Junior Privacy & Ai Counsel

Overview

About Us

TravelPerk is a global travel and expense management platform. Its all-in-one platform gives travelers the freedom they want whilst providing companies with the control they need. The result saves time, money, and hassle for everyone. TravelPerk has industry-leading travel inventory alongside powerful management features, 24 / 7 customer support, state-of-the-art technology, and consumer-grade design. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, we’ve grown to over 1,800 people across Europe and North America. In 2022 we became a unicorn and in 2025 we raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, increasing our valuation to $2.7 billion. We’ve been recognized as a great place to work and a fast-growing tech company, with clients including Wise, Red Bull, GetYourGuide, and Aesop. This isn’t a typical legal role.

As Junior Privacy & AI Counsel at TravelPerk, you’ll help shape the future of privacy and AI in travel and spend management tech. You will work at the crossroads of cutting-edge technology, evolving privacy and AI governance regulations, and a customer-focused and innovative legal team. This role supports TravelPerk’s move toward an AI-first strategy.

Your work will help earn and keep our customers’ trust while empowering teams with clear, scalable, and future-ready privacy and AI governance that drives TravelPerk’s growth. The company will provide resources to help consolidate a world-class data privacy and responsible AI culture and to grow your profile as a leading professional in privacy and AI governance.

This role sits within TravelPerk’s legal and privacy team and reports to the Senior Privacy Manager, with close collaboration with Privacy & AI Counsel & DPO.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to resolving global legal and regulatory privacy and AI governance matters, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations (GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, etc.).
• Anticipate relevant regulatory changes and help teams navigate them while maintaining compliance.
• Investigate, implement, and refine privacy and AI governance policies, leveraging technology and process-minded approaches to improve efficiency and speed-to-market.
• Develop close relationships with stakeholders across product, engineering, security, customer care, people, and marketing to align privacy and AI governance outcomes with business needs.
• Assist with product launches and updates to ensure they comply with privacy by design and responsible AI standards.
• Lead and improve handling of impact assessments, data subject requests, risk reviews, incident response, PET adoption, and related activities.
• Monitor compliance through audits, assessments, and vendor evaluations.
• Track and report privacy and AI metrics, trends, and risks to senior management.
• Contribute to training, communications, and other resources to strengthen TravelPerk’s privacy and AI culture.
• Proactively identify areas of risk and collaborate with teams to mitigate them effectively.

Qualifications & capabilities

Where will the role take you?

We value growth and development for lawyers; the role aims to build exceptional experience in a fast-scaling, global SaaS business. The next level up from Junior Privacy & AI Counsel is Privacy & AI Counsel, but we are not hiring for that layer now. TravelPerk will offer latitude to deliver outcomes without micromanagement.

The successful candidate will enjoy a competitive salary, stock options, and a culture of high impact over long hours.

Our Benefits

How We Work

Our vision is for TravelPerk to be the platform for human connection in real life (IRL). We follow an IRL-first approach to work, with most teams in the office three days a week (customer care roles may be up to five days). Being within commuting distance of our hubs is important. We prioritise experience and potential over formal credentials.

TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base and is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants regardless of appearance, background, or other factors.

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