Fractional Data Privacy Specialist

About us
Every large organisation runs on a web of legal entities, and the data behind them is scattered across in-house teams, law firms and accountants in PDFs, spreadsheets and slide decks. Jigsaw brings it into one place.
We started by giving lawyers and accountants a faster way to model client structures, and became the category leader doing it. Today 240+ organisations use Jigsaw, including all 10 of the world’s top 10 accountancy firms. Now we’re building Entity Lifecycle Management: one live record for every entity, from formation to dissolution.
Founded by former lawyer and repeat founder Stephen Scanlan, and backed by Exor Ventures.

Why join us:
You’ll help define a new software category with the backing of a loyal, global customer base. We hire people with high ownership and a bias for action, then trust them to do their best work.

About the role

You'll be Jigsaw's embedded data privacy advisor: the person product development and customer-facing teams turn to when a data or privacy question needs a real answer. This is a fractional role (starting at roughly 1-2 days a week in-office), working closely alongside our existing Legal team.

The focus for this role will be translating legal and technical complexity into commercially-focused, actionable responses to help free up teams to move quickly. In practice, this could be advising the product team on what compliance actions we need to take ahead of a new product release, making case-by-case decisions for customers with unique compliance requirements, or conducting analysis on customer DPAs ahead of a change to data processing locations, right through to how to answer a client's questions about our AI features.

This isn't a standardise-everything-and-leave role. We work with customers around the world in regulated industries (legal, financial institutions, accountancy and enterprises) with varying compliance needs, where one-size-fits-all templates aren't always an option and we need to adopt a flexible approach. The work here is genuinely ongoing, nuanced, and advisory rather than a project with an end date.

You'll get to...

• Act as the go-to person for data and privacy questions across the business - in product meetings, customer rollout calls, and migration conversations

• Turn specific customer contract terms into practical, commercial recommendations, weighing real risk instead of defaulting to "no"

• Advise on cross-border and international data transfer questions, which come up constantly given our global customer base

• Join customer calls to speak credibly with clients' own data privacy counsel, many of whom are lawyers or privacy specialists themselves

• Translate complex legal and technical concepts clearly for non-legal, technical teams internally

• Help build a genuine "privacy by design" culture at Jigsaw - getting privacy thinking embedded at the start of projects, not bolted on at the end

• Spot opportunities to improve our templates, playbooks, and processes proactively, alongside the day-to-day reactive work

You'll need...

• A working understanding of UK & US privacy laws, including UK & EU GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act and CCPA, ideally with experience applying them in a live commercial context, not just in theory

• Genuine on-the-ground experience inside a tech company building product - this isn't a fit for a purely private-practice legal background

• To be genuinely comfortable with cross-border and international data transfer questions

• To be a commercial, pragmatic, solution-minded operator - someone who can weigh the significance and likelihood of a risk and propose a workable path forward, not someone who leads with compliance-first blockers

• Excellent communication skills on two levels: credible and precise with legally sophisticated clients, and clear and accessible for non-legal internal teams

• High ownership balanced with genuine collaboration, and able to build consensus

• Comfort with a fractional working pattern - broadly protected days, with the pragmatic flexibility to handle something urgent (like a data incident) outside them

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with other privacy frameworks, including AI governance or AI-related compliance questions

• CIPP/E or CIPM certification

• Experience working with clients in heavily regulated industries (law firms, accountancies, financial services)

• Prior experience at a similar-stage scale-up with a broad base of regulated, legally sophisticated customers

Who should apply?

If you find the letter-of-the-law side of privacy the least interesting part of the job, and you're energised instead by being commercial, pragmatic, and embedded in a fast-moving business — this is for you. You'll get real autonomy and visibility across the company, working directly with product, engineering, and customer teams, rather than being buried in reactive, box-ticking compliance work.