WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You will become a member of the Technology Legal Team within McKinsey Legal, based in our of our European offices (London, Warsaw, or Brussels preferred). 

Our Technology Legal Team has global responsibilities covering a wide range of technology legal topics, including advising our consultants on engagements involving technology delivery; reviewing new software and technology assets in development; acting as product counsel to our internal and client-facing teams responsible for technology products and services (assets); analyzing, advising, and preparing for regulatory changes in artificial intelligence, data localization, cyber security and technology more broadly; advising our information security team and security operations center; managing our intellectual property portfolio; and supporting our regional lawyers in their work involving technology.

Your role will focus primarily on our asset portfolio — reviewing new assets in development and acting as product counsel throughout an asset’s lifecycle - with an additional focus on advising our consultants on engagements involving technology delivery. Over time your role may involve other aspects of our team’s work.

You will work closely with the wider McKinsey Legal Department and other firm functions including our Technology Ecosystem, Cyber Security, Risk, and Compliance to structure, negotiate, and execute arrangements regarding assets from inception to completion. You will have an opportunity to work with and learn from experienced lawyers with backgrounds in a wide range of technology related legal specialties.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

­You will review and advise our consulting and asset teams on technology products that we build as a service to our firm and clients.  

You will draft, review, and negotiate complex contracts relating to software, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cyber security, and data usage. Negotiations will entail frequent interaction with McKinsey clients and consultants.

You will monitor regulatory proposals and changes, develop strategies for implementing regulatory requirements, and educate our teams outside of legal on regulatory developments in their space.

You will counsel consultants on a variety of other legal issues and work with them as they proceed through the firm’s risk and economic committee approval processes.

You will take an active role in internal knowledge and learning, e.g., developing precedent documents and rolling-out training for firm leadership, the wider McKinsey Legal Department, and other firm functions.

You will also identify best practices to address legal and professional issues impacting the firm’s business, including counseling consultants on the application of McKinsey’s internal policies.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years’ experience advising on at least several of the matters referenced above
• ­Fluent in English
• Team player who is highly collaborative, collegiate, and flexible with a willingness to take on new, unexpected, and challenging assignments
• Commercial awareness: the ability to identify the most salient pressure points in complex and varied technological scenarios
• Excellent communicator: conveys information clearly in written and verbal form; can translate large amounts of complex information into a digestible format capable of understanding by busy, non-legal professionals
• Accomplished project manager with the ability to readily switch between pragmatism and in-depth analysis
• Comfort in a highly challenging, fast-paced, and dynamic environment