Product Counsel Data Strategy Legal

Accenture PLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Data Strategy lawyer in Bengaluru to lead risk assessments on data usage and products, advise on governance, and collaborate with global teams. The role includes mentoring junior team members, supporting data-driven initiatives, and developing training materials on data rights in agreements.

The candidate will work with business and technology partners to enable responsible data use across products and services, including GenAI/AI tools, while contributing to

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of legal experience in data usage, data products, governance, or related areas.
• Fluency in English with strong oral and written communications.
• Experience with international teams and cross-cultural collaboration.
• Senior/leadership experience mentoring junior colleagues and coordinating across time zones.
• Ability to work with business teams and technology partners on AI/data initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Perform risk assessments on data usage and data products and provide practical risk analyses and mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate data risks in assets, platforms and offerings.
• Support development and launch of data-driven products and go-to-market initiatives.
• Develop communications, guidance, templates, and trainings on data rights and terms in agreements.
• Lead and mentor junior Data Strategy legal team members across time zones.
• Support data-led acquisitions, joint ventures and special projects as required.
• Support design and implementation of GenAI/AI tools and processes to enhance daily work and collaboration.

Skills

Team management

Mentoring

Strong communication

Cross-cultural experience

Organizational skills

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Perform risk assessments on data usage and data products, including regulatory, industry, contractual, strategic and other considerations, and provide practical legal risk analyses, operational and contractual risk mitigation strategies, to enable responsible and sustainable data usage and data products, for use with internal or client facing technologies or services.

Work with Business teams and legal SMEs to evaluate data risks in assets, platforms and offerings / solutions.

Support development and launch of products that make productive use of data.

Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the data use rights, data products, and data related terms in inbound and outbound agreements, for go to market teams, development teams and the rest of the Legal organization.

Lead and mentor junior Data Strategy legal team members in growing their skills, relationships and careers.

Support data-led acquisitions, joint ventures, and other special projects as required by Data Strategy Legal Lead or Legal Leadership.

Support design and implementation of GenAI/AI tools and processes to enhance daily work, request management, legal risk assessments and collaboration with business and other Legal colleagues.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Minimum of 10 years of experience, in a law firm or as in-house counsel for a global technology company; advising on matters regarding data usage, data products, internal data governance, agentic technology, GenAI/AI models, Saas, Paas, cloud or software.

Passion for supporting business teams in taking innovative technology and services to market; and willingness to grow in new areas.

Fluency in English with strong oral and written communications skills.

Experience of working with international teams in a global business. Open to work with and understand cross-cultures throughout the Accenture global organization

Team management experience, including leading, mentoring and training of junior team members, located across multiple time zones.

Desire to contribute to tech enablement of legal, including exploring the capacity and implementation of legal agents.

Individual achiever that can operate with minimal oversight and direction.

Track record of developing trusted relationships with business leaders.

Ability to adapt quickly to changes in business strategies.

High degree of organization with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.

• Technology transactional experience either in drafting and negotiating technology focused client-facing (i.e. data licensing, software as a service agreements, cloud, software license agreements, or software development agreements).
• Working knowledge of: (a) data privacy regulations; (b) data governance considerations; (c) IP law; and (d) general product development considerations. Understanding connection between in-bound agreements and client-facing agreements.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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