Legal Counsel - Tech Regulatory

WHAT YOU'LL DO
BCG is partnering with our clients to tackle some of the world's biggest and most pressing challenges. Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, we are unlocking the potential of those who advance the world. Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm's success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions.

As a Legal team member, you will work across BCG teams and functions to support our business growth strategy, provide counsel and expertise, drive legal innovation, and leverage the power of new ways of working.

The Legal Counsel - Tech Regulatory position requires broad experience in technology and particular AI specific regulatory, policy and compliance legal matters. The Legal Counsel should have interest to develop deep expertise in current and evolving regulatory matters with a strong link to digital, AI and data analytic applications. Among other things, you will:

Help identify and drive regulatory compliance and compliance projects impacting BCG's use, development and deployment technologies both in its client projects and for its internal use.
Develop and support roll out of relevant policies and procedures.
Serve as a critical member of BCG's Responsible AI and AI risk team supporting the team across regulatory and policy topics with a focus on regulation in EU, USA and other major jurisdictions (prior experience in all areas not required, but substantive experience in some areas preferred).
Serve as a central point of contact for resources and materials on current and upcoming AI regulation, knowledge aggregation, horizon scanning, regulatory trends/developments and risk mitigation
Identify risks and issues, suggest alternative solutions and risk management options both as part of discrete project escalations but also on larger projects
Understand, manage and drive compliance with a number of BCG internal policies and governance, external reporting and risk management processes, and counsel members of legal team and other functions.
Support training and continued development of knowledge and skills across both the global legal team and the business around compliance and regulatory issues
Take ownership of discrete legal initiatives as they arise based upon changing business priorities
Collaborate with BCG product development teams to integrate compliance requirements into the product design and development process
Partner with commercial and partnership legal teams with contractual negotiations regarding regulatory subjects
Perform other duties as assigned or required

YOU'RE GOOD AT

An individual successful in this position will excel at:
Keen interest and understand to AI and data analytic tools, following latest tech trends.
Superior analytical skills and creative problem-solving ability, with an appreciation for striking a practical balance between business and legal objectives
Quickly and independently spotting issues, managing complex legal matters with a diverse and global set of stakeholders
Building new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly and comfortably, with the ability to quickly comprehend complex sets of international laws and regulations and interpret those laws within the context of BCG's existing or new global policies
Deploying and driving large scale legal change efforts in partnership with BCG's Compliance function
Performing successfully and producing results in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, client-oriented environment
Being a pragmatic, high-energy professional, with personal and professional self-confidence
Being proactive, hardworking, and a team player who leads by being persuasive and credible
Having the interpersonal skills necessary to build relationships throughout a loosely structured, matrixed organization
Interest in helping others grow and leaning into team oversight as needed
Being comfortable working in a high autonomy culture and balancing competing stakeholders and priorities

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

Graduate degree (J.D.) from an accredited law school and admitted to practice
5-8 years experience with a top tier law firm or in a sophisticated in-house legal department
Prior employment with a regulatory agency, congressional office, or professional services firm where you analysed policy impacts, developed strategic communications and advised on regulatory compliance is preferred, but not required
Proven ability to manage and track ongoing compliance with existing US Federal, US state, EU, UK, and other global regulations and internal policies
Flexibility and a willingness to work on a variety of topics and issues, both within and outside your defined mandate
Excellent written and oral communication skills and English fluency

YOU'LL WORK WITH
A variety of cohorts and functions across the firm, including senior consulting and business services team leadership. You will report into the corporate group within the Legal Team.