Senior Privacy Counsel

Job description

Are you an experienced legal professional seeking a challenging role within data protection in a technology company? Are you passionate about privacy and working in a fun environment while solving complex issues? If this sounds like you, then read further!

Role background

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. We’re one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and currently we operate in 31 countries. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores. 

For us privacy and security are core elements of everything we do to ensure we can operate and scale. We’re now looking for an experienced, pragmatic and technically-minded data protection professional to join our privacy team. You would participate in the development of our data protection practices and provide support in day-to-day privacy legal matters across countries, different business functions and multiple data subject groups. The scope of the role and responsibilities may be tailored depending on your experience level.

We’re looking for someone who has the ability to tackle complex privacy issues across different countries and business functions. A person who is able to maneuver multiple cases and stakeholders simultaneously, understand core business needs and support our people with the Wolt way of doing things will excel in this role. In this position you get to influence how to improve processes and scale our way of working. At the end of the day we are looking for an enabler with an entrepreneurial mindset and solution-driven ways of working. Our ideal team member has an ability to be close to our business, is dynamic and proactively gets things done. We also appreciate quick thinking and a can-do attitude of rolling up one's sleeves, no matter the task or if it is in one's comfort zone or not.

In this role, you will be ideally located in Helsinki, Berlin, or Athens. However, we are also open to consider other countries in the EU where Wolt operates

What you’ll be doing

• Work as an individual contributor in the Global Wolt Privacy team
• Work at the cross-section of product, security, engineering and ops teams alongside other experts on the privacy and legal team.
• Develop and contribute to our privacy framework that ensures compliance across our markets.
• Contribute to developing vendor and contract management processes in a global corporate environment
• Partner with central and local teams across Wolt’s operating countries while focusing on privacy matters affecting our services for users, merchants, courier, business, etc.
• Focus on providing legal and compliance support to our product teams & local country legal experts in various privacy matters in Europe and other countries where we operate.
• Maintain internal and external policies and guidelines together with our other experts.
• You’ll also work closely with the Data Protection Officer (DPO) and  the privacy team and help maintain compliance with applicable privacy laws and our privacy program.

Our humble expectations

• Solid 7+ years experience from working with privacy and data protection matters as an in-house counsel and/or at a reputable law firm in an international setting or equivalent. 
• Excellent working knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements pertaining to privacy and data matters, data security and other relevant regulations.
• Knowledge in international data privacy and compliance frameworks, as well as general knowledge of the EU GDPR and AI Act
• Practical mindset on how to apply the rules in a fast-growing and complex business environment is seen as an advantage. 
• Proven experience with working on cross-functional teams and non-legal environments is a strong asset.   
• Ability to take ownership and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining focus on the right priorities.
• Proven ability to balance privacy compliance and business objectives. 
• Ability to lead, organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We are looking for a collaborative team player with a stakeholder-focused approach.
• Ability to solve real life problems both on strategic and practical level.
• Excellent English skills. Any other language skill is considered an advantage.