Join us as a Data Protection Lab Consultant

Data Protection Lab

Ask Q wants to change the legal business. We are the legal wing(wo)man that (international) companies have been looking for. At Ask Q, as a Junior Contracts Lab Consultant you will receive the same training as within a law firm but without all the bar obligations. On top of that you will have the opportunity to work for different companies, often simultaneously.

Ask Q serves as an extension of several top companies' legal teams. We want to change the legal business, also for our employees: we offer complete transparency about financials, about strategy and planning, we let our consultants take ownership over clients and projects and we understand the importance of a good balance between work and life. We are passionate about what we do, but we know there’s more to life than work.

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Your role

As a Data Protection Lab Consultant, you will be a part of the Data Protection Lab. Our Data Protection Lab aims to offer hands-on solutions for our customer’s day-to-day data protection encounters and not-so-everyday projects alike. Unlike more traditional law firms, we do not just offer data protection advice from a distance. We like to take ownership of the client’s problem and aim for easy-to-implement solutions that unburden the client by actually diving into the clients’ systems and connecting legal, IT and the business. We do the client’s homework.

Your Ask Q week will include:

Integrating your data protection know-how in the client’s day-to-day operations (contract drafting, policy reviews, etc.);
taking care of GDPR compliance in exciting projects (e.g. app development) or assisting new companies to achieve data protection compliance from scratch;
helping clients to maximize data usage and valorization, while minimizing liability risks;
proactively communicating with and advising the client’s international business teams on all kinds of data protection matters, either as their external DPO or as a dedicated legal counsel;
providing data protection awareness training or crash courses that are tailored to the client’s business;

discussing new data protection evolutions and proposing pragmatic solutions with your Ask Q colleagues in an open atmosphere;
supplementing your legal skills with IT know-how by working together with non-legal profiles, such as IT specialists or ethical hackers;
managing and coaching our junior legal consultants;
getting continuous feedback as well as various learning and development opportunities, to grow fast as a legal professional. You will work with talented colleagues who will help you build a strong legal background enabling you to work for large international companies.

Your profile & skills

You have

a master’s degree in law
at least 3 years of relevant work experience in data protection
worked in a law firm or consultancy firm or as legal counsel in an international company
a view on data protection as part of the bigger company picture
a high customer and service orientation
a knack for problem-solving

You are

a strong communicator with an analytical mind
a solid drafter and negotiator
fluent in English, fluency in Dutch or
French is a nice to have
a strong team player
business-minded
pro-active

You can

work independently
be hands on
deliver high quality work
coach and monitor the work of others to facilitate the achievement of objectives

Develop non-legal skills

On top of your high-level legal work, you can also take on an additional role to develop non-legal skills that interest you. These roles are very varied: we have talent tigers who help with recruiting, a happiness officer who organizes office events and a knowledge manager who is our curator on everything related to knowledge products.

Our commitment

We grow together and support each other while doing so.

Your colleagues will have your back while you are enjoying a well deserved break.

We help you balance your life with a flexible work-from-home policy.

What we offer

Working at Ask Q offers the best of two worlds: you get to work on complex legal tasks while being supported by experts in their field, as you would at a law firm, and you get to experience a variety of work, as you would as a company lawyer but at Ask Q, this is for a variety of clients and sectors. Working at a young fast-growing company means that you get the room to innovate and experiment, try something new and share your learnings with the team. A competitive compensation and benefits package will further be discussed during the job interviews.

Diversity, Inclusion & Social Commitment

We take diversity, inclusion, and social commitment seriously at Ask Q. Diversity is core to our values. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, offering access to various professional development programs and continuing legal education opportunities.

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