Legal Counsel
Dark Matter Labs
Senior Legal Counsel, Data and Cyber
Monzo Bank
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £100,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Partner with our first line and second line data protection teams on a range of initiatives and data protection related issues.
- Acting as trusted legal advisor to colleagues across the Monzo business to provide pragmatic and scalable legal advice and solutions to complex data related challenges.
- Advise on a range of matters with a heavy focus on marketing, advertising and tracking technologies.
- Provide advice relating to the completion of data protection assessments by our first and second line teams in more specialised areas.
- Delivering training, sharing insights from your work, and helping educate others on key data protection risks
Requirements
- deep experience in all aspects of data protection, having ideally spent time in private practice, and/or in-house at a bank and/or other financial institution or regulator, or a leading big tech company
- minimum of 5 years of relevant post qualification experience (or equivalent)
- genuine interest in data and cyber developments
- good experience working with the use of data for advertising and marketing purposes, including the use of the latest tracking technologies
- good experience of financial regulation as it intersects with data protection laws
- comfort with advising on the interplay between these regimes
- some experience in AI, particularly key legal issues related to the use of generative artificial intelligence
- experience in the transactional elements of data protection, including negotiating data sharing agreements, data processing agreements, and standard contractual clauses
- strategic thinker, a strong communicator and a keen problem solver
Benefits
- c. £100,000 base salary (dependent on experience) ➕ stock options
- flexible working hours
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data protectiondata protection assessmentsadvertising technologiestracking technologiesfinancial regulationdata sharing agreementsdata processing agreementsstandard contractual clausesgenerative artificial intelligencecyber developments
Soft skills
strategic thinkingcommunicationproblem solvingadvisingtrainingeducating
