AI and Privacy Counsel

AI and Privacy Counsel

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Lucy Ferrat

At Sabio Group, we’re building the next generation of AI‑powered customer experience for some of the world’s most demanding enterprise brands. We deliver significant volumes of agentic AI, LLM and conversational solutions into regulated industries, which means the legal and contractual underpinnings of how we sell, deliver and partner on AI are both a competitive advantage and a customer expectation.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Privacy and AI Counsel to join our legal team and partner closely with our Information Security and AI Compliance & Governance functions.

• Draft, review and negotiate AI‑specific terms in:
  • customer contractssuch as IP ownership of inputs/outputs, training data rights, model use restrictions, acceptable use, liability and indemnity positions, performance and uptime, data residency, sub‑processing, exit and transition.
  • partner, reseller and channel agreements, including with hyperscalers and AI platforms (Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognigy and others), understanding the commercial and legal nuances of each provider’s terms. You will be responsible for clarifying responsibilities, flow‑down obligations to customers and risk allocation across the value chain for these suppliers.
• Continued development and maintenance of Sabio’s AI contracting playbook, including standard clauses, fallback positions, negotiation guidance and risk‑tiered approval matrices.
• Support French and/or Spanish commercial contracting during high‑volume periods to deliver increased sales bookings.

• Act as the legal lead on EU AI Act obligations. This includes advising on risk classification of solutions, provider/deployer responsibilities, transparency, due diligence, CE marking and registration, post‑market monitoring and incident reporting.
• Partner with the AI Compliance & Governance Specialist on ISO 42001 roadmap, evidencing legal controls, and aligning contractual commitments with operational reality.
• Track and translate emerging AI regulation across our operating jurisdictions (UK, EU, Spain, France, South Africa) into actionable legal guidance and policy updates.
• Advise on intersections with data protection legislation, IP law, consumer protection and sector‑specific regimes where they touch AI.

• Advise onintellectual property in AI contexts, including use of third‑party content, use of training data, ownership and licensing of models, prompts, fine‑tunes, embeddings, datasets and generated outputs.
• Work with the AI Compliance & Governance Specialist on AI risk assessments.
• Work with information security on data protection impact assessments.
• Advise on and execute Data Subject Request responses.
• Advise on international data transfers, related transfer impact assessments and ongoing data protection obligations.

• Support customer audits, regulator engagement and certification bodies on legal and contractual matters.
• Lead the legal response to AI and data related incidents, complaints or disputes, coordinating response across information security, operations and customer teams.

• Run training and clinics that lift legal and contracting literacy across sales, delivery, AI and partnership teams.
• Bring people together across geographies and disciplines to land negotiation positions and unblock deals.
• Produce high‑quality written content – playbook entries, position papers, customer‑facing legal materials, internal briefings.

• Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction (UK solicitor, Spanish abogado, French avocat or equivalent).
• Able to work autonomously (3-5 years PQE).
• Fluent in English and either French or Spanish. Working proficiency in all three is a strong advantage.
• Demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating technology, software, SaaS or services contracts in a B2B / enterprise setting, including AI‑specific terms and closely adjacent ones (data protection, DORA, EBA).
• Strong…