Sr Counsel Privacy & AI - Remote

The Adecco Group
- Sr Counsel Privacy & AI
- Remote US

Job : NA06900 Business Unit: The Adecco Group Department: Legal Compliance Work Mode: Remote

Senior Corporate Counsel – Privacy & AI is a senior individual contributor providing specialized legal expertise at the intersection of employment law, data privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence. This role acts as a subject matter expert with a remit for all business units in the NAM region, collaborating closely with global and local legal teams, as well as HR and business functions.

The position bridges global strategy and local execution, ensuring harmonized risk management and governance, and provides subject matter expertise for all Data Privacy, AI, Digital Law, and employment-related queries in the region, with particular emphasis on the unique legal challenges facing workforce solutions providers.

• Act as liaison between Group and local legal teams, ensuring the global Privacy Program and AI & Digital strategy and activities are implemented in NAM, with particular attention to employment-related data processing activities.
• Ensure regional/country adaptation and rollout of global privacy policies, standard operating procedures, and standards, including those specific to employee and candidate data handling.
• Conduct legal analysis for AI use cases impacting the employment lifecycle – including recruitment, hiring, performance management, and workforce scheduling –, as well as deployment and vendor onboarding, including privacy and AI due diligence, reviewing AI systems for compliance with emerging AI regulations (EU AI Act, state AI laws), and assessing algorithmic bias, disparate impact, and fairness risks under Title VII and state employment discrimination laws.
• Advise on employment-related adjacent privacy matters, including biometric data compliance (BIPA and state biometric laws), workplace monitoring and employee surveillance tools, wage and hour timekeeping systems, background check and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) privacy requirements, and cross-border data transfers for international staffing operations involving employee records.
• Advise business stakeholders on data privacy and AI legal risk and mitigation strategies in the employment context, including lawful bases for processing employee and candidate data, data subject rights (including employee access and deletion requests), cross-border data transfers of personnel records, PIAs/DPIAs for HR technologies, AI ethics and responsible AI principles in workforce management, and algorithmic transparency requirements for automated employment decisions.
• Conduct required assessments of applications, websites, systems and AI tools from a data privacy standpoint, with emphasis on HR technology platforms, applicant tracking systems, and workforce management tools; assess third-party supplier maturity and provide recommendations.
• Conduct Data Privacy and AI awareness and training initiatives; onboard and train local privacy ambassadors and maintain close collaboration with them.
• Handle data incidents and breaches involving employee, candidate, or contingent worker data in close collaboration with local legal teams and IT security, and liaise with local data protection authorities where necessary, unless the issue is group-wide where escalation to the Group DPO is required.
• Monitor, ensure registration and notification to local regulators as required by local laws; monitor regulatory changes on Data Privacy, AI and digital law in the region.
• Facilitate the execution of legal mechanisms and ensure compliance of cross-border data transfers, including by conducting transfer impact assessments.
• Partner with employment counsel on joint worker classification, co-employment, and contingent workforce matters that have data privacy or AI implications, including advising on data sharing arrangements with clients and managed service providers.
• Carry out periodic reviews to check accuracy of data inventory (RoPA); assist with internal controls and audits to ensure privacy compliance.
• Manage outside counsel on assigned matters, including selecting and retaining…