Assistant General Counsel, Data Strategy & Security

Location: New York (Hudson Yards), onsite three days per week; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Salary: $178,690–$293,560 base pay, with potential eligibility for incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance and investment products and is building a high-performance Legal, Compliance, and Government Affairs function focused on colleague, consumer, and community well-being.

What you will do

• Advise business leaders on cybersecurity incidents, breach notification obligations, cyber regulations, and defensible controls.
• Support privacy initiatives involving the collection, use, sharing, and deletion of personal data, including privacy impact assessments and privacy by design.
• Help businesses navigate business-critical issues and counsel first-line professionals pursuing innovative customer-experience opportunities.
• Provide strategic legal and technical guidance across data risk, governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.
• Partner with Law colleagues on regulatory inquiries and civil litigation.
• Help shape Guardian’s governance of artificial intelligence and support business partners across data risk and governance.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree.
• Three to five or more years of relevant professional legal experience in corporate data security or cybersecurity.
• Knowledge of insurance and investment products, platforms, and trends across the industry.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and global privacy laws, cybersecurity regulations including NYDFS Part 500, and emerging AI laws and regulations.
• Demonstrated AI literacy, including use of AI-enabled legal tools such as Harvey for research and drafting, with the ability to critically evaluate and verify AI-generated output against primary sources.
• Strong oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, negotiation, and business skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with self-direction, sound judgment, and a proactive approach to preventing legal exposure.
• Ability to handle a wide range of complex and challenging situations and build relationships that influence and empower leaders.

Nice to have

• New York State bar admission or eligibility to practice under New York’s registered in-house counsel program.
• Experience in life insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
• Proficiency in Westlaw and Harvey, plus general desktop computer competency.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources.
• Opportunities for skill-building, leadership development, philanthropy, community building, and career growth.
• Culture emphasizes interpersonal effectiveness, business savvy, subject-matter expertise, leadership, empathy, inclusion, and well-being.
• Benefits apply to eligible full-time employees.

Hiring process

• Guardian may use AI tools for preliminary applicant sorting and filtering; candidates may opt out by emailing MyHR@glic.com within ten business days of applying with their name and requisition identification number.
• Current Guardian colleagues must apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.