Legal Counsel

**About the team**

Our Legal and Privacy team is the primary legal partner for Equativ's business leaders across the globe.

Team members provide regulatory support and advice; they grow in a fast-paced and complex environment.

**Key day-to-day responsibilities: Data protection and privacy**:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating data protection agreements (“DPA”) related to a wide variety of contracts across all business units (Europe, APAC, MENA, Americas).
- Drafting, reviewing any privacy policy, impact analysis of the Group.
- Support in the exercise of the individual rights answers, process
- Creating and updating DPA templates for Equativ’s services, platform or for new features or services
- Developing guidelines, playbooks, procedures and training sessions on DPA process and best practices to optimize our efficiency and build legal framework.
- Supporting and advising business leaders daily on any data protection and privacy risks related, product, partnerships and participate to business discussions and answers to RFPs.
- Monitoring data privacy international laws, regulations and case law that are applicable to the ad tech industry and elaborate notes on said regulations and laws.
- Participation to the maintenance of data protection internal documentation
- Taking part into long-term data protection projects

**Compliance**:
- Supporting and advising other departments of the Group Companies related to the rollout of global compliance (privacy, AI, ISO etc.)

**Artificial Intelligence**:
- Analyzing legal issues related to projects involving AI tools, and coordination with other departments.
- Implementation of AI governance and policy, training sessions within the Group
- Maintain internal AI compliance documentation

**Legal Monitoring**:
- Tracking of applicable regulations in digital law, personal data protection law, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity.
- Alerting on new legal framework to take into account and participate to elaboration and execution of related compliance projects
- Implementing on going audit compliance process

**Minimum Qualifications**:
- Master’s degree in digital and data protection / data privacy law or a similar domain
- 3-5 years’ experience as a Legal Counsel - privacy and data protection- Experience in reviewing, drafting and negotiating DPA
- Ability to deliver at pace, juggle competing priorities and build strong relationships with any business and department leaders.
- Ability to translate legal language into clear business language.
- Strong analytical skills and synthesis spirit
- At ease with confidentiality and fast evolving environment
- Team spirit, willing to help
- Fluency in French & English (both written and spoken) is mandatory

**Nice to have but not mandatory**:
- Experience as a Legal Counsel in a digital environment
- Experience of working with a data protection officer in an international environment
- Strong interest in emerging technologies, innovation and digital advertising technologies

About us

Equativ, a leading independent ad platform, brings scale and simplicity to digital advertising.

Following its recent merger with Sharethrough and the acquisition of Kamino Retail, advertisers, media owners, and technology partners rely on Equativ’s advanced SSP, curation, and retail media services and technology to achieve maximum business outcomes.

With a focus on privacy-first programmatic video, CTV, and data-driven solutions, Equativ enables clients to activate across the digital ecosystem while protecting consumer privacy.

The company’s global expertise is also backed by a team of over 750 employees across 19 countries.

Come and lead the charge with us in building a transparent ecosystem based on quality