Legal Counsel - Data Privacy (Junior)

About BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, empowering organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and secure a work-from-anywhere world. Our integrated products and platform offer the industry's most advanced privileged access management (PAM) solution, enabling organizations to quickly shrink their attack surface across traditional, cloud and hybrid environments. 
Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. 

Job Summary

The Legal Counsel will play an integral data privacy role for the legal team. This is a great opportunity for a junior candidate with 1-2 years of post-qualification to fast-track their career working closely with the Sales, Go to Market, Procurement, and other teams to identify and manage legal risk relating to the transactional aspects of collection and processing of personal data in a B2B SaaS based environment.

This is a predominantly transactional role and requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail and communications skills; excellent interpersonal and prioritization capabilities; a commercially focused mindset; and an aptitude for providing pragmatic solutions.

The ideal candidate will have experience working in-house within a global commercial environment and a thorough understanding of the key provisions of cloud/SaaS agreements to be able to independently negotiate with customers and vendors to complete contracts in a timely manner.

What will you do?

• Negotiate and draft customer and vendor-facing data processing agreements (DPAs) and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
• Repaper existing commercial agreements, including locating in—scope contracts and drafting amendments to align with new privacy requirements.
• Provide support in handling customer-facing transfer impact assessments and data subject requests.
• The majority of your work will be data privacy focused. The remainder of your time will be spent providing legal support to other areas of the business as needed (necessary training will be provided).

Who you are?

• A qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practicing certificate.
• 1-2 years of post-qualification experience in data privacy law ideally in the technology, SaaS or Cloud sectors.
• Commercially focused with solid background in commercial contracts and privacy legislation, DPAs & understanding of SCCs.
• Strong understanding of EU/UK privacy regulations including GDPR is essential.
• Knowledge of US privacy issues is preferred.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to translate complex legal issues to a wide range of colleagues.
• Excellent analytical, judgement and decision-making skills.
• Team player with excellent negotiation, writing and communication skills.
• A team player with a positive attitude and sense of humor.

If you have a passion for data privacy and a drive to progress your career to the next level, then we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join BeyondTrust’s legal team and help protect our clients' identities and secure a work-from-anywhere world.

Benefits:

Put your wellbeing first with our amazing benefits package:

• 25 days’ holiday which increases with length of service
• Competitive pension scheme
• Vitality Private Healthcare for you and family
• Medicash Benefit (including Dental cover)
• Life Insurance (4x annual salary)
• Income Protection if you are unable to work due to ill health
• Paid parental leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Co-investing opportunity
• Perks are being reviewed currently to add even more!

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. BeyondTrust is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

What truly makes BeyondTrust special are the people – people who keep the culture strong and make working here exciting, rewarding, and ultimately fun!

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