Commercial and Privacy Counsel (EMEA)

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS customer agreements (including MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, and AI addendums) for Constructor's EMEA customers.
• Support deal structuring and commercial strategy for Constructor's enterprise sales pipeline across EMEA markets
• Partner with the Head of Legal and COO to build scalable legal processes, policies, and training for a growing international business.
• Help drive Legal team efficiencies, including developing and maintaining contract templates, playbooks, and self-service resources, and exploring process automation.
• Serve as a trusted legal advisor on GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, NIS2, EU AI Act, and other applicable European and Middle Eastern privacy laws (including PDPL)
• Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design principles related to Constructor's collection and use of data.
• Manage Constructor's data protection compliance program for EU/UK operations, including ROPA maintenance, DPIAs, and responding to data subject access requests, and advise on cookie and tracking compliance under the ePrivacy Directive/
• Monitor emerging AI regulatory developments across EU member states and the UK, advise leadership on their impact on Constructor's products and commercial operations, and action compliance efforts..
• Track and assess legislative and regulatory developments across key European markets that may affect Constructor's products, environmental sustainability practices, data practices, or commercial operations
• Support Constructor's EU/UK employment law needs.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Law degree from an accredited institution in the EU, US or UK
• Qualified to practice law in at least one EU member state, US or UK

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-10 years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent on European data protection and commercial technology transactions
• Experience serving as in-house counsel, ideally at a technology or SaaS company
• Familiarity with AI products and related legal and contracting issues.
• Strong negotiator who can balance legal risk with commercial objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable working autonomously in a remote-first environment.
• Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating enterprise SaaS agreements
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, prioritize effectively, and manage a diverse workload with shifting priorities.
• Strong working knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR, and the ePrivacy Directive
• Hands-on experience running privacy programs, including advising on data processing activities, international data transfers, ROPAs, DSARs, incident response planning, and DPIAs
• CIPP/E certification or equivalent data protection qualification
• Proficiency in at least one additional European language
• Experience in a high-growth, start up environment, working on a lean legal team