The Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for the permanent position: Project Manager - Intellectual Property, Personal Data Protection for AI and Language Technologies.

Job description

Under the CEO’s supervision, the Project Manager will handle legal issues related to the compilation, use and distribution of language datasets in a European and international environment. This yields excellent opportunities for creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Language Engineering field.

Their main tasks will consist of:

• Analysing the legal status of language datasets and language models;
• Implementing data protection requirements in the processing and distribution of language data;
• Analysing data collection legal issues;
• Drafting and negotiating distribution contracts for language datasets to be added to an online catalogue;
• Implementing evaluation procedures for IPR clearance of digital data;
• Assessing ethical practices within our activities.

The position is based in Paris.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 40-60K€).

Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers.

Required profile:

• PhD (or Master’s degree + at least 3 years’ experience) in IT Law, with good understanding of intellectual property and data protection;
• Fluent English, with advanced writing and analytical skills;
• Experience implementing data protection regulations;
• Knowledge of the European digital regulatory environment (eg. Digital Services Act, Digital Market Act, Data Act, Digital Governance Act, Open Data Directive, AI Act);
• Familiar with public licensing schemes (CC, GPL, etc.); 
• Involvement in European or international projects related to IPR and other legal aspects;
• Dynamic, communicative, flexible and capable of working independently as well as in a team;
• EU citizen, or residence permit enabling to work in France.

About

ELDA is an SME established in 1995 to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. ELDA’s role is to produce LRs, to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users in compliance with applicable regulations and ethical requirements.

For further information about ELDA, visit: http://www.elda.org  

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to:

ELDA
9 rue des Cordelières
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Email: job@elda.org