Senior Commercial & Privacy Counsel

About Coursera + Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI.

Why join us now?

AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.

Shape what comes next

By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.

Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it’s from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below. Although we collaborate globally, this opportunity is specifically aligned to our team presence in Dublin.

About your skills

• Exceptional business judgement and a proven ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in fast-moving deal environments.

• Executive-level communication skills: able to distill complex issues into clear, actionable guidance and influence stakeholders from SMB to large enterprise and C-suite.

• A track record of using approved AI tools to increase legal productivity, and staying current on AI governance obligations.

About this role

• We are looking for an exceptional Senior Commercial & Privacy Counsel to join our growing Commercial Legal team. You will serve as a strategic legal partner to our go-to-market teams — driving complex deal negotiations, building scalable contracting frameworks, and fuelling our expansion with enterprise clients and organisations across all market segments.
• This is a high-impact, highly autonomous role for a commercially sharp, privacy-fluent lawyer who thrives in fast-paced, technology-forward environments. You will guide sophisticated transactions across diverse industries and jurisdictions, providing strategic counsel on the commercial and regulatory dimensions of AI platform deployment.

What you’ll be doing  

• Serve as a key strategic advisor to Sales leadership on complex commercial transactions, bringing sound judgement and a solutions-first approach to every deal.
• Lead and close negotiations across the full range of commercial agreements — MSAs, SaaS subscriptions, PaaS, SOWs, professional services agreements, reseller and channel agreements, and government and public sector contracts.
• Design and implement scalable contract frameworks, playbooks, and processes to support a high-velocity sales organisation.
• Partner with Sales, Deal Desk, Partner & Alliances, Finance, Security, Product, and other business units to facilitate reviews, drive sales enablement, and contribute to continuous process improvement.
• Serve as the internal lead on data privacy matters, embedding privacy expertise into commercial deals and raising data privacy awareness across the organisation.
• Provide mentorship and support to other members of the legal team, supervising and coaching junior lawyers on commercial matters.
• Foster trusted relationships with enterprise clients, external partners, advisors, and regulatory bodies across the region.
• Anticipate emerging legal and regulatory developments affecting AI and technology and provide proactive strategic guidance to cross-functional leadership.
• Develop training materials and deliver education to Sales, channel, and internal teams on contract terms, commercial risks, and legal process.

What you’ll have  

• A law degree and qualification to practise in an EU jurisdiction.
• At least 8 years of relevant legal experience supporting commercial transactions across diverse client segments and industries.
• Significant experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, with a strong intellectual property law and technology transactions background preferred.
• Experience with cross-border transactions and multi-jurisdictional contracting spanning EU, UK, APAC, and North America.
• Exceptional business judgement and a proven ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in fast-moving deal environments.
• Executive-level communication skills: able to distill complex issues into clear, actionable guidance and influence stakeholders from SMB to large enterprise and C-suite.
• Strong understanding of AI technology and governance trends; data privacy expertise spanning GDPR, UK GDPR, CPPA, and key international regimes; and working knowledge of ISO 27001,  SOC 2, or similar frameworks.
• Experience leading and mentoring lawyers, with the ability to operate independently in fast-paced, evolving technology environments.
• Fluency in English; additional European language skills are a plus.

Preferred

• In-house experience at a leading technology company with EMEA operations.
• Experience negotiating privacy and AI-specific or machine learning-related commercial agreements.
• Public sector and regulated industry contracting experience.
• Multi-jurisdictional experience across European and international markets.
• A track record of using approved AI tools to increase legal productivity, and staying current on AI governance obligations.

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Posting Date: June 25 2026
Application Window: 6 weeks
We anticipate the application window will be open until 6 August 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.

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