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.
• Help translate that posture into contractual language, negotiation positions and legal strategy.
• Act as the legal lead on EU AI Act obligations including 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 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.

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.
• In-house experience in a technology, SaaS, AI, contact-centre or consulting business is desirable.
• Direct experience negotiating with hyperscalers and AI platforms (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognigy and similar) is also desirable.
• Experience supporting customer audits, working with certification bodies and managing regulator engagement on legal matters is a plus.

Tech Stack

• AWS

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Remote/Flexible work
• Life insurance
• Private health
• Plus many more! (Benefits are dependant on your base location.)