Senior Legal Counsel
Location
Northern America + 1 moreAll locations: Northern America | Europe
Posted
16 hours ago
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0
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Senior
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Job Description
Senior Legal Counsel
Emerging Travel Group
Role Description This is a remote vacancy open to candidates residing in Europe, USA and UK. - Commercial Contracting: - Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements and public-facing legal documentation supporting business operations, growth and risk management. - Structuring contractual frameworks, identifying legal and commercial risks and providing practical, business-oriented solutions. - Product & Business Support: - Supporting the design and launch of new travel products, booking flows, payment solutions and commercial models across multiple jurisdictions. - Advising on booking flows, ancillary products, customer journeys, cancellation and refund mechanics, and other customer-facing features from a legal and regulatory perspective. - Partnering with cross-functional teams to design compliant business, contractual and payment flows and ensure alignment with applicable legal requirements. - Supporting international expansion initiatives, including market entry projects, local regulatory assessments and implementation of new business models. - Regulatory, Payments & Expansion: - Monitoring legal and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions and assessing their impact on the business. - Advising on legal and regulatory requirements applicable to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, travel regulation, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation and digital platform regulation. - Advising on payment flows, merchant models, PSP integrations and regulatory implications of international payment structures. - Leading implementation of regulatory changes, managing external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and translating local legal advice into practical, scalable business solutions. Qualifications - Qualified to practise law in England & Wales, the United States or an EU Member State. - 7+ years of post-qualification experience, including significant in-house legal experience supporting international consumer technology, digital platform or travel technology businesses operating across the EU, UK and US. - Substantial in-house legal experience supporting an Online Travel Agency (OTA), bedbank, travel marketplace, travel distribution platform or travel technology business operating internationally. - Strong experience in international contracting, including agreements governed by common law and civil law jurisdictions, as well as cross-border commercial matters. - Strong understanding of EU, UK and US legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation, digital platform regulation and privacy laws applicable to consumer-facing digital services. - Experience supporting commercial and product legal matters across multiple European jurisdictions (including common-law and civil-law systems) and North America. - Proven ability to independently manage complex international legal matters and coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions. - Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage stakeholders and drive implementation of legal solutions. - Ability to assess, communicate and mitigate legal risks in a practical and business-oriented manner. - Fluent English (written and spoken). Benefits - Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely. - Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together. - Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities. - Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences. - Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world. - Corporate prices on hotels and travel services. - MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
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