Unternehmensjuristen
Legal Counsel, Privacy Vollzeit
Company Description
As the world's pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe's largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We push hard, learn quickly and stay human along the way. It's this wonderful mix of high performance and real community that makes Delivery Hero a place where ambition and belonging grow side by side. If you're curious, collaborative and ready to dive deep into meaningful work, you'll fit right in.
Job Description
We are on the lookout for a Legal Counsel, Privacy to join the Global Delivery Hero Data Protection Team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.
Join the team that protects and enables Delivery Hero's growth. In the global Legal, Governance and Assurance (One LGA) team, you'll support key initiatives by providing proactive legal guidance that aligns business goals with regulatory standards. Your work will help mitigate risks and ensure we're positioned for sustainable, long-term success-making you a key contributor to our mission of delivering amazing experiences worldwide.
This role is part of the Global Data Protection Office of Delivery Hero Group, based in Berlin. The role involves counselling internal stakeholders on privacy compliance, supporting the implementation of privacy programs and ensuring adherence to applicable laws, regulations and industry best practices. We are looking for a true collaborator with a hands-on, proactive approach who can work effectively across teams to drive privacy initiatives forward.
- Provide expert, risk-based privacy advice to the business on new products, initiatives, and operational changes.
- Provide guidance on employee data protection (Beschäftigtendatenschutz) across the group, including advising on works council co-determination requirements (where applicable) and embedding compliant processes for handling employee personal data across the full employee lifecycle.
- Support rider privacy matters, in particular compliance with the EU Platform Work Directive's algorithmic management provisions (PWD-A) and Art. 22 GDPR automated decision-making requirements, in order to build compliant practices.
- Perform and support data protection impact assessments, ensuring privacy risks in new employment and platform processes are identified and mitigated early.
- Develop, implement, and maintain global privacy policies, statements, and internal procedures.
- Manage and support investigations or fine-related proceedings with data protection authorities, including the development of strategic mitigation plans.
- Monitor ongoing developments around AI governance and contribute to the improvement of AI governance frameworks, ensuring responsible use of AI systems and compliance with emerging AI regulations globally.
Qualifications
- An educational background in law and proven experience (3+ years) in privacy, with exposure to employee data protection and/or algorithmic management in the context of platform work
- Excellent English language skills. German, Polish or Spanish is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience in advising tech companies and data-driven businesses, across multiple jurisdictions is a plus
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing across different cultures and functions
- Comfortable at contributing to defining compliance strategies in novel or evolving legal frameworks, where guidance or precedent doesn't yet exist (e.g., algorithmic management, platform work regulation)
- Proactive, taking ownership, anticipating challenges, and actively supporting initiatives forward. Owns problems end-to-end, regardless of where they land organizationally
- Certified expertise on EU privacy laws (IAPP CIPP/E, CIPM, TÜV DPO, etc.) is a plus
Additional Information
Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you're in good shape, then we're in good shape.
- Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
- We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
- We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
- Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation & Gym.
- Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we'll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
- The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers and Food Vouchers.
- Wondering what relocating to Berlin is like? In this article, we've put together 10 things you should know about moving to Berlin and how Delivery Hero can support you. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.
- Ready to prepare for your interview? Check out the list of the 5 most common interview questions and answers created in collaboration with our recruiters.
Ready to join our team? If you're excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world's leading
delivery platform, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!
We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring – therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.
We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience-just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at inclusion(at)deliveryhero.com.
Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.
You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.
