AI and Privacy Counsel

Role Overview

• own the legal side of how global AI regulation and data protection flows through Sabio's commercial relationships; customer contracts, partner and reseller agreements, supplier and model-provider terms.
• be a key legal voice on EU AI Act readiness and implementation, ISO 42001 alignment, and the broader regulatory landscape shaping how we deliver AI to clients while meeting our regulatory obligations.
• translate that posture into contractual language, negotiation positions and legal strategy.
• support French and/or Spanish commercial contracting during high-volume periods to deliver increased sales bookings.
• Act as the legal lead on EU AI Act obligations. This includes advising on risk classification of solutions, provider/deployer responsibilities, transparency, due diligence, CE marking and registration, post-market monitoring and incident reporting.
• Partner with the AI Compliance & Governance Specialist on ISO 42001 roadmap, evidencing legal controls, and aligning contractual commitments with operational reality.
• Track and translate emerging AI regulation across our operating jurisdictions (UK, EU, Spain, France, South Africa) into actionable legal guidance and policy updates.
• Advise on intersections with data protection legislation, IP law, consumer protection and sector-specific regimes where they touch AI.
• Advise on intellectual property in AI contexts, including use of third-party content, use of training data, ownership and licensing of models, prompts, fine-tunes, embeddings, datasets and generated outputs.
• Work with the AI Compliance & Governance Specialist on AI risk assessments.
• Work with information security on data protection impact assessments.
• Advise on and execute Data Subject Request responses.
• Advise on international data transfers, related transfer impact assessments and ongoing data protection obligations.
• Support customer audits, regulator engagement and certification bodies on legal and contractual matters.
• Lead the legal response to AI and data related incidents, complaints or disputes, coordinating response across information security, operations and customer teams.
• Run training and clinics that lift legal and contracting literacy across sales, delivery, AI and partnership teams.
• Bring people together across geographies and disciplines to land negotiation positions and unblock deals.
• Produce high-quality written content — playbook entries, position papers, customer-facing legal materials, internal briefings.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction (UK solicitor, Spanish abogado, French avocat or equivalent).
• Able to work autonomously (3-5 years PQE).
• Fluent in English and either French or Spanish. Working proficiency in all three is a strong advantage.
• Demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating technology, software, SaaS or services contracts in a B2B / enterprise setting, including AI-specific terms and closely adjacent ones (data protection, DORA, EBA).
• Strong working knowledge of the EU AI Act and a clear understanding of how risk classification, obligations and timelines translate into contractual and legal positions.
• The GDPR, as well as local data protection laws such as LOPDGDD/Loi Sapin II/UK GDPR, Data Use and Access, etc. (depending on location).
• Awareness of AI-specific risks and how to allocate them contractually.
• Understanding of core principles of modern AI to allow you to negotiate credibly with technical counterparts and write contractual language that reflects how AI systems behave.
• Hands-on experience using AI tooling for professional purposes, such as using AI co-work / copilots to draft, review, redline, analyse and accelerate your own output.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II at the level needed to align contracts and customer commitments to certification posture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to draft a precise contractual clause, run a negotiation, brief a customer's counsel and write a relevant internal note.
• Ability to run meetings, bring groups together and drive outcomes across geographically dispersed teams and different business functions. You are comfortable in a high-pace, multi-stakeholder environment. You are motivated and able to build effective working relationships across cultures and time zones.
• A passion for raising the bar in others. You will deliver training and coaching, enabling and growing legal/commercial literacy across the organisation.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Remote/Flexible work
• Life insurance
• Private health and dental care
• Cycle to work
• 28 days paid holiday a year
• (this includes three Sabio days)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Plus many more! (Benefits are dependant on your base location.)