Privacy Lawyer

What you will be doing

• Advisor to tech entrepreneurs: As a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs and decision makers, you will provide fast-growing startups and tech companies with the expertise and counsel they need to achieve their vision. 
• Expert: You will further develop your core expertise in data protection, and any other field relevant to tech companies. 
• Leader: We encourage personal growth by building leadership skills in real-world settings. You will lead projects, manage multi-disciplinary teams and get the chance to build up your own privacy team. 
• Business (wo)man: You will spot growth opportunities, develop new products and help extend LEXR’s customer base through marketing and business development activities. 

What is required

• Legal education: Our work is international, but or privacy practice is focused on the DACH region, so a completed Swiss, German or Austrian legal education is a must; bar exam, LL.M., or knowhow of other jurisdictions a plus. 
• Language skills: You will be working with both local and international customers and proficient English is a must, but most matters will pertain to the Swiss market, for which you need fluent German skills. Ideally, you also speak French. 
• Experience: You must have already worked as a business lawyer or in-house counsel and can demonstrate work experience and knowledge in data protection law.  
• Growth mindset: We’re looking for lawyers that see opportunities despite being trained to focus on risks – strike the right balance and be driven for continuous personal and professional growth.  
• Attention to detail: Providing actionable legal advice goes much farther than reciting the law. At LEXR, we dig deeper and work harder to provide the best solutions to our customers, which requires diligence and attention to the specifics of every case.  
• Business sense: We advise businesses and, in order to provide actionable and valuable legal advice to businesses, you need to have at least a basic understanding of how the business world works. 
• Team spirit: You will be working side by side with customers and team members alike. You are humble, positive, open, and enjoy getting to know what makes people tick. 
• Tech affinity: We are 99% digital and constantly test out new tools to improve our work environment and customer experience. You do not have to know how to code, but understanding and adapting new technology easily is a must.  

What you will get

• Exciting work: We do much more than automating the mundane part of legal. You will advise the tech companies of the future, be it in robotics, blockchain, AI, big data analytics, SaaS or venture capital. You will work with the entrepreneurs and decision makers directly and your advice has an immediate impact on your customers. 
• “Inhouse” experience: You will have the opportunity to be a vital part of the team of some of our fast-scaling customers, potentially even in the role of a temporary inhouse counsel.  
• Become an entrepreneur: We don’t believe in micro management. Every LEXR team member is encouraged to take ownership of their work, bring in their own ideas, and have a positive impact.  
• Team spirit and open structures: When you join LEXR, you become part of a driven, self-motivated, stimulating and welcoming team that works together to achieve amazing things. We foster comradery with regular team events and trips to startup hubs (we’ve already been to Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Swiss alps). Also, expect your voice to be heard from day one and flat hierarchies. 
• Competitive pay: You will receive a highly competitive, above market-standard salary. 
• Location independence: We offer state-of-the art offices in the heart of Zurich, but also a fully digitized work infrastructure to set you free to change your work setting from time to time. Free www.outsite.co membership is included. 
• Training and development: A legal career is all about continuously striving to learn, grow and get better. We invest in our people with regular training sessions and courses that encourage them to thrive.  

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