Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy
DeepL
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
Tech Stack
Cyber Security
About the role
- Provide proactive, strategic legal advice to advance DeepL's innovation while managing risk and maintaining compliance with global standards.
- Global Strategic Privacy & Regulatory Guidance: Deliver comprehensive legal advice on regulatory affairs, i.e. digital strategy of the EU, data protection and regulatory requirements applicable to DeepL's AI services.
- Product Partnership: Collaborate directly with Product, Engineering and Commercial teams to embed compliance into cutting-edge AI products and features.
- Regulatory Foresight: Monitor, interpret and advise on new and changing legislation, assessing the potential impact on DeepL and supporting the business in implementing new legal requirements effectively.
- Strategy & Training: Contribute to DeepL's long-term regulatory and data protection strategy, update internal policies, and conduct necessary legal training for internal teams.
Requirements
- You are a fully qualified lawyer within your jurisdiction (e.g. German or UK qualified).
- You have 5+ years of demonstrable experience practicing law with a focus on regulatory compliance and/or data protection and privacy topics, preferably in-house in a tech or scale-up environment.
- Significant experience with other key regulatory domains (e.g., AI regulation, copyright laws, cyber security laws as well as consumer protection laws).
- Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams and translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal business stakeholders from Product, Engineering, Commercial teams.
- You bring business-oriented thinking and have a proactive, solution-oriented way of working and can effectively manage multiple projects in a global, fast-growing company.
- You are willing to work in a highly demanding, fast-changing environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Benefits
- Diverse and internationally distributed team
- Open communication, regular feedback
- Hybrid work, flexible hours
- Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role
- Regular in-person team events
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions
- 30 days of annual leave
- Competitive benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
regulatory compliancedata protectionprivacy lawAI regulationcopyright lawcyber security lawconsumer protection lawlegal trainingstrategic legal advicelegislation monitoring
Soft skills
business-oriented thinkingproactive problem-solvingproject managementcross-functional collaborationcommunication skillssolution-oriented mindsetadaptabilitystrategic thinkinginterpersonal skillstraining delivery
Certifications
qualified lawyerjurisdiction certification