Location:
Hybrid or Remote in UK with Occasional Travel to our Central London Office
Position:
Permanent
Reports to:
General Counsel
About Petlab Co
Pet Lab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, we successfully achieved a 9-figure revenue last year. We have a loyal community of loving pet parents and over 1.5 million happy dogs whose lives have been positively impacted by our innovative products. Our team is vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-driven where high-performers are valued and rewarded. And it is the ideal place for an ambitious, hardworking, animal lover who wants to progress their career rapidly.
The Role
A senior role in Pet Lab Co.'s Legal function, working in partnership with the General Counsel. You'll run the day-to-day of our privacy programme and legal operations, and independently progress commercial, consumer, IP and governance matters within agreed parameters. You'll be the coordination point across Legal: triaging new matters, setting priorities, forming practical recommendations, managing stakeholders, and seeing decisions through to completion, resolving what you can and escalating what needs the General Counsel.
This isn't a traditional Legal Counsel role, and qualifying as a lawyer isn't required. We're looking for strong legal fluency, real privacy expertise, and the judgement and operational discipline to help a small team support a fast-moving international business.
What we're looking for
An experienced legal, privacy or compliance professional who pairs substantive knowledge with operational judgement. You interpret contracts and regulatory requirements, turn them into action, and keep multiple matters moving without losing sight of risk or commercial priority.
You have significant hands-on data privacy experience: assessing new processing activities, negotiating data processing terms, handling privacy incidents and data subject requests, and working with technical and commercial teams to understand what actually happens to personal data.
You create leverage for the General Counsel. You gather the facts, find the real issue, form a recommendation, and own matters through to closure rather than treating advice as the finish line. You're pragmatic and commercially minded, more interested in finding a compliant route than flagging risk and stopping there.
You won't have done all of this before, and you don't need to have. The essentials are deep hands-on privacy experience and the ability to work across a broad legal remit.
Privacy and data protection
- Oversee and coordinate the privacy programme across the UK, EU, US and Canada, with the eneral Counsel, Cybersecurity and business teams.
- Advise early and practically on new or changed uses of personal data (marketing tech, CRM, analytics, AI, vendor initiatives).
- Lead DPIAs, legitimate interests and other privacy risk assessments, recording decisions, mitigations and ownership.
- Review and negotiate DPAs and privacy terms, assess vendors handling personal data, and find workable safeguards.
- Coordinate incident response (fact-gathering, documentation, escalation) and manage data subject requests to resolution.
- Support any appointed Data Protection Officer, should one be required.
Legal operations and matter management
- Own Legal's intake and matter management: triage, prioritise, progress and close, and keep visibility over deadlines, dependencies and open actions.
- Act as the coordination point between the General Counsel, business stakeholders, external counsel and other advisers.
- Progress routine and moderately complex matters independently; escalate significant or precedent-setting issues accordingly.
- Improve workflows, playbooks, templates and knowledge management, using appropriate AI tools in line with our confidentiality, privacy and security requirements.
Commercial contracts
- Manage the contract lifecycle from intake to post-signature, working with the General Counsel on higher-risk or strategic agreements.
- Draft, review and help negotiate NDAs, DPAs and commercial agreements across marketing, technology, supply chain, professional services etc within agreed positions.
- Coordinate vendor onboarding and risk review with Finance, Procurement, Cybersecurity etc, tracking renewals, notice periods etc
Intellectual property and brand protection
- Coordinate the international trademark portfolio and register with the General Counsel and external counsel on filings, strategy and disputes.
- Handle day-to-day brand protection and…
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