AI and Privacy Counsel

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. As part of this role you will: own the legal side of how global AI regulation and data protection flows through Sabio's commercial relationships; customer contracts, partner and reseller agreements, supplier and model-provider terms. be a key legal voice on EU AI Act readiness and implementation, ISO 42001 alignment, and the broader regulatory landscape shaping how we deliver AI to clients while meeting our regulatory obligations.

Sabio is already ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified and we're working towards ISO 42001. You'll help translate that posture into contractual language, negotiation positions and legal strategy. You'll do it in a fast-moving, high-growth business area with a strong remit to shape how AI is built, sold and supported across the Sabio Group.

This is a hands-on role for a lawyer with commercial, regulatory and data protection experience who is genuinely curious about AI, comfortable using AI tooling to amplify their own output, and thoughtful about how to govern it responsibly. Customer & Partner Contracts 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.

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.

AI Regulatory & Compliance: Legal View Act as the legal lead on EU AI Act obligations.

, 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. IP, Data & Risk 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.