Senior Data Protection Specialist (m/f/n)

Join our Data Protection team, where you will help shape the approach to privacy and data protection. We are looking for an experienced privacy professional with a pragmatic mindset and strong knowledge of data protection law. Partnering with stakeholders across the business, you will provide practical advice, support GDPR compliance, and help teams make informed, risk-based decisions.

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you must demonstrate:

• Extensive legal and practical experience in data protection law, GDPR compliance, international data transfers, privacy governance frameworks, privacy by design, supervisory authority guidance, practices, and enforcement trends

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior subject-matter expert on GDPR, data protection law, privacy governance, and privacy compliance within the Data Protection team
• Independently manage complex data protection and privacy legal projects, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating data protection agreements, joint controller agreements, data processing frameworks, SCCs, TIAs, DPIAs, and related governance measures
• Independently prepare complex legal analyses and practical risk-based recommendations on data protection risks, regulatory exposure, and compliance strategies
• Provide tailored legal and data protection guidance to business, IT, security, HR, product, and legal stakeholders on matters with significant impact for the company
• Advise on privacy by design, data minimization, retention policies, security incident handling and breach notification obligations
• Support and manage interactions with supervisory authorities, audits, inspections, and potential investigations
• Monitor developments in EU and international data protection law, including EDPB guidance, supervisory authority practice, and enforcement trends, and identify related risks, opportunities, and required changes
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve data protection governance, legal processes, templates, policies, and internal procedures, and support their implementation
• Represent and support the company in negotiations and discussions with customers, vendors, business partners, and other external parties on data protection matters

Essential Requirements

• University degree in Law (Mgr., LL.M. or equivalent)
• At least 5 years of post-graduate legal experience, including a minimum of 3 years focused on data protection, privacy law, GDPR compliance, or privacy governance