Description
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.
As Senior Counsel, Data Privacy – you will be part of a leading and innovative team responsible for the legal risk areas of data privacy, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. In this role, you will serve as a key legal partner guiding Agoda’s global privacy strategy across high-visibility domains, collaborating closely with our global Product, Marketing, Tech and Customer Experience teams.
Responsibilities:
- Privacy By Design & Product Counseling: partnering proactively with Product and Tech teams from concept to launch. Conduct privacy impact assessments and translate a complex patchwork of regulations around the globe into practical, scalable product requirements across various initiatives including new verticals.
- Marketing, AdTech & MarTech: expected to understand, navigate and provide practical privacy counsel to our marketing teams across both conventional and cutting-edge marketing strategies and initiatives.
- Contracting, negotiations and templates: heavily involved in the contractual negotiation and drafting of privacy provisions, data protection-related agreements and templates.
- Regulatory change management for new and amended data protection laws: this includes contributing to the privacy advisory aspects of projects for compliance with such laws.
- Program, auditing and controls: working closely with our Privacy Program team to facilitate and manage key aspects of the privacy program, audits and enable reporting obligations.
- Contribute to brand initiatives within the Booking Holdings Inc. family: you may be expected to contribute and have meaningful impact across brands through cross brand initiatives, forums, networks and offsites etc.
- Artificial Intelligence: lead privacy legal advisory on the deployment of generative AI, machine learning models and conduct AI risk assessments for your areas of coverage.
- General privacy support: as may be required in order to support relevant enquiries, authority demand requests and escalations relating to data subject rights
Requirements:
- 6+ years of post-qualification experience, with at least 2 years at a reputable law firm.
- Law degree from a top law school, and excellent academic credentials.
- Deep practical knowledge of major international privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, PDPA, PIPA, APPI, DPDPA, PIPL).
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated experience in building trust, forging collaboration and influencing cross-functional partners; thriving in an open, matrixed and culturally diverse environment.
- Strong strategic and commercial risk calibration skills.
Benefits:
- Relocation support available for eligible candidates to ensure a smooth transition to working and living in Bangkok.