Senior Privacy Counsel

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Deep Blue Recruitment

1 - 10 employees

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

Legal • Consulting • Recruitment

Deep Blue Recruitment is a global recruitment agency specializing in placing top-tier legal and compliance experts with in-house teams and law firms. They offer services such as executive search and legal on-demand, connecting businesses with skilled legal professionals to navigate complex transitions and high-stakes projects. With a focus on understanding client needs and company culture, they ensure successful and strategic talent placement.

📋 Description

• Advise colleagues across the business on a broad range of privacy and data protection matters, providing clear, commercially focused legal guidance • Work closely with product, technology and commercial teams on the development of new services, ensuring privacy considerations are addressed early in the process • Support the negotiation of commercial agreements, particularly around data processing, international transfers, customer relationships and third-party arrangements • Advise on GDPR and other applicable international data protection regulations, helping the business understand and manage its obligations across different markets • Provide legal guidance on emerging technologies, including AI, and the implications of new products and data processing activities from a privacy perspective • Review and improve existing privacy policies, internal procedures and governance frameworks • Work alongside information security and IT teams on data governance, risk assessments and privacy-related incidents • Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency of privacy operations, including through automation and better internal processes • Monitor regulatory developments affecting technology businesses, particularly around data protection, AI and digital services • Provide training and guidance to colleagues across the organisation on their responsibilities when handling personal data

🎯 Requirements

• A qualified lawyer with approximately 4-10 years experience specialising in data protection, privacy or technology law, gained in private practice, in-house or a combination of both • Strong knowledge of GDPR and European data protection law, including regulatory guidance and its practical application within commercial organisations • Experience advising technology businesses, ideally with exposure to software, AI, digital products or other data-intensive environments • A good understanding of artificial intelligence technologies and the legal and regulatory challenges associated with their development and use • Experience advising on commercial agreements involving personal data, international transfers and complex data processing arrangements • Comfortable working directly with product, engineering and technical stakeholders, with the ability to understand complex issues and provide clear, practical legal advice • A commercial approach to risk management, recognising that the role of legal is to help the business find workable solutions rather than simply identify problems • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities independently • Experience working within an international business or advising on privacy matters across multiple jurisdictions would be beneficial

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent employment contract (Open-ended contract) • 6-month probation period • 40 hours/week • 28 days of annual leave

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