Senior Legal Counsel - Data Privacy & IT Law (f/m/d) 🚀

Created in 2016, Free2move 🚀 simplifies mobility-related uses by offering a wide range of services to satisfy everyone's 🚘 travel needs.

With Free2move, you can rent a city car for shopping or for your stay in Italy 🏖️ or book a car park during your weekend in Paris... all in one click, on our web/mobile platform! 📲

Born from the merger of the Stellantis Group 🚗 and the start-up TravelCar, Free2move, thanks to its agility and its spirit of conquest has managed to establish itself in just few years 🚀 as a reference player to revolutionize the mobility of all travellers.

Having become the #1 reflex for more than 6 million users 👑, Free2move operates in more than 170 countries across 5 continents 🌎 and is available in 30 languages and 26 currencies. 5000 partners trust us and several hundred thousand vehicles are available!

If you want to join a team of +750🏆 experts and bold international projects, then you're in the right place! 🎯

You will evolve in an ultra-dynamic, innovative, agile, internationally-focused structure and integrate our talented ❤️teams♥️, full of ideas and motivation and with multidisciplinary skills, at the crossroads of the digital eco-system and the fast-changing automotive sector.

Free2move is looking for a talented Senior Legal Counsel - Data Privacy & IT Law to join its Legal Team.

This role covers both data protection law and IT law, including contract negotiation for procurement and IT services.

The successful candidate will play a key role in overseeing and continuously improving Free2move’s compliance with global data privacy regulations while providing legal expertise on digital law, new technology, and complex IT contracts.

Data Protection & Privacy Compliance

- Act as key legal advisor for business teams on EU data protection (GDPR) and global privacy regulations.

- Oversee and implement data privacy compliance programs, including international data transfer mechanisms (e.g. EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs))

- Conduct audits (inc. DPIAS) and data processing mapping to ensure ongoing compliance

- Draft and implement policies and guidelines (incl. privacy notices, records of processing activities, cross-border adequacy strategy, data retention concept, data breaches procedures)

- Design and implement data privacy training for employees

- Handle inquiries from external clients and sub-contractors, internal key stakeholders

- Ensure that the IT systems and procedures comply with data privacy regulations and policies

- Leads investigations and response efforts for data protection violations, including handling data breaches

- Advise on and oversee the lawful execution of Data Subject Rights requests

- Coordinate with external legal counsel where necessary to address local privacy laws issues

- Contribute to the implementation of legal tech solutions to streamline privacy compliance

IT law and technology contracts

- Provide legal expertise on technology-related matters, including AI, cybersecurity and digital platforms

- Draft, review, and negotiate IT-related contracts, including SaaS, IT outsourcing contracts, and software licensing agreements.

- Support procurement and IT departments in contract negotiations

- Ensure the legal compliance of new digital and technological projects with applicable laws (e.g. e-Privacy, DSA, DMA)

Expected skills:

• 🔧 Master's degree in Business Law, Digital Law or Data Protection Law
• 🔧 8+ years’ of experience in a law firm or in-house legal role handling data privacy and IT law matters
• 🔧  Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) is a plus
• 🔧  Proven experience negotiating IT contracts
• 🔧  English fluent, as well as native levels skills in French and German
• 🔧  Ability to provide concise, clear and pragmatic legal advice
• 🔧  Be a self-starter with high personal accountability
• 🔧 Team-oriented attitude
• 🔧  Discretion and respect for confidentiality

What we offer:
Working at Free2move means becoming part of a tribe in which the culture of performance rhymes with a good atmosphere. It is also:

• A start-up spirit supported by a large Group 🥇
• The opportunity to revolutio