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Executive Director, Legal, Compliance & Security, AGI

Synopsys Inc · Exton, PA · 1 wk ago
LegalFull-time

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Leading all legal, compliance, and security functions, ensuring aligned, enterprise-wide governance across contracting, national security, and business operations.
  • Owning the full contract lifecycle management process, from intake to negotiation to post-award compliance, strengthening controls and improving contract operations.
  • Structuring deals to preserve commercial terms and pricing while ensuring adherence to federal acquisition regulations (FAR/DFARS), flow-downs, agency supplements, and specialized software clauses.
  • Providing strategic legal and compliance support during proposal and capture phases, including RFP/RFQ/BAA/OTA reviews, organizational conflict of interest (OCI) assessments, risk reviews and contract modifications.
  • Designing and maintaining compliance frameworks that integrate export controls, cybersecurity mandates, data privacy obligations, records management, ethics, and reporting requirements.
  • Overseeing National Industrial Security Program (NISP) compliance in close partnership with the Facility Security Officer (FSO) and Security Operations, ensuring full alignment to NISPOM, DoD, and customer-specific requirements.
  • Leading incident response, internal investigations, and corrective action planning related to compliance, contractual, or security events.
  • Providing executive leadership with clear reporting on legal risk, security posture, regulatory exposure, and compliance program health.
  • Building, mentoring, and leading a high-performing team across legal, compliance and security functions.

The Impact You Will Have:

  • Enable rapid and compliant growth across federal and commercial markets.
  • Protect the company’s intellectual property, technology, and operational integrity through mature legal/compliance frameworks and contract management.
  • Reduce risk exposure through strong contract lifecycle management, policy governance, and proactive compliance controls.
  • Support cross-functional teams with clear guidance on regulatory requirements and best practices.
  • Enhance the organization’s reputation as a secure, trusted, reliable partner for government agencies, prime contractors and commercial enterprises.

What You’ll Need:

  • Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active license in good standing with a U.S. State Bar
  • Active US security clearance
  • Extensive experience with government and commercial contracting for software/SaaS, including FAR/DFARS, agency supplements, software and service-specific requirements.
  • Demonstrated expertise in drafting, interpreting, and negotiating COTS/SaaS agreements, licenses, data rights, SLAs, and DPAs and complex technology agreements.
  • Deep understanding of IP protection, export controls (ITAR/EAR), cybersecurity compliance frameworks, and data privacy laws.
  • Proven ability to support capture/proposal processes (RFP/RFQ/BAA/OTA), conduct OCI assessments, manage risk reviews, and oversee contract modifications.
  • Familiarity with GovCloud architectures, DoD IL environments, FedRAMP requirements, and Zero Trust patterns.
  • Experience partnering with FSO/SecOps on classified programs and NISPOM security and FOCI mitigation compliance requirements.
  • Experience with Proxy Board or higher FOCI mitigations.
  • Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing legal, compliance and security teams.

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