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We are working on an opportunity for a Privacy Lawyer with APAC experience to join a global technology organisation. This organisation encourages flexibility and remote working for its global legal team.

• Start ASAP
• 6 Months Initially
• Remote, option to attend London office

What will the role involve?

You will support the company’s privacy programme in APAC, ensuring compliance with regional data protection laws. Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing employee training on data protection across teams (e.g., customer service agents, product, engineering).
• Ensuring employee data is processed in line with privacy regulations, in collaboration with the Employee Experience team.
• Monitoring and assessing compliance with APAC data protection laws through regular audits, policy reviews, and collaboration with Legal and Security teams to ensure robust privacy practices.
• Acting as the primary contact for APAC data protection supervisory authorities and user privacy inquiries.
• Advising on privacy impact assessments and coordinating breach notifications with support from data security experts in Legal, Security, Product and Engineering teams.
• Tracking and advising on APAC legislative developments with Policy and Outside Counsel and engaging with industry associations and regulators on legislative developments around APAC.

What skills do they need?

• 8+ PQE privacy/data protection counsel with strong in-house experience, preferably from a tech/digital space and large multinational organisation.
• Substantive and demonstrated expertise in global data protection law and privacy frameworks, particularly EU and APAC.
• Experience creating and managing compliance processes.
• Understanding technology-driven businesses, communicating concisely, and influencing effectively across a wide audience including regulators, leadership, engineering and product teams, and wider legal team.

If this sounds like you and you're looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a range of reasons – they might be seeking work-life balance, flexibility to work on other projects, or just a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high-quality work with a degree of control that traditional models don’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we select lawyers who are not only technically excellent but also able to work seamlessly with our clients’ teams. This ensures we can consistently offer high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market-leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: work from full-time onsite to a few hours each week from home.
• Training, support from our dedicated HQ team, and know-how.
• A variety of flexible working models, including working at client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich, and Sydney. We are changing how clients buy legal services and providing talented lawyers with new ways of working.

Our rapid growth stems from creating and leading a new professional service category. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story as we continue to innovate and expand.

LOD has attracted the imagination of the legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working globally, serving a diverse client list from multinationals to startups, including Google, Barclays, and adidas.