Sr Privacy Counsel in London

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

What we do

We have a well established Legal department comprising approximately 65 employees, with our Privacy team in particular, having representation across the globe.

What you’ll do

• Exercise exceptional judgement to advise The Trade Desk team and contribute to the overall success of the business.
• Structure, draft, review, and negotiate data protection terms in a variety of commercial agreements including master service agreements, DPAs, and data supplier agreements.
• Identify, research, analyse, and advise teams on a wide range of data privacy issues and risks.
• Keep abreast of evolving privacy laws that may affect the company globally.
• Work hands‑on with business and product teams to support the implementation of privacy risk management and compliance.
• Continually improve our legal processes to help us scale globally with a consistent but locally relevant approach.

Who you are

• A UK qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 6 years’ post‑qualified experience having trained and qualified at an internationally recognised law firm.
• Experience in advising clients on privacy matters and legislation, consumer protection, and global privacy laws & regulations (such as EU/UK GDPR and other international data protection frameworks).
• Effective communicator, with the ability to work closely with legal team colleagues, as well as business and product team members.
• Superior analytical skills with a creative and pragmatic problem‑solving approach.
• Excellent legal skills, including meaningful experience in structuring, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex agreements.
• Strong commitment to providing responsible, timely, and top‑quality client service with superior work product.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (sense of humor is a big plus).
• Background in advertising and/or digital media is preferred.

Equal Opportunity

The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.