Senior Commercial & Privacy Counsel

Job Description

ABOUT LIVERAMP

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform. We are committed to connecting the world’s data safely and effectively, advancing innovation, and empowering people to do good. Our platform powers customer experiences centered around the needs and concerns of real people, keeping the Internet open for all. We enable individuals around the world to connect with the brands and products they love. LiveRampers thrive on solving challenging problems for the good of humanity—and we’re always looking for smart, kind, and creative people to help us get there.

Mission: LiveRamp makes it safe and easy for businesses to use data effectively.

ABOUT THIS JOB

LiveRamp is seeking an experienced privacy and commercial contract attorney to join the Legal & Data Ethics team based in the EU (ideally Paris - France, London - UK or Amsterdam - Netherlands).

The Commercial & Privacy Counsel will report into the Assistant General Counsel - EU, and work as part of a global team to ensure privacy and data protection compliance in EU and LATAM countries, while enabling business innovation in a fast paced and dynamic environment. This role will also interface with business teams to negotiate and execute on a wide range of commercial and strategic initiatives requiring creative and proactive legal guidance.

In this role, the Commercial & Privacy Counsel will have the opportunity to educate and influence our internal teams, vendors and customers and the overall industry. This is a great opportunity to make a high-impact contribution to a fast-paced organization operating on the cutting-edge of data connectivity and the Ad/MarTech industry.

YOU WILL:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of sales and supply side contracts, including customer (digital advertiser; agency), vendor (data licensing) agreements, with the ability to capture complex legal and business concepts in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand manner. There will be a primary focus on supporting any countries in European and LATAM markets.
• Provide data protection/privacy support as part of the contracting process (e.g. contract redlines, explaining standard product dataflows, negotiating data processing agreements and model clauses).
• Work with internal or external privacy counsel on more complex privacy issues including relating to new products/services/concepts.
• Embed with product and engineering teams to understand LiveRamp’s products and provide business-oriented privacy counseling to design data protection and privacy into our products (including ad tech related products and technologies such as RTB, trackers, connected devices) drawing on knowledge and experience with specific industry requirements and best practices such as EDAA and IAB.
• Collaborate and provide privacy guidance and related risk management advice to all groups across the company, including our Marketing, HR, Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering and Security teams.
• Conduct and manage privacy processes like data collection and use practices, data protection impact assessments and data subject access requests.
• Coordinating work with the U.S. Legal and Data Ethics team to ensure consistent approach and application of legal agreements and risk framework locally/regionally.
• Working with the rest of the legal department to support the Company's general corporate legal activities.
• Monitor and self-study on case law, legislation and other legal guidance relevant to AdTech and MarTech industries.
• Build legal policies and processes from the ground up, and provide consultation, training, and knowledge sharing to colleagues.
• Work closely with other privacy and legal professionals within the company.
• Manage and draft privacy notices and policies.
• Develop and provide training and education supporting the implementation of privacy related policies and processes.
• Interact with DPO (internal or external) and EU data protection authorities as needed.

ABOUT YOU:

• Qualified solicitor likely to be at the 3 to 5 years PQE level with privacy/data protection experience.
• Qualified to practice Law in one or more European, LATAM (including Brazilian or Argentinian) jurisdictions.
• General commercial and privacy/data protection experience ideally gained within both a law firm and in-house, ideally with some international experience.
• Experience with either software, technology or data is essential.
• Deep knowledge of global data protection laws including ePrivacy and GDPR; ability to research privacy laws and practices globally.
• A background in the AdTech and MarTech industry and good knowledge of Internet technologies.
• Sound judgment, strong “do-er” work ethic, excellent problem solving and organization skills, practicality, a focus on business outcomes and flexibility to manage multiple matters simultaneously.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and experience in partnering with diverse and remote teams throughout the organization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with clients, partners and the business in English (with any other languages being desirable, especially Spanish or Portuguese).
• Ability to work collaboratively with people at all levels under pressure in a rapidly changing environment and to identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly, diplomatically, and effectively.