Data / Digital Lawyer – Associate/ Managing Associate

We are seeking a senior data, digital and commercial law specialist to support and grow our nationally recognised Data and Digital team, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional advisory and contract work and incident response.

This is a strategic hire to help meet increasing client demand across our core sectors - retail, tech, sports, healthcare, and financial services - and to enhance our capabilities across non-contentious matters.

We are particularly interested in individuals with at least 5 years' PQE+, who are looking to step into a Managing Associate level role.

This is a high performing, cohesive and busy team with excellent prospects for career development, and secondments, if you want them.

You will be leafing on a spread of data, digital and commercial advisory work, including strategic advisory projects, data and information access, incident response, and preparing and negotiating a range of commercial contracts for clients on both the customer and supplier side as well as managing transactions across IT and intellectual property issues.

In this role, you will:

• Lead on complex data, digital and commercial work servicing high-profile clients, including advising on GDPR/UK GDPR compliance, international data transfers, PECR, AI/data ethics, smart data, cyber regulation and regulatory investigations.
• Be a primary contact for key clients, managing relationships, driving delivery, and offering commercial, solution-focused advice.
• Supervise and mentor junior lawyers, helping shape their development while ensuring high-quality, consistent output across the team.
• Deliver and manage large-scale compliance projects and incident response plans, ensuring timely and thorough execution.
• Work cross-functionally with teams including commercial, disputes, employment, and legal tech to provide integrated client support.
• Help shape team strategy by contributing to business development, thought leadership, and client engagement activities

Your impact will include:

• Strengthening AG's reputation as a trusted adviser on complex data, digital and technology issues
• Enhancing delivery capability across the UK and internationally
• Supporting the development and progression of junior talent within the team

You will have:

• Significant experience advising on complex commercial contracts, technology, digital and data protection matters gained within a leading private practice or in-house legal team.
• Strong technical expertise combined with excellent commercial judgement, enabling you to provide pragmatic, strategic and solutions-focused advice to a diverse client base.
• A proven ability to build and maintain trusted client relationships, taking ownership of matters and acting as a key day-to-day adviser to clients.
• Experience supervising, mentoring and developing junior lawyers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• A track record of identifying opportunities to deepen client relationships and supporting business development, profile-raising and market engagement activities.
• The ambition to play an active role in the continued growth of the Commercial & Data practice, contributing to strategic initiatives across the Scottish and international business.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to lead complex transactions, manage multiple stakeholders and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, commercial awareness and the confidence to work alongside partners and clients on strategically important and intellectually challenging matters.