Ford Motor Company

Legal Assistant, Privacy

Ford Motor Company$86K — $166K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of experience in data privacy, compliance, or legal operations.
  • Ability to manage complex cross-functional legal initiatives with timely delivery.
  • Strong communication skills at all organizational levels.
  • Experience in applying legal technology, automation, and AI tools to enhance operations.
  • Quickly learn new tools and possess foundational knowledge of AI and its applications in legal work.
  • Ability to summarize complex legal discussions into concise, actionable documents.
  • Strong legal research skills with an emphasis on distilling findings for business use.

Responsibilities

  • Manage global legal projects with privacy lawyers from start to finish.
  • Lead efficiency and modernization of legal operations using technology and process improvements.
  • Advise on knowledge management to ensure accessible legal resources.
  • Support meetings by preparing agendas and documenting outcomes for strategic initiatives.
  • Conduct research and prepare presentations on privacy and data topics for stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Family building benefits including assistance with adoption and fertility treatments.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for professional development.
  • Strong employee resource groups for community engagement.
  • Generous paid holidays and community service leave options.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

You will help drive privacy excellence through operational support, project management, and leading cross-functional initiatives across Ford's Data & Privacy legal team. The role will assist a team of lawyers helping Ford deliver great products and services, drive best-in-class digital experiences, and champion customer trust.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Manage global legal projects in collaboration with team of privacy lawyers and other professionals from launch to conclusion.
  • Drive strategic efficiency and modernization of data and privacy legal operations by leading technology, automation, artificial intelligence tools, and process improvements that transform how the data and privacy legal team works.
  • Advise on knowledge management, partnering with our team to ensure deliverables and legal resources are consistently stored appropriately in an accessible manner.
  • Support client and team meetings, preparing agendas, PowerPoints, and other content for attorneys, documenting action items or important decisions, and advancing strategic initiatives alongside clients and business partners
  • Conduct research, prepare documents, and deliver presentations for attorneys or other stakeholders on operations, privacy issues, or other data-related topics.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • 7-10 years or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience, including experience in data privacy, artificial intelligence, compliance, or legal operations.
  • Proven ability to lead and manage complex, cross-functional legal and operational initiatives including working with stakeholders to establish milestones and delivering projects in a timely manner.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of an organization.
  • Track record of driving "strategic efficiency." Experience identifying, implementing, and managing legal technology and building structures, systems, and workflows (e.g., workflow automation tools, large language models, or other AI-driven tools) to modernize legal workflows and make teams more efficient.
  • Comfortable learning new tools and technologies quickly, and a fundamental knowledge of AI including the abilities of Large Language Models and other AI tools to support legal work.
  • Ability to synthesize complex legal discussions into actionable meeting minutes, executive summaries, action items, and memos for leaders and business partners.
  • Strong legal research skills (using LexisNexis, Westlaw, or regulatory databases) with the ability to distill findings into concise, business-friendly materials. Exceptional judgment in handling sensitive matters and information while maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards.

Even better, you may have...
  • Advanced proficiency in Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint, and/or OneTrust is a plus.
  • Professional privacy certifications, such as CIPP (Certified Information Privacy Professional) or CIPM (Certified Information Privacy Manager) is a plus.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-AF1

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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