Position Title: Assistant General Counsel (Dublin / London)

Entity: Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited or Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Dublin, Ireland or London, England 

Summary/Overview

Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited/Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited and its affiliates (“KBRA”) are seeking an Assistant General Counsel to join its Legal Department. You will be enthusiastic, highly motivated, have a strong work ethic, and be well-equipped to work closely with other members of the Legal Department on privacy, data protection, and contract-related matters. The position will be based out of our Dublin or London office.

About the Team

The Legal Department handles all of KBRA’s legal matters with the exception of ratings. The Legal Department works with analysts, compliance, finance, technology, and senior management across the company.

About the Job

As Assistant General Counsel, your responsibilities will primarily focus on privacy and data protection issues as well as contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiation. Specific responsibilities may include:

• Advising on international data privacy and cybersecurity laws/regulations (including GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA/CPRA, etc.).
• Assisting in the enhancement, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity policies and practices across KBRA.
• Conducting and advising on privacy impact assessments, legitimate interest assessments and assisting with vendor and third-party due diligence, and issues related to cross-border data transfers.
• Supporting records of processing activities.
• Assisting with incident/ breach response, coordinating with Technology, Information Security, Legal, and Compliance and other internal stakeholders.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and clauses relevant to privacy, including data processing agreements.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating vendor and service provider contracts, client engagement letters, subscription agreements, and technology/service agreements.
• Providing privacy‐related input into contract review workflows and advise internal teams on risk allocation and compliance.
• Monitoring and tracking developments in privacy, data protection and AI, including enforcement, guidance updates, and standards in Ireland, UK, EU, and other relevant jurisdictions.
• Reviewing and updating privacy notices and policies.
• Keeping up to date with technology trends, including AI, and technology in use at KBRA and how they interact with privacy laws.
• Liaising with external regulators, legal advisors, and auditors as needed.
• Delivering training and awareness programs on privacy and data protection for internal teams.
• Acting as a resource for internal teams with respect to privacy-related and other legal questions.
• Contributing to corporate governance on privacy matters, including preparing board or committee materials where required.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Compliance, Technology, Marketing, Business Development), as well as external counsel and regulators, as needed.

About You

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• A qualifying law degree (or equivalent) and are admitted to practise as a solicitor in Ireland or England & Wales with, or eligible to obtain, a current practising certificate. Exceptionally, highly experienced privacy professionals with significant legal advisory experience may also be considered.
• 4-8 years post-qualification experience, specifically with hands-on exposure to privacy/data protection law.
• Strong experience with drafting, negotiating, and reviewing contracts, especially with privacy-sensitive clauses (DPAs, vendor agreements, client contracts, etc.).
• Demonstrated knowledge of GDPR (EU & UK), cross-border data transfer mechanisms (e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, etc.), ePrivacy laws, vendor/third party risk, and cybersecurity basics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to explain legal and technical privacy concepts to non-legal stakeholders.
• Strong research, analytical, organisational, and project management skills, with great attention to detail. Able to manage multiple matters/tracks simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Experience working in regulated environments is an advantage (financial services, tech, data / analytics, etc.).
• IAPP certification (CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, or equivalent) is a plus.

Benefits

• A flexible hybrid work schedule – Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays in the office
• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• Pension plan
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program

About Us

KBRA (Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC) is a full-service credit rating agency registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an NRSRO. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a CRA with the European Securities and Markets Authority. Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited is registered as a CRA with the UK Financial Conduct Authority pursuant to the Temporary Registration Regime. In addition, KBRA is designated as a designated rating organization by the Ontario Securities Commission for issuers of asset-backed securities to file a short form prospectus or shelf prospectus. KBRA is also recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a Credit Rating Provider. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe is located at 2nd Floor, One George's Quay Plaza, George's Quay, Dublin 2 D02 E440.  Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK is located at Augustine House, Austin Friars, London, EC2N 2HA, United Kingdom.

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• This is a fixed-term contract opening until the end of 2026**

About the role

Lead the delivery of HR compliance and policy frameworks across the organisation, ensuring alignment with employment legislation and regulatory requirements. The role will focus on building strong compliance foundations across the employee lifecycle, enabling the business to operate confidently while proactively managing risk.

