Senior Legal & Privacy Manager

Title: Senior Legal & Privacy Manager Location: Hybrid or Remote in UK with Occasional Travel to our Central London Office Position: Permanent Reports to: General Counsel About PetlabCo PetLab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in 2018, we successfully achieved a 9-figure revenue last year. We have a loyal community of loving pet parents and over 1.5 million happy dogs whose lives have been positively impacted by our innovative products. Our team is vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-driven where high-performers are valued and rewarded. And it is the ideal place for an ambitious, hardworking, animal lover who wants to progress their career rapidly. The Role A senior role in PetLab Co.'s Legal function, working in partnership with the General Counsel. You'll run the day-to-day of our privacy programme and legal operations, and independently progress commercial, consumer, IP and governance matters within agreed parameters. You'll be the coordination point across Legal: triaging new matters, setting priorities, forming practical recommendations, managing stakeholders, and seeing decisions through to completion, resolving what you can and escalating what needs the General Counsel. This isn't a traditional Legal Counsel role, and qualifying as a lawyer isn't required. We're looking for strong legal fluency, real privacy expertise, and the judgement and operational discipline to help a small team support a fast-moving international business. What we're looking for An experienced legal, privacy or compliance professional who pairs substantive knowledge with operational judgement. You interpret contracts and regulatory requirements, turn them into action, and keep multiple matters moving without losing sight of risk or commercial priority. You have significant hands-on data privacy experience: assessing new processing activities, negotiating data processing terms, handling privacy incidents and data subject requests, and working with technical and commercial teams to understand what actually happens to personal data. You create leverage for the General Counsel. You gather the facts, find the real issue, form a recommendation, and own matters through to closure rather than treating advice as the finish line. You're pragmatic and commercially minded, more interested in finding a compliant route than flagging risk and stopping there. Your day-to-day You won't have done all of this before, and you don't need to have. The essentials are deep hands-on privacy experience and the ability to work across a broad legal remit. Privacy and data protection Oversee and coordinate the privacy programme across the UK, EU, US and Canada, with the eneral Counsel, Cybersecurity and business teams. Advise early and practically on new or changed uses of personal data (marketing tech, CRM, analytics, AI, vendor initiatives). Lead DPIAs, legitimate interests and other privacy risk assessments,…