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Senior Legal Counsel - Data Protection & Privacy - F/M/N

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home

Swile
Swile

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Swile (swile.co) is a French start-up created in 2017 by French serial entrepreneur Loïc Soubeyrand : Swile offers digital solutions for employee rewards and benefits (meal/food vouchers and corporate gifts) through a card and an app that also helps foster engagement. We disrupted the traditional and outdated French paper meal voucher market and were able to gain significant traction. After mastering meal vouchers, Swile is now tackling new rewards and benefits (meal vouchers, corporate gifts, transportation and commuter benefits, vacation allowances and more) that will be stored and managed via a single account, card and app. Our ambition is to enable employers to also improve their employees’ engagement and experience by recognizing key moments and milestones of their lives at work. As such, celebrations (birthdays and work anniversaries), money pots, team events, P2P payments among coworkers are brought together in a single app. As of today, we have raised €11 million (Series A) in 2018, €30 million (Series B) in 2019 and more recently, we completed a third round of fundraising (series C) of €70 million, spearheaded by Index Ventures. After an in-depth study of the growth potential for Swile across global markets, the company is poised to expand into the Brazilian market this year as Brazil is the world’s largest employee benefits market and more generally the perfect place to develop our new HR features namely our “Engagement” offer.

Your role:

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel in Data privacy to join our legal team within the Data/IP/IT/Business department.
Along with the team, you’ll be in charge of the privacy compliance topics in France (from the registries to the AIPD, the DPAs, training of the teams, the legal wordings in the app and emails, the guidelines, processes and documentations, etc.), but also developing group guidelines and templates in each country we would like to develop our activities worldwide (especially in LATAM but also Europe).
You’ll be working closely with people across the company, especially the Security, Innovation, Data, Sales, Payment and Marketing teams, as well as external counsels when needed.
This is a challenging role in a fast-paced environment with a lot of new products and projects to be developed. We are looking for someone who is aligned with Swile’s values, a doer with strong communication and project management skills.


Preferred experience

Your mission 🦄

  • Contribute actively to the implementation of the projects from a GDPR perspective and the strategy around data protection for all the teams (including marketing subjects, cookies etc.).
  • Build up and maintain global core privacy policies, processes and documentation for the Swile group, in collaboration with the relevant teams, especially Security.
  • In collaboration with the rest of the team, run the privacy compliance activities (record of processing activities, record of data breaches, privacy impact assessments, notification to the data protection authority when required, etc.).
  • Develop group policies regarding GDPR and help the teams of the others countries to be GDPR compliant (especially LATAM and then Europe).
  • Draft the templates of DPAs and negotiate them when needed by the business legal counsels, especially with our clients and prospects.
  • Answer to the GDPR questionnaires in the scope of RFPs and to questions of the clients regarding Swile’s GDPR policies.
  • Participate to the development of the awareness and training actions on data protection to the teams.
  • Help the rest of the legal & compliance team on data privacy topics.
  • From time to time, negotiate IT contracts with our providers.
  • Ensure a legal watch in the privacy area.

Your Expérience 🤓

  • At least 8 years experience in privacy, with an experience in project management regarding the implementation of the GDPR.
  • Familiar with working in an international environment.
  • Excellent knowledge of the GDPR with a global experience in its implementation.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Fluent both in French and English (Spanish, Portuguese and/or German would be a plus).
  • Able to draft and negotiate at least a DPA, and ideally, IT contracts as well.
  • Previous experience in a scale-up and/or the financial environment would be appreciated.

Our culture will match with your ambitions if you are 😍

  • A team-player
  • A born customer oriented
  • Ambitious and dynamic: at Swile, sky’s the limit 🛫
  • Autonomous, organized and resilient
  • Reactive in a fast-paced environment and pleasant to work with
  • Excellent interpersonal and editorial skills, with exceptional listening skills
  • Passionate and curious: you are constantly on the lookout and like to interact with your peers … you are in a state of perpetual learning #testandlearn🤓100% at ease with tools like Slack, Google Suite.

Our values 🦄

  • We are Team-Players: We succeed as a team! Learning, growing and taking off together is what drives us on a daily basis
  • We are Doers: Being creative, curious, and wanting to build things with a test and learn mindset, this is who we are!
  • We move Fast: The ability to be organized, adaptable and innovative to keep up with technological advancements in the market!
  • We Stay Hungry: Our ambition has no limit, and this requires humility, questioning, and the will to always set the bar higher!
  • We are Ambassadors: As we are the first and daily users of our product, speaking about Swile gives us pride!
  • We cherish our Values: Very committed, Swilers are passionate about maintaining our culture.

Recruitment process 👫

  • Video interview: 30-45 minutes
  • Hiring manager interview: 45-60min with Prescillia, our Head of Legal, evaluation of soft/hard skills, teamfit, background, team/job information)
  • Business Case: A case you will have to prepare at home
  • Swilers interview: 45 minutes / During this stage all our Swilers can be called in and contribute to a skills assessment of candidates (focus on culture and values). Interviewers will be able to meet candidates without cognitive bias and have constructive feedback on their interpersonal skills and know-how. Involving all of our employees in the success of our hiring process is an integral part of our culture and values
  • Final Round: 45 minutes with Marine our Legal & Compliance Director
  • Our hiring process lasts on average about 2 weeks, and offers usually come within 24 hours.

Diversity 🌎

  • We are proud to consider people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or race.
  • Every candidate will be treated equally in the recruitment process. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, please don’t hesitate to apply and tell us why you would be a good fit!

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