Senior Legal Counsel - Data, Privacy & AI

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Join the GetYourGuide journey to connect people with unforgettable travel experiences around the world. Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust, and it’s all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours.

Ready to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers? Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe, from New York to Bangkok. Head to getyourguide.careers to take the first step.

Team mission

GetYourGuide's Legal Team is passionate about our business and our customers. With Legal Team presence in Berlin, New York and Bangkok, we are trusted and pragmatic business partners, operating in a fast paced environment. Our team finds practicable and innovative solutions for complex problems, manages legal risks and promotes integrity.

We are an international and multidisciplinary team with expertise in various fields of law. Serving our business flexibly, we often also work on topics outside of our core specialty. You will be able to count on amazing, highly motivated colleagues who truly enjoy working together and are eager to learn from each other. The position offers lots of opportunities for personal and professional growth within a fast moving environment. We enable you to work independently while giving you every support and opportunity to learn and grow on the job.

This is a full time role based in our Berlin HQ.

You will

• You will be a trusted business partner for stakeholders across the company, acting as both an enabler and guardian. In this role you will develop a deep understanding of our business and tech stack, take ownership of our core data protection workstreams, and contribute to the legal team's growing use of AI tooling - both to support our work and to embed compliance into the products our colleagues build.
• Own our core data protection operations end to end - including Data Subject Requests, Records of Processing Activities, Data Protection Impact Assessments, and data retention
• Set legal standards and provide oversight for our privacy operational processes, working closely with stakeholders across the business.
• Review and negotiate SaaS, vendor, and AI tool agreements as part of our procurement legal review process.
• Act as a trusted legal partner to key business teams, embedding privacy-by-design into product development and advising on AI features, new data flows, and high-impact processing activities
• Track regulatory developments in data protection and AI, and translate them into actionable updates for the team and business
• Contribute to the legal team's process improvement and AI tooling work - using AI to make our own legal processes more effective and to support compliance across the company

Who you are

• You are a privacy and tech legal professional with expertise in GDPR compliance, data protection operations, and the legal challenges of AI-powered products.
• Full legal qualifications or alternative qualifications for in-house lawyers with excellent results
• 3-5+ years of post-graduate work experience in an international law firm and/or in a tech company with substantial exposure to data privacy and tech law
• Strong GDPR and data protection foundations across DPAs, DSARs, ROPA, DPIAs, and retention - comfortable owning these workstreams independently, not just advising on them
• Genuine interest in AI regulation and the legal implications of AI-powered products and internal tooling
• A builder mindset - curious about using AI tools to improve legal processes and willing to contribute to internal tooling, not just consume it
• Foundational knowledge of and affinity for tech and platform business
• Excellent communication and relationship building - comfortable working directly with engineers, product managers, and operational teams
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; German is a strong plus

How we set you up for success

• Invest in your development with an annual personal growth budget
• Become a part of our success with virtual stock options
• Enjoy flexibility with a hybrid work-from-home and telecommuting policy
• Save on transportation costs with discounted public transportation tickets
• Support your loved ones with generous maternity and paternity leave policies

And more...

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at [email protected].

We’re an equal opportunities employer

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