Senior Legal Counsel - Product & AI (Part-time)

Foleon; Amsterdam; Híbrido; EUR 22.000 - 28.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

FOLEON B.V. in Amsterdam seeks a Senior Product & AI Counsel to own the legal side of the product and AI proposition.

This is a part-time on-retainer role (~1 day per week) collaborating with Product, Engineering, and leadership to ensure compliance with EU AI Act, cybersecurity laws, GDPR, and digital accessibility rules. You will work with our team to classify AI use cases, set up governance, and ensure privacy by design across features and data, while monitoring regulatory changes relevant to

Formación

• Master’s in Law with 6+ years’ experience in tech or SaaS.
• Hands-on product counsel for software, ideally AI products.
• Deep knowledge of EU AI Act and practical applications.
• Experience with cybersecurity law (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act) and accessibility rules.
• Commercial and corporate law grounding; employment law knowledge.
• GDPR/privacy expertise, CIPP/E is a plus.
• Experience with scale-ups on retainers or fractional basis.
• Fluent English; Dutch is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Act as product counsel: join product syncs, review features before they’re built, and flag legal and compliance questions early.
• Lead compliance for our AI proposition: map obligations under the EU AI Act and set up governance.
• Ensure our platform and customer content meet the European Accessibility Act.
• Advise on GDPR questions tied to new features and data privacy.
• Advise on cybersecurity law (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act) and incident reporting with the security team.
• Track regulatory changes and translate them into practical guidance for the team.

Conocimientos

Independent senior

Regulatory communication

Proactive mindset

Part-time flexible

Educación

Master’s in Law

Descripción del empleo

Amsterdam (hybrid) | Part-time (freelance) 8 hours a week | €2,000 to €2,500 per month

Foleon is a leading content creation platform providing business teams with a fast and scalable way to produce highly-engaging content experiences that bring a new level of intelligence to their customer journeys.

Foleon is based in Amsterdam and New York and serves more than 1,200 global B2B brands. We value people who are bold, ambitious, collaborative, and customer-centric. Even better, the ones who know how to work hard and have fun at the same time. We’re a team of highly driven people, with a great sense of human connection and a clear focus.

Your Mission

As our Senior Product & AI Counsel, you’ll own the legal side of our product and AI proposition, working with us about one day a week on a retainer basis. It’s a new role. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering and leadership to make sure what we build and ship holds up under the EU AI Act, cybersecurity law, digital accessibility rules and GDPR.

Your Job

• Act as our product counsel: join product syncs, review features before they’re built, and flag legal and compliance questions early.

• Lead compliance for our AI proposition: classify our AI use cases, map our obligations as a provider or deployer under the EU AI Act, and set up the documentation, transparency and governance it requires.

• Make sure our platform, and the content our customers publish with it, meets the European Accessibility Act and related standards.

• Build privacy into the product by advising on GDPR questions tied to new features and data.

• Advise on cybersecurity law, including NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act and incident reporting duties, working closely with our security team.

• Track changes in AI, cybersecurity, accessibility and privacy regulation, and turn them into practical guidance for the team.

Your Competencies & Skills

• Senior and independent: you make calls and own them, without someone steering you.

• A practical communicator who explains complex regulation to product teams in plain language, with answers instead of memos full of caveats.

• Proactive and curious: you spot gaps before they become problems and want to understand how the product actually works.

• Comfortable working part-time and flexibly, and available when something urgent comes up.

Your Qualifications

• A Master’s in Law (or equivalent) and 6+ years of experience, ideally a mix of law firm and in-house at a tech or SaaS company.

• Hands‑on experience as product counsel for software, ideally including AI products.

• Deep working knowledge of the EU AI Act and how it applies to AI propositions in practice.

• Experience with cybersecurity law (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act) and digital accessibility rules (European Accessibility Act).

• A solid grounding in commercial and corporate law, with working knowledge of employment law.

• GDPR and privacy expertise is a plus, ideally at DPO level or with a certification such as CIPP/E.

• Experience working with scale‑ups on a retainer or fractional basis is a plus.

• Fluent English. Dutch is a plus.

Note:

All our hiring is done in-house, so we’re not looking for agency support for this role. Thanks for understanding!