Privacy Counsel and Data Protection Officer

What you'll do

• Maintain the privacy programme, including consent standards, records, assessments, policies, training, and cross-border transfer and registration frameworks.
• Independently advise on and monitor data protection compliance; serve as a contact for data subjects and regulators and report material privacy risks.
• Partner with technical and operational teams on privacy controls, review new capture models and deliveries, and lead incident responses and outside counsel management.

What they ask for

• Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
• 5 to 8+ years of privacy and data protection practice, with experience both at a top tier law firm and in-house at a high-growth technology, marketplace, AI, or data company.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the DPO function independently and objectively, including communicating with senior management and regulators.
• Hands-on experience advising on data protection regimes in several countries at once, including consent, cross-border transfers, impact assessments, breach response, regulator registration, and outside counsel management.

Nice to have

• Experience with video, image, biometric, location, or machine-learning training data; or in-house experience at a marketplace, delivery, AI, data, or gig platform operating across emerging markets.
• Privacy certification such as CIPP/E, CIPP/A, or CIPM; SOC 2 compliance or audit-readiness experience; or regulatory engagement experience.

Pay

$150K – $180K (base salary)

Tools

AI, SOC 2

AI focus

Privacy counsel for data capture and processing used to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.