You will report to the Global Head of HR and work closely with the following stakeholders:

• Head of Corporate Services
• Chief Compliance Officer
• Deputy General Counsel
• HR Leadership Team
• Regional HR Leads

Scope & Impact

• Global remit across multiple jurisdictions
• Direct impact on organisational risk, governance, and reputation
• Supports delivery of HRLT priorities and compliance strategy
• Builds foundational HR compliance capability across the organisation

Key responsibilities

• Deliver HR compliance across the employee lifecycle, ensuring alignment with employment legislation and regulatory requirements (e.g. ERA, legislative change, data protection, SOX).
• Lead the development and implementation of HR policies and standards, ensuring consistency across regions while reflecting local requirements.
• Proactively identify and manage compliance risks, including horizon scanning for legislative and regulatory change.
• Act as a key interface between HR, Legal, and Compliance, ensuring aligned and practical approaches to risk management.
• Embed compliant practices into HR and manager activity, providing clear guidance, training, and tools.
• Oversee compliance monitoring, reporting, and audit activity, providing clear visibility of risks and areas for action.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in HR compliance, employment law, or HR risk/governance.
• Solid understanding of employment legislation and regulatory environments (UK essential, US desirable).
• Experience developing and implementing HR policies and frameworks in a global organization.
• Ability to translate complex regulation into practical, business-friendly HR solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management across HR, Legal, and Compliance.
• Comfortable operating in a matrixed, multi-jurisdictional environment.

About us

At Inizio, we're a global team driven by a shared purpose: to reimagine health. Formed in 2022 through the coming together of Ashfield and Huntsworth, we unite decades of experience with cutting-edge capabilities to deliver impactful solutions across the commercialization journey - from discovery to post-launch. Our global network of over 10,000 experts operates across 50 countries, supporting clients with strategic insight, medical excellence, creative engagement, and real-world delivery. We work with the world's leading health and life sciences businesses to solve complex challenges and drive meaningful outcomes for our clients and patients.

What sets Inizio apart is our people - and we believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive. Here, you're encouraged to reimagine your possibilities: to grow, to be curious and to make real change happen. It's a place where your individuality is valued, your development is supported, and your ambition is celebrated. If you're ready to push boundaries and accelerate your career, Inizio is the best place to be.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion. We aim to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

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Team: Legal & Compliance | Location: Remote (EMEA - UKI or Ireland)

Why this role matters:

HubSpot’s partner ecosystem is one of the most important growth engines for our business. We’re hiring a Senior Counsel to partner with Ecosystem and Partner Programs teams to build legal frameworks that let partners scale with HubSpot — safely, predictably, and creatively. If you like shaping commercial programs, working with partners, negotiating complex technology deals, and solving the legal challenges that come with disruptive technology and HubSpot’s rapidly evolving ecosystem, this role is for you.

 In this role, you’ll get to:

• Partner closely with HubSpot’s ecosystem leadership and other cross-functional teams to provide first-line support to our Go-to-Market (GTM) business teams, focusing on Partner Programs, Partner Sales, Partner Marketing & Enablement. This includes leading a range of partner program initiatives, maintaining and iterating on the program legal framework, negotiating technology transactions, advising on deal structure, and working closely with our programs strategy, sales, marketing and product leaders to meet partnership, programs and company goals.
• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of complex commercial and technology agreements with sophisticated enterprise partners, including strategic partnership agreements, intellectual property licenses and data privacy agreements.
• Provide practical legal guidance around building and evolving a variety of partner programs and associated legal frameworks
• Assist in developing overall strategy for the GTM legal practice area
• Work with a strong team of legal professionals to help guide our rapidly growing ecosystem, channel and GTM teams 
• Work closely with partner programs leadership to develop guidance and resources for more consistent and scalable legal support 
• Collaborate with other business and legal teams including Product, Privacy, Security, Compliance, Vendor Management, Commercial Transactions, Risk, Finance, Marketing and others to align guidance and evaluate risks and opportunities 

We are looking for people who: 

• Are qualified to practice law in Ireland and/or the United Kingdom 
• Have 4-6 years of post-qualification experience, preferably with in-house technology company 
• Experience working with partner, sales and marketing teams and ability to provide practical legal guidance around building and evolving different partner programs and associated legal frameworks
• Have experience with review and negotiation of technology contracts and feel comfortable running an independent negotiation process
• Familiarity with with SaaS distribution, reseller and partner programs, including issues such as price structures, order management and general roles and responsibilities within the channel
• Have a working knowledge of global privacy and data protection laws and frameworks, with the ability to identify potential issues, provide practical, business-oriented guidance on matters involving privacy considerations and know when to escalate issues to the Privacy practice group as needed
• Foundational understanding of intellectual property protection and management, especially as it relates to channel and partners, is a plus
• Are able to handle a broad range of strategic matters and work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced, and transparent environment
• Are able to make decisions and provide advice/explain the rationale for the decision to a curious and empowered team
• Develop strong relationships based on trust with team members
• Effectively handle high-volume and prioritization of tasks and projects 
• Ability to grow in an ambiguous, quickly changing environment and desire to learn quickly
• Are a clear and practical communicator with non-legal stakeholders
• Have superior organizational skills and can project manage
• Have fluency in English
• Are passionate about the values in the HubSpot Culture Code

We know the confidence gap and impostor syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

If you need accommodations or assistance due to a disability, please reach out to us using this form.

