Legal Counsel

What to Expect

As Legal Counsel – Data & Technology, you will be a key legal partner across Zero Motorcycles, with privacy, data and technology at the heart of the role. You will act as an embedded business lawyer supporting Zero Motorcycles’ connected electric motorcycles, as well as the wider organisation, helping Zero Motorcycles operate and grow with confidence with a strong data and technology foundation. 

Data and privacy will be a core part of the role from day one, including helping strengthen and maintain Zero Motorcycles’ underlying privacy and data governance framework. Beyond that core remit, the role is deliberately broad. Depending on your experience and interests, you may also take day-to-day ownership of one or more adjacent areas from the outset, such as IP, product-related Legal work or selected commercial matters. The exact mix can be shaped around the successful candidate and the needs of the business.  

We are interested in a range of profiles. You may already bring experience beyond data and privacy, or you may be looking for a role where you can combine a strong data foundation with broader in-house Legal ownership. What matters most is genuine depth in data and privacy, a privacy-by-design mindset, sharp commercial judgment and the appetite to operate broadly and take ownership. 

We also want someone who is genuinely interested in how technology can make Legal better, and able to contribute with AI or legal technology enabled solutions to improve the scalability of the global legal team. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role in a lean and evolving international legal function. 

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key legal partner on data and privacy for our connected products and digital services, including rider data, apps, telematics, diagnostics, connectivity features and related customer-facing functionality. 

• Support product, engineering and digital teams on privacy-by-design, embedding data and privacy thinking early in development rather than as an after-the-fact review, enabling the business to move, not acting as a compliance reporter.

• Advise on data compliance, data use cases, digital terms, DPAs, data-sharing arrangements and customer-facing product and data documentation.

• Help build, implement and maintain our privacy and data governance foundations, including areas such as records of processing, DPIAs, international transfer assessments, data subject rights, privacy notices, retention, vendor governance and related processes.

• Advise on the legal and governance aspects of cybersecurity and product-data security, working closely with Product, Engineering, IT and Security stakeholders on ownership, incident response, regulatory requirements and escalation.

• Advise on international data flows, data localisation, cross-border vendor and technology arrangements, and related regulatory risks affecting connected products.

• Support general business privacy matters in a practical, scalable way, working with other teams (e.g. IT, IT Security, HR, marketing) and engaging external counsel where appropriate.

• Take day-to-day ownership of one or more additional Legal areas depending on your experience, interests and the needs of the business. This may include IP, product-related Legal work or selected commercial matters, with the Global Head of Legal remaining involved for material or strategic matters.

• Support and, where appropriate, lead interactions with relevant regulatory and supervisory authorities on data protection, cybersecurity and connected-product matters, including coordinating responses, managing information requests and working with external counsel where specialist or local support is required.

• Coordinate external specialist support on data, technology and other matters within your areas of responsibility where local or specialist expertise is required.

• Build practical, scalable guidance and ways of working so Legal stays close to the business and internal stakeholders receive clear, commercially sensible support.

• Contribute to the development of LegalOps within Zero Motorcycles, where Legal work can be standardised, automated, self-served or supported through technology.

• Support horizon scanning for relevant EU and international regulatory changes affecting the mobility, manufacturing and technology sectors, particularly in relation to privacy, data, AI, cybersecurity and connected products.