# Privacy and AI Counsel **Company**: Wise **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000158537699-privacy-and-ai-counsel?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a6e89d5f-27d ## Description As a valued member of our group privacy team, based in London, you will provide legal advice and guidance on privacy matters, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Reporting to the UK & EMEA privacy lead, you will work with various business units and stakeholders to ensure privacy is embedded in new initiatives and projects, including several AI projects. Our group privacy team is part of the legal tribe and works with other privacy and data protection stakeholders at Wise, including engineering teams, risk, operations and the business teams that develop and manage financial products and services. Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: - Product counselling, including advising on DPIAs for high-risk processing and strategic AI initiatives - Wise Platform and Banking Partner contracting - Advising on privacy requirements for expansion into new jurisdictions - Advising on data sharing arrangements - Advising on a range of privacy and data matters relating to AI adoption at Wise - Compliance with cross-border data protection requirements - Assisting with periodic global and/or entity audits - Supporting the implementation of data governance and AI governance frameworks To thrive in this role, you will be a self-starter and a great influencer and communicator. You will be comfortable working in grey areas and making judgement calls at speed. You will be obsessed with detail and happy handling competing priorities and differences of opinion. You will have: - Significant exposure to privacy and AI issues in the UK and Europe, with an emphasis on the use of EU/UK data in sophisticated market scenarios - Experience in privacy by design and data protection impact assessments, including for AI initiatives - Experience in drafting and negotiating privacy-related contracts and developing compliance and auditing frameworks - Excellent written and verbal skills in English - Admitted to practice law in the UK or a European jurisdiction with at least 4 years of PQE experience in advising on privacy matters - A problem-solving attitude, with the ability to use regulation together with data to drive business decisions - Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to deepen relationships and build partnerships across the business, including in operations, engineering, and risk - Comfortable taking the initiative and working across multiple business lines and jurisdictions - An understanding of digital and consumer-focused businesses, including new and developing businesses, is also advantageous - Ability to drive and deliver projects from inception to completion, timely and with attention to detail Desirable: - Relevant privacy qualification, such as CIPM, CIPP or equivalent - Financial services experience is a plus - Experience of data anonymisation, PETS, and familiarity with ethical frameworks, data governance and accountability ## Skills ### Required - privacy law - AI law - data protection impact assessments - privacy by design - contract negotiation - compliance - data governance - AI governance - project management - relationship management ### Nice to have - CIPM - CIPP - financial services experience - data anonymisation - PETS - ethical frameworks --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000158537699-privacy-and-ai-counsel?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)