[Hiring] Data Privacy Counsel @Baringa

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Role Description

Our Data & AI compliance team are looking for an experienced Data Privacy counsel to join them. The Data & AI Compliance team is a strategic enabler of Baringa’s global Digital & AI services. By unifying our product, Data Privacy and Responsible AI legal and compliance programmes, we provide a joined-up approach to legal support and governance that enables innovation while maintaining high standards of integrity, accountability and client trust.

Our vision is to make responsible innovation and delivery the default with an emphasis on efficiency, consistency and speed to value. We partner closely with our Sectors to help Baringa deliver Digital & AI solutions that are not only compliant, but trusted.

• Enable the continuous iteration of key Data Privacy programme components (e.g., DPIA process, TIA process, records of processing, training, policy/standards).
• Provide day-to-day legal advice on global data protection laws such as in relation to international transfers, transparency, lawful basis analyses, cookies/marketing, and data subject rights.
• Work with the wider team to support operational privacy matters including DSAR strategy and escalations, and incident/breach response support (working with stakeholders in other teams).
• Help evolve the Data & AI Compliance team’s service model for queries, triage, prioritisation and tracking, including establishing templates and playbooks.
• Help evolve practical processes, guidances and tooling (checklists, model clauses, FAQs, decision trees) to optimise user experience and throughput.
• Lead and support Data Privacy and Responsible AI aspects of vendor due diligence.
• Support our commercial teams on privacy and AI-related contracting positions and negotiation strategy, including customer questionnaires and assurance materials.
• Track programme metrics and produce leadership-ready reporting.
• Keep abreast of relevant regulatory developments and translate them into practical action for the firm.
• Influence ways of working and build strong relationships across all Sectors in Baringa.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales or Commonwealth or common law country with 4+ years post-qualification experience (but we will consider all relevant equivalent experience).
• Experience advising in a fast-moving environment (preferably in a technology business with a global footprint) with an ability to balance legal risk, and commercial priorities.
• Excellent drafting skills (policies, guidance, contract positions, regulator/customer responses).
• Organised and delivery-focused: comfortable running processes, managing pipelines and using tools to track work.
• Experience providing legal, data protection/privacy and AI governance support to product/tech teams (SaaS, ML/AI, data platforms, analytics, adtech/martech, or similar) an advantage.
• Responsive, pragmatic, curious, collaborative, and tech-fluent with an ability to build relationships, move work forward promptly, and explain complex issues clearly.

Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year, plus an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid working policy with flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: 3 days per year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing Fund: Annual People Fund to support individual wellbeing activities.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme.