Privacy Counsel, Data Protection Officer

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About the role

  • Privacy Counsel and DPO overseeing global privacy compliance for a robotics AI data infrastructure company. Managing consent, cross-border transfers, incidents, regulators, and privacy-by-design controls.

Responsibilities

  • Own the privacy programme across every market and capture model
  • Maintain and build the privacy and data protection programme, including records of processing, impact assessments, retention schedules, and operational policies
  • Develop and deliver privacy training for employees, contractors, partners, and other stakeholders
  • Independently advise the company and personnel on data protection requirements
  • Monitor compliance with applicable laws and internal policies
  • Advise on data protection impact assessments and report material privacy risk
  • Serve as point of contact for data subjects and supervisory authorities and cooperate with regulators
  • Own consent and transparency frameworks, approved consent forms, privacy notices, disclosures, and related records
  • Implement and monitor cross-border transfer mechanisms
  • Manage regulator registrations, local data protection representative appointments, and local filings
  • Partner with engineering, product, security, and quality teams on redaction, encryption, access controls, data minimization, and deletion
  • Review new capture models, datasets, and customer deliveries before launch
  • Advise operations teams on privacy conditions required before a market opens
  • Lead responses to data incidents, data subject requests, complaints, and regulator inquiries
  • Assess notification and remediation obligations
  • Manage outside privacy counsel against clear scopes and budgets

Requirements

  • Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction
  • 5 to 8+ years of privacy and data protection practice
  • Experience at a top tier law firm and in-house at a high-growth technology, marketplace, AI, or data company
  • Ability to perform the DPO function independently and objectively
  • Ability to communicate directly with senior management and regulators
  • Hands-on experience advising on data protection regimes in several countries at once
  • Experience with consent, cross-border transfers, data protection impact assessments, data breach response, and regulator registration
  • Experience managing outside counsel across multiple countries
  • Ability to translate complex privacy requirements into practical controls for engineering, operations, and delivery teams
  • Privacy certification such as CIPP/E, CIPP/A, or CIPM is advantageous
  • Experience with video, image, biometric, or location data, or datasets collected or processed for machine learning training is advantageous
  • In-house experience at a marketplace, delivery, AI, data, or gig platform operating across emerging markets is advantageous
  • SOC 2 compliance or audit-readiness initiatives is an asset
  • Experience communicating with data protection authorities, responding to regulatory inquiries, and managing multi-jurisdictional personal data incidents is advantageous

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Other company programs
  • Inclusive work environment
  • Recruitment accommodations

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$150,000 - $180,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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