation workflow. - **Pentest as a Service (PTaaS)**: On-demand, managed penetration testing delivered by HackerOne's internal security experts, providing continuous testing beyond traditional point-in-time assessments. - **Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP)**: A managed service for setting up a secure channel for external researchers to report security issues, reducing risk from unknown vulnerabilities. - **HackerOne AI**: Proprietary AI tools and models that analyze vulnerability reports, reduce false positives (25% of findings are actionable), and accelerate remediation workflows [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Approximately $2.9 billion (as of July 2025, based on secondary market reports; not officially confirmed) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding - Over $160 million raised from notable venture capital firms. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Valor Equity Partners, EQT Partners, Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Dragoneer Investment Group, and others. Strategic partnerships include the "Internet Bug Bounty" (IBB) for core internet infrastructure [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company). - **Growth Signals**: Over 90% of customers trust HackerOne; 1,300+ companies use the platform; 600,000+ bugs have been discovered; the company reported a 210% increase in vulnerability reports in 2025, and has published millions in AI vulnerability reports [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company). ## Competitive Advantages - **Global Hacker Community**: The world's largest community of elite ethical hackers providing unmatched scale and diversity of testing perspectives. - **Unified Platform + AI**: The only platform that unifies bug bounty, VDP, and PTaaS with proprietary AI, creating a "high signal, low noise" environment (25% of findings are actionable). - **Deep Integration with Customers**: Offers $4M+ ROI per critical vulnerability before a breach occurs, making it a high-value, sticky platform for enterprise security teams. - **Founding Member of IBB**: Unique credibility and access to securing core internet infrastructure and open source projects [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company). ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Powered Security**: Continuing to invest in AI that enhances vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation, while also using AI to generate new attack simulations. - **Expanding Enterprise Adoption**: Growing its customer base among Global 2000 companies with PTaaS and managed services. - **Community Growth and Engagement**: Deepening relationships with ethical hackers through events, training, and increased bounty opportunities. - **Open Source & Infrastructure Security**: Maintaining its leadership role in securing critical internet infrastructure through the IBB and other community initiatives. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees ("Hackeronies") are united by a mission to build a safer internet. The company explicitly seeks candidates who are passionate about this mission [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers). - **Flexible Work Philosophy**: HackerOne embraces a "Flexible Work" model with hubs in eight global locations, emphasizing collaboration and community while providing flexibility to perform at one's best [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers). - **Core Values**: The company operates on three core values: Lead with integrity, Default to disclosure (transparency builds trust), and Execute with excellence [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers). - **Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**: HackerOne is committed to creating an inclusive culture where diverse teams increase creativity, belonging, and performance. They have Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to foster community. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes generous paid time off, parental leave (maternity, paternity, family caregiver), medical coverage, retirement plans, and compensation packages linked to long-term company success [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers). - **Compensation Philosophy**: Pay is based on internal equity and local market data to remain competitive, with a system focused on job duties, experience, location, and tenure [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers). - **Onboarding (HATCH) Program**: New hires join a cohort-based onboarding program that covers culture, product, and tools like "Working Genius" to help employees thrive [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/blog/recruitment-process-what-expect-when-you-apply-hackerone). ## Sources 1. [HackerOne About Us Page](https://www.hackerone.com/company) 2. [HackerOne Careers Page](https://www.hackerone.com/careers) 3. [HackerOne Recruitment Process Blog](https://www.hackerone.com/blog/recruitment-process-what-expect-when-you-apply-hackerone) 4. [HackerOne LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerone) 5. 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