Vice President, Deputy CLO - IP & Privacy - 944

Quantinuum is 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 Broomfield, CO. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this leader will establish, lead, and scale Quantinuum’s global privacy, data protection, data governance, and intellectual property legal function.

About the Role

This role will serve as a senior advisor on product counseling, hardware, software, open-source, patent, trademark, copyright, privacy, and data governance matters. The successful candidate will partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, IT, Engineering, Product, People, Commercial, Procurement, Finance, and executive leadership, demonstrating success working closely with technical teams. The position requires meaningful public company experience, deep knowledge of global privacy and data protection regimes, strong intellectual property judgment, and the ability to translate complex legal and regulatory frameworks into actionable advice.

The role also requires building scalable teams, policies, processes, controls, and governance frameworks to support Quantinuum’s growth as a global, public technology company at the forefront of quantum computing.

Responsibilities

• Establish, lead, and scale Quantinuum’s global privacy, data protection, data governance, and intellectual property legal function, including developing, managing, and scaling a high-performing team of attorneys and legal professionals.
• Set strategy, priorities, policies, processes, playbooks, reporting, training, and operating rhythms aligned with business objectives and public company expectations.
• 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 frameworks.
• Partner cross-functionally with Security, IT, Engineering, Product, Compliance, Commercial, Procurement, People, Finance, and business teams to embed privacy-by-design, data protection, and intellectual property considerations into products, services, and operational processes.
• Develop and maintain privacy policies, notices, templates, standard operating procedures, data subject rights processes, data retention practices, cross-border transfer mechanisms, 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, and research initiatives.
• Provide strategic product counseling and intellectual property support across hardware, software, open-source, patent, trademark, copyright, licensing, commercialization, and research initiatives.
• Lead or support DPIAs, LIAs, data mapping, vendor privacy and security assessments, privacy due diligence, incident readiness, breach response, regulatory inquiries, and 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, and data-sharing arrangements.
• Build privacy training, escalation paths, decision frameworks, and practical guidance to enable responsible business execution while maintaining compliance.
• Provide pragmatic, plain-English, and actionable legal advice to help technical, product, commercial, and leadership teams make timely decisions.
• Manage privacy outside counsel, consultants, budgets, accruals, and related legal spend with fiscal discipline and accountability.

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.
• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status).
• Candidates must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless also a U.S. citizen.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of major privacy and data protection regimes, including GDPR, UK GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, Singapore PDPA, and Japan APPI.
• Experience advising technical and product teams on intellectual property issues related to hardware and software architectures, open-source strategy, patent portfolio development, trade secret protection, trademark and brand protection, and licensing models.
• Demonstrated experience leading, managing, mentoring, and scaling teams of attorneys and legal professionals in a fast-paced, global, highly technical business environment.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity governance, incident response, data security, vendor risk management, data retention, cross-border transfer mechanisms, and privacy-by-design practices.
• Exceptional writing skills and ability to draft clear, practical, and original legal documents, policies, and executive-ready guidance.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex legal and regulatory frameworks in plain-English terms.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, collaborative approach with a commitment to enabling responsible business execution.
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
• In-depth knowledge of intellectual property, global privacy, and data protection law, including experience advising multinational technology, software, AI, cloud, quantum, or hardware companies.
• Public company experience, including advising on privacy-related governance, disclosure-sensitive matters, incident response, and executive-level decision-making.
• Preferred experience building or scaling a privacy, data protection, or data governance function in a newly public or public company environment.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally on privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, AI governance, export control, vendor management, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.