AI and Privacy Counsel

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate AI-specific terms in customer contracts and partner, reseller and channel agreements. 
• Contribute to and maintain Sabio’s AI contracting playbook, including standard clauses, fallback positions and negotiation guidance. 
• Support French and/or Spanish commercial contracting during high-volume periods. 

• Serve as day-to-day legal point of contact on EU AI Act obligations, including risk classification, transparency, and provider/deployer responsibilities. 
• Partner with the AI Compliance & Governance Specialist on  
• Our ISO 42001 roadmap and ongoing compliance;  
• Aligning contractual commitments with operational reality; and 
• Translating emerging AI regulation across our operating jurisdictions (UK, EU, Spain, France) into actionable legal guidance. 

• Advise on intellectual property in AI contexts – training data, model ownership, licensing, and generated outputs. 
• Support data protection impact assessments and AI risk assessments. 
• Advise on international data transfers and ongoing data protection obligations. 
• Handle Data Subject Request responses by implementing Sabio’s standard procedures. 

• Run training and clinics that build legal and contracting literacy across sales, delivery, AI and partnership teams. 
• Produce clear written content: playbook entries, position papers and internal briefings. 
• Support customer audits and the legal response to AI and data-related incidents or disputes. 

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction (UK, France, Spain or equivalent), with 3-5 years’ PQE. 
• Demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating technology, SaaS or services contracts in a B2B/enterprise setting, including AI-specific or closely adjacent terms (data protection, GDPR, UK GDPR). 
• Working knowledge of the EU AI Act and a clear understanding of how risk classification and obligations translate into contractual and legal positions. 
• Strong working knowledge of the GDPR and relevant local data protection laws. 
• Fluent in English and French, or English and Spanish. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating across business functions, cultures and time zones.

• In-house experience in a technology, SaaS, AI or consulting business. 
• Direct experience negotiating with hyperscalers or AI platforms (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI and similar). 
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001 or ISO/IEC 27001. 
• Exposure to IP licensing or open-source compliance. 
• Comfortable using AI tooling to amplify your own output and thoughtful about how to govern it responsibly. 

• Spain - able to travel easily to Madrid 
• France - able to travel easily to Paris 
• UK - able to travel easily to London or Glasgow 

Benefits

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