Senior Vice President, Legal

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Airalo

๐Ÿ“Remote - Ireland, Germany

Summary

Join Airalo, the worldโ€™s first eSIM store, as their SVP of Legal and play a pivotal role in building a best-in-class legal function. This is a remote-first, full-time position offering health insurance, a work-from-anywhere stipend, and other benefits. You will provide strategic legal advice, focusing on corporate and M&A work, IP and litigation, and employment issues. You will work closely with senior executives, internal teams, and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with at least 10 years of experience in reputable law firms or multinational corporations, significant experience in an international consumer technology business, and experience dealing with international regulators. This role requires strong communication, problem-solving, and time-management skills.

Requirements

  • Qualified lawyer, ideally in an APAC, US, and/or European/UK jurisdiction, with a minimum of 10 years of working experience in reputable law firms and/or in multinational corporations and/or start-up
  • Significant experience in an international consumer technology business
  • Experience dealing with international regulators
  • Experience in a scaling business, ideally at the point of an exit event taking place
  • Experience dealing with board level stakeholders
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
  • Sound and practical business judgment and commercial acumen, able to balance risk effectively and appropriately
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills, adapting to your audience, anticipating the impact of your words and actions, in order to be an effective influencer
  • Creative and pragmatic problem-solving skills
  • Self-driven, optimistic, and keen to work as part of a professional and closely-knit team
  • Highly organized with excellent time management skills, able to balance competing priorities and manage several time-sensitive projects at the same time

Responsibilities

  • Provide expert legal counsel to Airaloโ€™s board of directors, co-founders, and other senior leaders on corporate governance matters
  • Develop an understanding of relevant regulatory regimes, in order to represent the company in discussion with regulators
  • Ensure adherence to best practices in corporate governance and business ethics
  • Identify and assess potential legal and commercial risks, developing strategies to mitigate them
  • Provide advice on the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions
  • Provide advice on contentious and non-contentious IP related issues
  • Oversee management of the employee share scheme
  • Manage litigation, or other strategic legal and business related issues

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with Internet and technology companies
  • Experience working with Telco, MNOs & MNVOs
  • Experience advising on privacy law & GDPR matters

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Work-from-anywhere stipend
  • Annual wellness & learning credits
  • Annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination

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