**Lead Counsel-EU Data Protection Responsibilities**:
- Collaborate with product and various business teams at all stages of product development to assess data protection compliance and to identify any potential legal risk and provide counseling on risk-mitigation
- Analyse products, policies and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions
- Monitor and respond to developments in data protection and relevant consumer laws (i.e., new laws, regulations, important judgements, regulatory guidance, etc.
)
- Provide full-service support to wider legal team on EU regulatory and litigation matters and liaising with regulators
- Provide policy, legal, product, engineering, and other business teams with legal advice on data protection laws and regulations including for external communication, policy development, and enforcement decisions
**Minimum Qualifications**:
- Lawyer qualified to practice law in at least one European jurisdiction
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant post qualification legal experience, including at a law firm or prior in-house experience (applicable litigation, regulatory or more general product counselling experience will be considered)
- In-depth knowledge of, and experience working on, legal issues in the area of data protection laws and the GDPR, including a solid understanding of the operation of online social media platforms
- Excellent problem-solving, written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
**Preferred Qualifications**:
Experience working directly with European Data Protection Authorities a plus
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in fast-paced environment and provide pragmatic and considered advice under tight deadline
- The working language for this role will be English - knowledge of, or fluency in, other European languages a plus