Senior Legal Counsel- Privacy
Aristocrat is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel specialising in Privacy to join the Privacy Legal team. This role involves supporting the development and operation of gaming products by working at the intersection of product development, data protection, and player experience.
The successful candidate will provide high-quality legal and compliance advice, demonstrating strong commercial judgement. The role requires an individual capable of tackling complex challenges and providing embedded support to product and engineering teams throughout the game lifecycle.
- Provide embedded legal support to product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design and default principles across the game lifecycle.
- Advise on the development and launch of new features involving player data, personalisation, live ops, and online services.
- Conduct and guide Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and risk assessments.
- Offer recommendations regarding conformity with GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy directives, and relevant European privacy policies.
- Interpret and operationalise regulatory requirements into practical product mentorship.
- Track and offer advice regarding upcoming EU/UK developments (e.g., Digital Services Act, AI-related regulation, children’s data rules).
- Counsel on data use in free-to-play models, including analytics, advertising, monetisation, and player engagement features.
- Advise on children’s and teens’ privacy, age-appropriate building, parental controls, and profiling restrictions.
- Support the use of virtual economies, telemetry, and behavioural data while managing regulatory risk.
- Assess and offer recommendations regarding third-party integrations (analytics, ad networks, SDKs) and the accompanying data-sharing arrangements.
- Draft and negotiate data protection clauses, DPAs, and cross-border transfer mechanisms (e.g., SCCs, UK IDTA).
- Work with teams cross-functionally (including GIS, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and Marketing) on user protections and platform obligations.
- Qualified lawyer in the UK or EU jurisdiction with 3+ years PQE (or equivalent) (required).
- Solid background in privacy and data protection law, including GDPR and UK GDPR (required).
- Experience advising on consumer-facing digital products or platforms, ideally in a product counselling role (required).
- Demonstrated ability to embed legal advice into product development processes (required).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-legal teams (required).
- Experience in the gaming industry (preferred).
- Familiarity with ad tech, analytics, and data monetisation models (preferred).
- Experience working with children’s data, age verification, or youth safeguarding frameworks (e.g., Age Appropriate Design Code considerations) (preferred).
- Certification or specialization in privacy (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPM) (preferred).
- In-house experience in a fast-paced technology or gaming environment (preferred).
- Experience advising on products containing AI (preferred).
- Robust benefits package.
- Global career opportunities.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.