Lead Counsel - Data Licensing & Privacy

present of AI; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ooak Data seeks a lead counsel to guide data licensing and privacy strategy in Paris, integrating legal risk with product design. You will negotiate data rights, ensure GDPR compliance, and counsel product and engineering teams in clear terms.

The role sits at the intersection of law, data governance, and AI development. Ideal candidates bring hands-on data agreements experience and the ability to translate complex rules into practical guidance for product squads and regulators, shaping policies

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience negotiating data agreements
• Strong grasp of GDPR and privacy rules
• Ability to advise product and engineering teams in plain terms
• Judgment to set legal positions rather than just apply them

Responsibilities

• Negotiate data agreements and licensing terms
• Ensure privacy compliance (GDPR) in all data use cases
• Advise product and engineering teams in plain terms
• Shape rules early in product design regarding data use and data provenance

Skills

Data licensing

Privacy / GDPR

Contract negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

A lead counsel role for data licensing and privacy typically asks for deep contract work on data rights, licensing terms and privacy compliance, plus the judgment to set legal positions rather than just apply them. A strong candidate brings hands on experience negotiating data agreements, a working grasp of privacy rules such as GDPR, and the ability to advise product and engineering teams in plain terms. At a company building reinforcement learning environments from real company data, the legal questions around what data can be used and how it is handled sit close to the core product.

How it fits the AI era

AI raises the stakes on data provenance, permitted use and privacy, so this kind of role shifts toward shaping rules early in product design rather than reviewing finished deals. Much of the drafting and routine review can be assisted by tools, which frees time for judgment on risk, negotiation and advising teams. The human core stays in interpreting ambiguous rules, weighing tradeoffs and building trust with partners and regulators.

How it builds AI experience

Working here would build practical AI experience in data licensing for model training, privacy by design and the legal questions that come with training and evaluating agents on real company data. That grounding is hard to get from general legal work and is increasingly sought after. It can be built by studying how training data is sourced and governed, and by getting close to the product and engineering side of data deals.

Worth showing

• Privacy compliance GDPR
• Advising product teams
• Data rights judgment

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About Ooak Data

Ooak Data builds reinforcement learning environments from real company data so AI agents can be trained and evaluated on expert-level tasks, per the company.