Senior Counsel, Data Privacy & AI in भारत

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Counsel, Data Privacy & AI based in India. This is an opportunity to shape how data privacy, governance, and responsible artificial intelligence are embedded into a global employment technology platform. As Senior Counsel, you will provide strategic legal guidance across privacy, data protection, and AI governance, helping teams innovate while maintaining customer trust and regulatory compliance. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, IT, and business stakeholders to integrate privacy-by-design principles and responsible AI practices throughout the product lifecycle. The role combines sophisticated legal analysis, commercial negotiations, and practical risk management in a fast-growing, internationally distributed business. You will translate evolving global regulations into clear policies, scalable frameworks, and actionable guidance that enables teams to make confident decisions. Your expertise will support products and services spanning global employment, payroll, contractor management, and workforce mobility, where sensitive personal data requires careful handling. This is an ideal opportunity for a commercially minded legal professional who thrives at the intersection of technology, emerging AI regulation, and international data protection.

Accountabilities - Global privacy and AI legal leadership: Serve as the primary legal advisor on data privacy, data protection, and AI matters affecting the platform, internal operations, product development, and commercial initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. - Privacy-by-design and product counseling: Partner with Product and Engineering teams from initial ideation through launch to embed privacy-by-design principles, responsible AI practices, and proportionate risk controls into product features and operational workflows. - Regulatory interpretation and practical guidance: Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear product guidance, internal policies, review frameworks, checklists, and decision-making standards that enable teams to operate confidently and consistently. - AI governance and responsible innovation: Support enterprise-wide AI governance, including use-case assessments, risk classification, documentation, transparency, human oversight, model and data governance, incident response, and the development of appropriate policies and controls. - Privacy assessments and operational compliance: Lead or support Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), Transfer Impact Assessments (TIAs), data mapping, retention reviews, vendor assessments, international transfer evaluations, and other core privacy operations. - Commercial contracting and negotiations: Draft, review, and negotiate privacy- and AI-related contractual provisions, including Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), data-use terms, product agreements, vendor provisions, and customer commitments. - Workforce data protection: Advise on privacy and data protection issues across global employment, employer-of-record (EOR), payroll, contractor, professional employer organization (PEO), and workforce mobility services, considering the complexities of cross-border employee and contractor data processing. - Security incidents and breach response: Collaborate with Security, IT, and relevant business teams to assess privacy incidents, determine notification obligations, support regulatory reporting, coordinate remediation, and incorporate lessons learned into future controls. - Customer and audit support: Prepare and review customer-facing and auditor-facing materials, including privacy questionnaires, AI governance statements, compliance documentation, trust materials, and internal operational playbooks.