Privacy Lawyer

Lawyers On Demand; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawyers On Demand seeks an experienced Privacy Counsel to join its Product Privacy Legal team. The role supports customer-facing products, identity verification processes, and trust and safety initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.

You will advise on privacy risks, support product development, and ensure compliance with evolving global privacy and AI regulations, partnering with cross-functional teams globally.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years' post-qualification experience in privacy and technology law.
• Strong GDPR and international privacy framework expertise.
• Experience supporting digital products and high-risk processing, esp. identity verification and fraud.
• Experience drafting DPIAs, LIAs, and vendor integrations.
• Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

• Advise on privacy issues in customer onboarding, AI features, and data life cycle.
• Provide guidance on identity verification, fraud prevention, and data sharing.
• Support product teams from concept to launch with privacy-by-design.
• Draft and review privacy compliance docs including DPIAs and LIAs.
• Collaborate with regional and global teams to ensure regulatory alignment.
• Support privacy aspects of vendor agreements and commercial arrangements.
• Monitor privacy, AI, consumer protection and data regulation developments.
• Assist with complex product launches and high-risk processing globally.

Skills

Privacy law

GDPR expertise

Legal drafting

Privacy-by-design

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified lawyer (PQE)

Job description

A leading global technology platform is seeking an experienced Privacy Counsel to join its Product Privacy Legal team. This role supports customer-facing products, identity verification processes, and trust and safety initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.

Working closely with product, engineering, privacy, compliance, and legal teams, you will play a key role in advising on privacy risks, supporting product development, and ensuring compliance with evolving global privacy and AI regulations.

The Role

This is a highly visible position supporting global consumer products and trust engineering initiatives. You will act as a key privacy adviser across a range of customer-facing features and services, partnering with stakeholders across legal, product, engineering, privacy, and regional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on privacy issues relating to customer onboarding journeys, AI-enabled product features, and the wider data lifecycle.


• Provide legal guidance on identity verification, fraud prevention, authentication technologies, and related data-sharing arrangements.


• Support product teams from concept through launch, embedding privacy-by-design principles throughout the development lifecycle.


• Help stakeholders identify practical risk mitigation solutions relating to data minimisation, purpose limitation, transparency, and consent mechanisms.


• Draft and review privacy compliance documentation, including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs).


• Partner with legal, privacy, product, and engineering teams to identify privacy requirements early in the development process.


• Collaborate with regional counsel across multiple jurisdictions to ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements while maintaining alignment with global standards.


• Provide privacy-related support on vendor agreements and other commercial arrangements.


• Monitor developments in privacy, AI, consumer protection, and data regulation, translating legal changes into practical business guidance.


• Support complex product launches, vendor integrations, and other high-risk processing activities globally.

About You

You will be an experienced privacy lawyer with a strong background advising on technology products and complex data processing activities.

Requirements

• 5-10 years' post-qualification experience in privacy, data protection, and technology law.


• Strong expertise in GDPR, international privacy frameworks, and emerging AI regulation.


• Significant experience supporting digital products and high-risk processing activities, particularly within identity verification, authentication, fraud prevention, or related areas.


• Proven experience drafting privacy compliance documentation and delivering complex privacy projects, including DPIAs, major product launches, and vendor integrations.


• Strong understanding of privacy-by-design principles and product development processes.


• Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives while advising senior stakeholders.


• Experience within a multinational technology business or similarly fast-paced environment is highly desirable.


• Excellent judgement, adaptability, and ability to work independently.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across global teams.


• Working Pattern: Full Time


• Start Date: September 2026


• Duration: 6-12 months

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded privacy lawyer to work on cutting-edge technology, data protection, trust and safety, and AI-related matters within a global business environment.