Privacy Counsel
Xero
This job is no longer accepting applications
See open jobs at Xero.See open jobs similar to "Privacy Counsel" Accel.Legal
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on Jul 5, 2024
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting Xero’s privacy and AI strategies. You’ll be responsible for partnering with the business and providing legal advice and support in relation to a range of complex privacy, AI, cyber and spam related legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across all regions in which Xero operates. This role will report to Xero’s GM - Global Privacy and work closely with the Privacy team, wider Legal team, key business partners and external advisors.
What you'll do...
- Support legal and business teams in identifying and resolving privacy, AI, cyber and spam marketing related legal matters, including both business-led and privacy team-led initiatives, and including both global and region-specific matters.
- Work closely with varied stakeholders from product, technology and data services teams - including security, data governance and data science - on existing and new data use cases and product features to ensure compliance with Xero’s approach to responsible data use, including working through data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) where appropriate.
- Working with the GM - Global Privacy), drive and support the further development and maturation of internal privacy, data, and AI governance programmes.
- Support data incident management, including taking “on-call” shifts to respond to urgent incidents.
- With the GM - Global Privacy, support Xero’s response to enquiries from privacy, cyber, and AI regulators.
- Work closely with CX to ensure compliance with data subjects’ rights obligations.
- Help evaluate the impact of evolving legislative and regulatory environments for privacy, AI, and cyber on Xero’s various business units, ensuring the business is informed.
- Collaborate and build relationships with key internal stakeholders to champion privacy, AI, and cyber across the business while continuing to enable commercial opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
- Support and facilitate key governance forums (including DUGG, SGG, and the Data Privacy Group), and advise as required on privacy, AI, cyber and spam marketing topics.
- Review and advise on data processing addenda and data protection/privacy related clauses.
- Contribute to internal privacy, data protection, AI, and cyber policy and process development (including training).
- Liaise with and manage Xero’s external legal advisors as required.
- Support your own development by undergoing appropriate training courses in privacy, AI, cyber, and spam marketing (as agreed with the GM - Global Privacy).
- Drive and support operational legal team projects, for example to manage workflow, improve operational efficiencies, knowledge management.
Experience
- 2-5 years PQE (in-house legal experience desirable).
- Demonstrated ability to be a commercially minded business partner to busy business teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge and experience of global privacy and data protection law.
- Current legal practicing certificate in NZ or AU.
- Experience or strong demonstrated interest in global approaches to data governance frameworks, including AI governance (desirable).
- Experience providing legal advice to companies in the technology sector (desirable).
Critical Competencies
- Strong legal drafting, analytical, research and interpretation skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and a pragmatic approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High level of attention to detail.
- A great sense of humour.
- Ability to prioritise work according to multiple stakeholder needs.
- Ability to work autonomously where appropriate.
- Ability to take a proactive and creative approach to managing/solving legal issues.
- Collaborative, growth and innovation mindset.
- Ability to convey complex legal matters in a digestible, plain-english format.
- Ability to develop meaningful relationships across the business with a variety of stakeholder, to understand their priorities and concerns
This job is no longer accepting applications
See open jobs at Xero.See open jobs similar to "Privacy Counsel" Accel.