At HubSpot, we value both flexibility and connection. Whether you’re a Remote employee or work from the Office, we want you to start your journey here by building strong connections with your team and peers. If you are joining our Engineering team, you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding. If you join our broader Product team, you’ll also attend other in-person events, such as your Product Group Summit and other gatherings, to continue building on those connections.

If you require an accommodation due to travel limitations or other reasons, please inform your recruiter during the hiring process. We are committed to supporting candidates who may need alternative arrangements

Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Germany Applicants: (m/f/d) - link to HubSpot's Career Diversity page here.

India Applicants: link to HubSpot India's equal opportunity policy here.

About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers. 

At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer-obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow.

We’re building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.

Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.

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An overview of this role

As a Senior People Compliance Specialist (EMEA), you'll partner with GitLab to manage compliant works council engagements across Germany (Mitbestimmung and information rights), the Netherlands (adviesrecht and instemmingsrecht), and France (CSE consultation procedures). You'll lead end-to-end processes, from preparing agendas and information packages to coordinating translations, documentation, and stakeholder inputs, so teams can move through organizational changes with clear timelines and strong governance. In this role, you'll partner closely with People Business Partners, Legal (including Employment Counsel), and business leaders to build trusted relationships, responding to information requests, and reduce compliance and operational risk through standardized guidance, training, and repeatable processes. Over your first year, key outcomes include improving process efficiency, strengthening recordkeeping and data retention practices, and becoming a go-to advisor for works council requirements and compliance across the region.

What you'll do

• Build, drive and iterate our works council engagements, processes and administration across Germany, the Netherlands, and France, ensuring compliance with information, consultation, and co-determination requirements, legal timelines, works agreements, and locally agreed service levels
• Prepare meeting agendas and comprehensive information packages for recurring works council meetings and consultations, including documentation management, translations, and stakeholder coordination
• Partner with People Business Partners, the legal team and the business to build and maintain high-trust, productive relationships with works council members through responsive, consistent support
• Collaborate with Legal, People Business Partners, and business leaders to plan and execute compliant consultation approaches.
• Advise and educate managers and stakeholders on works council requirements, timelines, and procedural best practices, including guidance for sensitive and complex topics
• Manage multiple concurrent requests and consultations independently, prioritizing work to ensure timely completion and clear communication across time zones
• Develop and maintain standardized processes, templates, training materials, and guidance to improve consistency and efficiency in works council operations
• Track, report, and maintain consultation records and metrics, responding to works council information requests and ensuring audit readiness and data retention compliance
• Partner with Employment Counsel, Legal and Privacy team on laws and regulation updates
• Act as subject matter expert on HR compliance and act in an advisory role to People Team centers of excellence, cross-functional stakeholders, and clients
• Proactively address processes to mitigate compliance and operational risk by recommending and prioritizing changes to support the business

What you'll bring

• Experience coordinating works council processes, employee relations, or labor relations in Europe, including managing inform, consult, and co-determination obligations and timelines
• Working knowledge of works council processes and requirements in at least one of Germany, the Netherlands, or France, with the ability to quickly build expertise across additional countries
• Fluency in English and proficiency in French; additional language skills are useful in a multi-country environment
• Understanding of European labor law, including information and consultation rights and common approaches to compliant stakeholder engagement
• Experience partnering with Legal, People Business Partners, and business leaders on consultation approaches for organizational changes and other sensitive matters
• Strong project management skills, including prioritizing multiple requests, maintaining clear documentation, and driving work to timely completion in a remote setting
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences, including preparing agendas, information packages, and training materials, and handling confidential information with sound judgment

About the team

The People team helps GitLab operate responsibly and consistently by building and running people-related processes that support our all-remote, globally distributed workforce. In this role, you'll work closely with People Business Partners, Employment Counsel, Legal, Privacy, and business leaders across EMEA. The team works asynchronously across time zones, with a focus on building strong working relationships,  clear documentation and communication, reliable timelines, and practical guidance that reduces risk while enabling the business to move forward with organizational changes. For more on how we work, see [Link: Team Handbook Page].

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Here’s a summary of the role 

In this role, you will turn complex, multi-product capabilities into clear, persona-led stories that show senior decision-makers exactly how Diligent helps them manage governance, risk and compliance with AI-driven insight. You’ll own solution-level messaging and narratives for key personas, then translate them into campaigns, sales plays and launch programs that drive pipeline, win rates and cross-sell across our portfolio. You’ll work directly with Product, Product Marketing, Sales and Content to make Diligent the AI company in GRC and a growth engine for your business unit. 

