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About the Role

This senior legal role focuses on product, technology, and regulatory compliance for Toyota Connected Europe (TCEU), which develops connected-vehicle, data, digital, and mobility products and services across Europe. The role involves understanding evolving regulations like the EU Data Act and EU AI Act, translating them into practical actions, and working with various business teams throughout the product lifecycle. It requires a hands-on approach to interpreting legislation and ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

Advise Product, Engineering, Design and other teams on legal and regulatory requirements affecting TCEU’s products and services, from initial concept and design through deployment and ongoing operation.
Lead or support legal analysis and implementation of relevant regulatory requirements, including the EU Data Act, EU AI Act, GDPR and other applicable data, digital, AI, cybersecurity, consumer and product-related regulation.
Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear and practical guidance, product requirements, controls, governance processes and documentation that can be understood and implemented by technical and business teams.
Carry out regulatory applicability and impact assessments for new and existing products, services, technologies and use cases, helping the business identify legal obligations, risks and required mitigation.
Promote a compliance-by-design approach, ensuring that regulatory considerations are identified early in the product development lifecycle rather than addressed only at the point of launch.
Support TCEU’s governance of AI systems and AI-enabled products and services, including assessment of regulatory requirements, risk classification, transparency, documentation and appropriate controls.
Monitor relevant UK and EU legal and regulatory developments and assess their potential impact on TCEU, Toyota group companies and the wider connected-mobility environment.
Work closely with Data Privacy, Information Security, Compliance and other specialists to ensure that overlapping regulatory requirements are addressed consistently and efficiently.
Advise on technology and commercial agreements where appropriate, particularly where contracts involve significant data, AI, software, intellectual property, cybersecurity or regulatory considerations.
Develop practical guidance, playbooks, training and awareness materials to help Product, Engineering and other teams understand their regulatory responsibilities.
Coordinate with external counsel and Toyota group legal and compliance teams where specialist advice or group-wide alignment is required.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of TCEU’s wider Legal & Compliance framework, including the use of technology and AI to improve regulatory monitoring, legal analysis and compliance processes.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer with approximately 5+ years’ post-qualification experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
Significant experience advising on technology, digital products, data or regulatory matters, either in-house or in private practice.
Working knowledge of key emerging regulatory frameworks such as the EU Data Act and EU AI Act, together with relevant data protection requirements.
Experience working directly with Product, Engineering, Technology, Data or similar cross-functional teams.
Ability to analyse new and evolving areas of regulation where established guidance or precedent may be limited.
Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to explain complex regulatory issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong judgement, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple regulatory and legal priorities independently.
Experience working within a technology, software, SaaS, automotive, connected-vehicle or mobility business.
Experience with regulatory areas such as cybersecurity, connected products, digital services, consumer law, product safety or emerging technology regulation.
Experience developing compliance-by-design, product governance or regulatory change management frameworks.
Experience advising on AI governance, including the legal assessment of AI systems, products or business use cases.
Experience working within an international corporate group or matrix organisation and coordinating legal or regulatory positions across multiple jurisdictions.
Experience delivering training and practical regulatory guidance to Product, Engineering or other business teams.

Skills

Product Compliance
Regulatory Compliance
Technology Law
Data Regulation
AI Regulation
EU Data Act
EU AI Act
GDPR
Cybersecurity
Digital Products
Commercial Agreements
Intellectual Property
Product Safety
Emerging Technology Regulation
AI Governance
Legal Analysis
Risk Assessment
Compliance Framework Development
Training Delivery

Location

Farringdon, London, United Kingdom

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years post-qualification experience

Education Level

Qualified Lawyer

About the Company

TCEU was founded in London in 2019 to process and derive insights from the connected data produced by Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Europe.
In 2026, with almost 3 million connected cars on the road and over 2 billion journeys processed each year, TCEU continues to scale its software, data and engineering capabilities across Europe.