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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. The ideal candidate is creative, solution-focused, possesses strong business sense with uncompromising legal standards, and has a great sense of humor and an exceptional work ethic.

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.
• Enjoy juggling multiple matters at once and prioritizing accordingly.
• Have 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
• Data Protection
• Information Security
• Legal Advice
• Contract Negotiation
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Mitigation
• Privacy Reviews
• Compliance Programs
• Impact Assessments
• Certifications
• Audits
• Data Subject Requests
• Policy Development
• Incident Response
• EU/UK GDPR
• CCPA
• PIPEDA
• COPPA

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)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules.
• Competitive retirement matching plans.
• Equity packages.
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents.
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities.
• Employee assistance program.
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance.
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program.
• Bi-weekly town halls and 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. You'll be able to feed your ambition, lean into trust and transparency, and feel genuine support from your colleagues.
• We’re built on our core values.
• We pride ourselves on our independence and openness, not only in our technology, but in our teams, too.
• Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.
• We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, and we’re looking for talented professionals to help take us to the next level.
• Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities.
• As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

Equal Opportunity

• At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them.
• As such, we are 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.
• Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience.
• For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.
• Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.
• If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you.
• Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.