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) 

• Develop persona-specific, solution-level messaging grounded in market trends, buyer challenges, our products and the business outcomes your personas care about most. 

• Serve as the central point of contact for your assigned business unit, aligning with Product Management and Product Marketing from roadmap through to go-to-market execution. 

• Partner with Content and Demand Generation to define persona-led campaigns, including campaign briefs, core narratives and landing-page messaging that drive engagement and conversion. 

• Lead and support product and solution launches by applying proven launch frameworks and ensuring clear, differentiated solution-level positioning. 

• Activate analyst research and market insights into compelling stories, content and sales enablement that improve confidence, consistency and win rates. 

• Collaborate closely with Sales and Enablement to deliver persona-specific narratives, use-case stories and repeatable sales plays that help teams open, progress and close opportunities – including cross-sell into our existing customer base. 

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview 

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise B2B SaaS marketing, with a strong background in Product Marketing and/or Solutions Marketing. 

• Proven track record developing persona-based messaging and positioning, ideally at both product and solution / portfolio levels. 

• Experience launching products, programs or major campaigns end to end, collaborating across Product, Sales and Marketing. 

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technology into clear, outcome-oriented stories for senior personas (e.g., legal, compliance, audit, risk, CIO). 

• Strong storytelling and communication skills – you’re comfortable building narratives, slides and briefs, and presenting them to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners. 

• High comfort level working in a fast-moving, evolving environment, with the confidence to prioritize, push back constructively and define process where needed. 

• Experience messaging about AI and using AI tools in your work (for research, content, analysis or experimentation). 

It would be great if you had these too, but we’ll support you if you don’t 

• Experience in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) or adjacent risk/compliance markets. 

• Background marketing to Boards of Directors, General Counsel or other senior legal and risk leaders. 

• Familiarity with product marketing frameworks (e.g., SiriusDecisions, Pragmatic / Practical Marketing) and analyst relations or working with industry reports. 

• Experience building integrated campaigns in partnership with Demand Generation, Field Marketing and Sales. 

• Comfort presenting to customers, at events and in virtual / in-person sessions, including tailoring your narrative for different audiences. 

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Through its FinTech business line, Toast offers its customers and their guests access to a wide range of financial products and services, including payment processing, commercial loans, banking products (high-yield savings accounts, debit cards, and more), purchase financing options, and more! 

As we expand our product line internationally, we are hiring an experienced, mid-level attorney with knowledge of multi-jurisdictional payments and banking regulations to join our Legal team. In this role, you will provide transactional and regulatory legal support to a passionate and enthusiastic team of business partners around the world, and help design creative and compliant commercial and consumer financial products for restaurants, staff, and guests. As an International FinTech Counsel, you will have the ability to lend subject matter expertise on existing products and expose you to totally new ones, and you’ll do everything in a fun and collaborative environment that values your insights, creative thinking, and intellectual curiosity. This position reports to Toast’s Assistant General Counsel, FinTech.

 A day in the life (Responsibilities) 

• Advise a wide range of cross-functional business stakeholders on multi-national financial laws and regulations to facilitate the fast-paced expansion of Toast’s payments and banking products and services into new international territories
• Draft and negotiate strategic partnership agreements and other commercial contracts with financial institutions, third-party providers of financial services (including payment processors), card networks, and merchants
• Research, analyze, and respond to legal and regulatory questions regarding a variety of financial products and services across multiple geographies in various stages of roll-out
• Represent Legal on cross-functional teams to help design and implement cutting-edge financial products, identify creative solutions to unique use cases and escalated issues, and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, partner contracts, and card brand rules
• Review multi-channel advertising materials for compliance with applicable laws and best practices, and provide feedback and guidance to Marketing team stakeholders

  What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• A degree from an ABA-accredited law school, or the equivalent in your jurisdiction, and meet all professional and legal requirements necessary to practice in-house law in your jurisdiction
• 5+ years of legal experience advising corporate clients on international financial products and services. Must have experience with financial services regulations in one or more of the following locations: UK, Ireland, Canada, and/or Australia
• Experience leading negotiations and drafting commercial agreements and consumer terms of service within the financial services industry
• Strong knowledge of financial laws and regulations and best practices across multiple international territories, including applicable jurisdictional laws related to banking products, consumer protection, extensions of credit, flows of funds (including money transmission), and card association and payment network rules
• Experience overseeing the expansion of numerous financial products and services into new global territories and ability to manage multiple implementations at once
• Subject matter expertise in the payments space and experience with banking products *Mortgage + auto financing, cryptocurrency, and investment products are not applicable
• Comfort and experience working in a hyper-fast paced environment, and the ability to role with change

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.