Privacy Counsel, Checkatrade
+ Annual bonus or commission (role dependent)
3-4 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Posted today
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Annual bonus or commission (role dependent)
3-4 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a curious, collaborative, and dynamic mind to join Checkatrade’s Data Privacy team during an exciting phase of growth and innovation. We’re more interested in your mindset, approach, and ability to make an impact than a rigid skillset
- This is a role for someone eager to get stuck in, ask smart questions, challenge assumptions, and play a big role in helping shape the legal foundations
- This is a great opportunity for a junior-mid level lawyer with a strong interest in privacy and data protection to develop their career in a fast-paced, digital marketplace business
- Solid UK privacy experience, ideally in-house or advising digital, tech, or consumer-facing businesses
- Strong knowledge of UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and PECR, with practical application
- Qualified solicitor in the UK or the EU, or comparable legal advisory experience
- 1–5 years PQE (flexible), ideally with in-house experience
- Proven ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and deliver under pressure
- Awareness of the privacy, regulatory, and commercial context in which marketplace platforms operate
- Proven ability to assess complex issues and provide clear, pragmatic advice that supports delivery
- Experience streamlining and embedding privacy processes at scale
- Strong oral and written communication skills to engage stakeholders across tech, product and commercial teams
- A can-do attitude, excited by new problems - even those outside your comfort zone
- Naturally curious, asking insightful questions and exploring new concepts with enthusiasm
- Resilient and adaptable, thriving in ambiguity and fast-paced environments
- Strong collaboration and outside-the-box thinking who is a genuine team player, building trusted relationships across the business
- A mindset geared towards technology and innovation, especially AI, including using tools to work more effectively
What the job involves
- This is not your average privacy or legal job. You'll be embedded within fast-moving cross-functional teams, expected to navigate ambiguity, move at speed, and help others do the same
- You’ll be supported by the Head of Data Privacy and sit within the Legal, Privacy and Procurement Group
- Advising on privacy risks in new products, features, technologies, and initiatives - identifying risks early and balancing them with commercial objectives
- Running DPIAs and embedding proportionate privacy-by-design across business processes
- Reviewing and negotiating data protection terms, including DPAs and SCCs
- Acting as an escalation point for data rights requests, complaints, and regulator contact
- Supporting incident response with risk assessments and legal documentation
- Streamlining and automating privacy processes through tools and workflows to enable scale
- Staying up to date with evolving regulatory guidance and enforcement trends, assessing business impact, and driving appropriate actions
- Advising on AI/ML privacy and regulatory considerations, with an eye on responsible deployment
Application process
- Recruiter screen with a Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Business interview with the Head of Data Privacy
- Case Study Presentation with Panel interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Meet the team
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 📱 Mobile Phone Allowance
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Be All In: We are moving at pace – enjoy the journey, embrace the opportunity and own the outcome
- Always Customer Obsessed: We are testing and learning together – listen to our customer insights continuously and evolve our approach
- Do The Right Thing: We work with integrity in everything we do – do the right thing for our team and customers
- Be Bold: We are ambitious and think big – speak up and go direct to deliver our mission together
- Get It Done: We are here for exceptional outcomes – have a bias for action to deliver them
Company HQ
Islington, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Jo Agar (Internal Communications Manager )
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 26% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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