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About the Role

Index Exchange is seeking a passionate, curious, and self-motivated Privacy Counsel to join the Privacy Legal team. This role offers the opportunity to enjoy the momentum of a fast-moving company and focus on creative, solutions-oriented approaches with uncompromising legal standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on global privacy, data protection, and information security laws and regulations.
• Draft and negotiate privacy and security terms in legal agreements.
• Monitor and advise on new and evolving privacy and data laws and regulations.
• Support business units by identifying legal, regulatory and compliance requirements, mitigating risks, and conducting privacy reviews for new and amended initiatives.
• Support Index’s privacy and information security compliance programs, including impact assessments, certifications, audits, regulatory compliance projects, data subject requests, training, and policy development.
• Engage with government, industry, and consumer groups on privacy issues.
• Partner with key departments (e.g. Product, Engineering, and Information Security) throughout the design, development, and launch of new products or changes to existing products to ensure privacy requirements align with business objectives.
• Work with the Information Security team and other stakeholders to provide legal support during incident response activities.
• Maintain strong relationships within the legal department, across all business units, and with external stakeholders.
• Research and respond to inquiries related to compliance matters, including EU/UK GDPR, US privacy laws such as the CCPA, PIPEDA, and other privacy-related matters.
• Undertake other reasonable duties as required.

Requirements

• Possess 2-4 years of legal experience in privacy and data protection in a private practice and/or in-house environment (including experience with EU/UK GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, COPPA, etc.).
• Must be a member in good standing with an applicable bar (Canada, US, or UK).
• Experience working on contracts and commercial transactions, especially negotiating data processing agreements.
• Ability to juggle multiple matters at once and prioritize accordingly.
• Excellent written/verbal communication and advocacy skills.
• Experience in the digital advertising or technology industries is a strong asset but not a requirement.

Skills

• Privacy law
• Data protection
• Information security law
• Contract negotiation
• Legal research
• Compliance
• Risk mitigation
• Communication skills
• Advocacy skills

Location

• Toronto, Canada
• London, UK

Work Type

• Remote
• Onsite

Experience Level

• 2-4 years

Education Level

• Member in good standing with an applicable bar (Canada, US, or UK)

Salary/Compensations

• $130,000 to $180,000 CAD

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days
• Flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave
• Annual well-being allowance
• Fitness discounts
• Group wellness activities
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program
• One day of volunteer time off per year
• Donation-matching program
• Bi-weekly town halls
• Regular community-led team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning

About the Company

• Index Exchange is a globally trusted independent supply-side platform, powering intelligent decisioning that maximizes value for media owners.
• As a neutral, conflict-free exchange, we help media owners connect more effectively with the world’s leading brands, enabling marketers to achieve stronger performance while advancing efficiency, transparency, and quality across the programmatic ecosystem.
• With more than 20 years of industry leadership, we continue to accelerate the ad technology evolution by applying intelligence closer to the impression and reducing waste across the supply chain.
• Through radically transparent practices and exceptional standards, we deliver long-term value for media owners, marketers, and partners worldwide.
• Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work, offering opportunities to feed ambition, lean into trust and transparency, and feel genuine support from colleagues.
• The company is built on core values and prides itself on independence and openness in both technology and teams.
• A diverse and inclusive culture celebrates unique differences to drive Index forward.
• There are more than 550 Indexers globally dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace.

Equal Opportunity

• Index Exchange is committed to equal employment opportunities.
• We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
• Diversity is the human experience.
• Index welcomes those who show grit, passion, and humility.
• Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.
• Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.