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Senior Commercial & Privacy Counsel

Dublin, Ireland

Where we Work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills

  • Exceptional business judgement and a proven ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in fast-moving deal environments.

  • Executive-level communication skills: able to distill complex issues into clear, actionable guidance and influence stakeholders from SMB to large enterprise and C-suite.

  • A track record of using approved AI tools to increase legal productivity, and staying current on AI governance obligations.

About this role

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Commercial & Privacy Counsel to join our growing Commercial Legal team. You will serve as a strategic legal partner to our go-to-market teams — driving complex deal negotiations, building scalable contracting frameworks, and fuelling our expansion with enterprise clients and organisations across all market segments.

This is a high-impact, highly autonomous role for a commercially sharp, privacy-fluent lawyer who thrives in fast-paced, technology-forward environments. You will guide sophisticated transactions across diverse industries and jurisdictions, providing strategic counsel on the commercial and regulatory dimensions of AI platform deployment.

What you’ll be doing  

  • Serve as a key strategic advisor to Sales leadership on complex commercial transactions, bringing sound judgement and a solutions-first approach to every deal.

  • Lead and close sophisticated negotiations across the full range of commercial agreements — MSAs, SaaS subscriptions, PaaS, SOWs, professional services agreements, reseller and channel agreements, and government and public sector contracts.

  • Design and implement scalable contract frameworks, playbooks, and processes to support a high-velocity sales organisation.

  • Partner with Sales, Deal Desk, Partner & Alliances, Finance, Security, Product, and other business units to facilitate reviews, drive sales enablement, and contribute to continuous process improvement.

  • Serve as the internal lead on data privacy matters, embedding privacy expertise into commercial deals and raising data privacy awareness across the organisation.

  • Provide mentorship and support to other members of the legal team, supervising and coaching junior lawyers on commercial matters.

  • Foster trusted relationships with enterprise clients, external partners, advisors, and regulatory bodies across the region.

  • Anticipate emerging legal and regulatory developments affecting AI and technology and provide proactive strategic guidance to cross-functional leadership.

  • Develop training materials and deliver education to Sales, channel, and internal teams on contract terms, commercial risks, and legal process.

What you’ll have  

  • A law degree and qualification to practise in an EMEA jurisdiction.

  • At least 8 years of relevant legal experience supporting commercial transactions across diverse client segments and industries.

  • Significant experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, with a strong intellectual property law and technology transactions background preferred.

  • Experience with cross-border transactions and multi-jurisdictional contracting spanning EU, UK, APAC, and North America.

  • Strong understanding of AI technology and governance trends; data privacy expertise spanning GDPR, UK GDPR, CPPA, and key international regimes; and working knowledge of ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar frameworks.

  • Experience leading and mentoring lawyers, with the ability to operate independently in fast-paced, evolving technology environments.

  • Fluency in English; additional European language skills are a plus.

  • In-house experience at a leading technology company with EMEA operations.

  • Experience negotiating privacy and AI-specific or machine learning-related commercial agreements.

  • Public sector and regulated industry contracting experience.

  • Multi-jurisdictional experience across European and international markets.

 

Posting Date: 25 June 2026
Application Window: 2 weeks
We anticipate the application window will be open until 9 July 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.

 

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