Jun 6, 2022

JUNIOR PRIVACY COUNSEL IN PARIS, RELOCATE TO FRANCE WITH WORK VISA SPONSORSHIP

As a Privacy Counsel, you will contribute to our overall compliance program while supporting members’ experience. You will counsel and provide legal support to all our Teams globally. You’ll work closely with the organisation's senior management as well as Security, Engineering, Product, Community Relations and Marketing teams. As a support of our Senior Privacy Counsel and Data Protection Officer, you will be deeply involved in ensuring that BlaBlaCar’s services are crafted, built and maintained in a way that aligns with applicable privacy obligations around the world.

JUNIOR PRIVACY COUNSEL IN PARIS, RELOCATE TO FRANCE WITH WORK VISA SPONSORSHIP | visajobshq.com

Your responsibilities
 

  • Contribute to our privacy program by ensuring the updates and the continuous improvements of the existing accountability documentation (registers, PIA, privacy policies,...);

  • Contribute to the assessment of third party suppliers and negotiate Data Processing Agreements with various external stakeholders;

  • Collaborate with teams across BlaBlaCar to help designing new features consistent with relevant laws and regulations, provide data protection advice and support to operational teams;

  • Design and deliver training plans to promote a culture of data protection compliance across all parts of BlaBlaCar;

  • Draft, implement and communicate policies, processes and templates related to BlaBlaCar’s data protection practices;

  • Be part of the security incident response team to evaluate the security events and examine potential data breaches;

  • Act as a partner for other in-house counsels on all kinds of data protection matters;

  • Collaborate with internal partners to respond to requests from regulators, law enforcement and customers;

  • Analyze new or upcoming data protection laws, data protection authorities guidelines and priorities and its impacts on our business.

Your qualifications

  • Master 2 degree with a specialization in Data Privacy Laws;

  • 1st experience in privacy/data protection law experience at a top tier law firm, in-house or in a Data Protection Authority (including internships);

  • Willingness to understand a technology-driven businesses;

  • Capacity to communicate concisely and to collaborate across all functions;

  • You’re humble and you enjoy sharing & learning from others;

  • You have a results-driven and impact-oriented mindset;

  • Fluency in English

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application

Nice to have

  • Another language (French, Russian, German, Spanish)

  • Relevant in-house experience in an international company in the tech / digital space

  • Privacy certification

  • Bar exam

What we have to offer
 

  • 🌎 An international environment: over 35 nationalities across 7 countries: France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Poland.

  • 💡 Opportunities to learn: 360 onboarding weeks, weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn about what other teams are up to, International Weeks to mingle with other offices, regular Q&A sessions with our leadership, honest discussions about our company KPIs, ‘Fail, Learn, Succeed’ moments where we destigmatize and share moments of failure with others.

  • 🚀 Innovation: Coding Nights to pitch ideas outside our roadmap and make development dreams come true, weekly Product & Tech Demos and blogs to share engineering stories, access to top conferences across Europe.

  • 🌱 Impact: building a product that has a real impact on society and the environment, and sharing an office culture that prioritizes low-waste and eco-friendly practices.

  • 💜 People-first: wind down from work at our BlaBlaShows, BlaBlaBreak retreats, weekly breakfasts and afterworks (when the sanitary conditions permit it) or meme battles on Slack.

  • 🧭 Shared company principles that guide us in our everyday decision-making and bring us closer to our goal. Find out more about our BlaBlaPrinciples.

Your Future Benefits
 

  • 🏡 Tailor-made remote policy: from 2 days per week to full remote (to be discussed with the Talent Acquisition Manager during the first call).

  • 💰 A fair & competitive salary package

  • 🎈Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days

  • 🌍 Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based

  • 👶 Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)

  • 🎒 Trainings & career development programs🚗

  • Free carpooling & 🚌 bus-rides wherever whenever