Junior Legal Counsel - Privacy & AI

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a privacy and AI legal professional to deliver practical legal advice across business functions, upholding a customer-centric approach.

You will work with senior colleagues to own privacy queries, drive compliance excellence, and support local teams while fostering a privacy-conscious culture across the business.

Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of data protection laws including GDPR.
• Ability to translate legal standards into business-friendly advice.
• Clear, concise communication to non-legal peers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support on privacy and AI matters using established standards.
• Research data protection law, AI regulation, and precedents to draft notes and recommendations.
• Prepare and quality-check standard legal documents, privacy notices, and templates.

Skills

GDPR

AI governance

Legal advisory

English comms

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Are you passionate about privacy and the future of AI regulation? As part of our Privacy & AI Legal team, you will form part of a center of excellence, delivering practical legal advice across all business functions while upholding our customer‑centric approach.

Working closely with senior colleagues, you will embody our core values—Lead, Deliver, Care—by taking ownership of privacy queries and driving compliance excellence. Through active teamwork to deliver, you will support local teams and foster a collaborative, privacy‑conscious culture across the business.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Deliver and support on assigned privacy and AI matters using established standards and escalation paths.
• Research data protection law, AI regulation, and internal precedents to draft clear legal notes and recommendations.
• Prepare and quality-check standard legal documents, privacy notices, and matter templates to maintain quality and accuracy.
• Aim high and drive excellence when responding promptly to routine stakeholder queries across various business departments.
• Coordinate inputs from cross‑functional teams, external counsel, and legal colleagues to reliably hit project milestones.
• Support stakeholders maintaining the Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) by coordinating with data owners and keeping entries current.
• Support end-to‑end privacy rights governance and collaborate with local teams on managing privacy rights.
• Track emerging legal and regulatory developments to maintain and upgrade internal playbooks and knowledge resources.

What will you bring to the team?

• Foundational knowledge of data protection laws (including GDPR) and a strong interest in AI governance.
• Ability to translate legal standards into business‑friendly advice while developing an understanding of our internal and external partners.
• Sound commitment to stay committed to achieving goals while managing multiple workstreams reliably.
• Passion to aim higher and drive excellence across all operational privacy governance tasks.
• Clear, concise communication skills in English to explain complex legal concepts to non‑legal peers.
• Sound judgment on when to resolve queries independently and when to elevate to senior team members.
• A responsible mindset focused on privacy compliance to protect our users and make a lasting impact.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best‑known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast‑paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer‑first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belongings

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day. {Link global ERG document here}

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