The Role
Provide commercial legal support across global operations: draft, review, and negotiate commercial and privacy agreements; advise on privacy, data protection, IP, employment, and equity plan matters; support global expansion and subsidiaries; develop templates, playbooks, and legal strategy; manage external counsel and stakeholder relationships.
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About GeoComply
We’re GeoComply! We are at the forefront of geolocation, cybersecurity, and anti-fraud innovation, developing and delivering cutting-edge technologies to help ensure regulatory compliance, combat bad online actors, alleviate user friction, and protect businesses from fraud.
Achieving significant business and revenue growth over the past three years and dubbed a tech “Unicorn,” GeoComply has been trusted by leading global brands and regulators for over ten years. Our compliance-grade geolocation technology solutions are installed on over 400 million devices and analyze over 12 billion transactions a year.
At the heart of it all is the people, united by a deep commitment to problem-solving and revolutionizing how people and businesses use the internet to instill confidence in every online interaction. With teams across five countries, three continents, and a global customer base, we have no plans to slow down.
The Role
Are you an ambitious lawyer who thrives at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and law? Do you want to work in a highly collaborative environment and contribute meaningfully to the success of a hyper-growth global tech company?
GeoComply is seeking a talented Legal Counsel to join our busy and growing central Legal team. In this role, you will manage a variety of interesting and challenging legal projects, serving as a trusted business partner across commercial and operational functions. We are looking for a self-starter who is eager to learn the ins-and-outs of our business, manage complex legal matters, and drive strategic initiatives to support our global growth and protect our interests.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviewing, drafting, interpreting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including non-disclosure, customer, license, consulting, leasing, vendor, and data processing agreements.
- Together with the broader Legal team, developing and implementing comprehensive and coordinated legal strategy and activities across various commercial functions (including revenue, business development, marketing, product, and customer success) and departments (including OneComply, Betting Hero, and other current or future subsidiaries or affiliates).
- Strategizing with internal stakeholders on global expansion matters; enabling and empowering the company to maximize new business opportunities in a legally compliant manner.
- Advising with respect to a variety of privacy and data protection initiatives, including legal compliance, privacy risk identification and mitigation, internal privacy and data governance structures, and privacy-related contractual matters including data processing agreements and other similar instruments.
- Supporting the company and its global subsidiaries and affiliates on employment, intellectual property, legal process, equity plan management and other similar legal matters.
- Conducting research on emerging areas of law and best practices in tech transactions; assessing legal risks and their impact on business operations; advising key business stakeholders accordingly.
- Managing relationships with strategic commercial counterparties (including various customers, vendors, and their legal counsel), professional advisors, and government authorities.
- Developing and maintaining legal templates, precedents, playbooks, databases, guidelines, and other materials and resources.
- Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the company or your manager from time to time, consistent with your position.
Who You Are
- Law degree from a highly-ranked university and full qualification to practice law in an in-house environment in North America.
- Approximately 3 to 8 years’ experience as a lawyer in a top-tier law firm or in-house department (or some combination thereof); prior in-house experience, especially in a high-growth tech company environment, is highly valued.
- A proven track record of working with and advising North American headquartered, global businesses on cross-border legal functions would be an added benefit.
- Experience reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating commercial contracts for products, services, and technology; and working with a variety of vendors, suppliers, and service providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with privacy, data protection and other similar areas of law.
- Comfortable working with outside resources, contractors, and legal counsel.
- Impeccable attention to detail, well-organized, and takes initiative to anticipate future needs, identify issues, and propose and implement solutions.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; plus the ability to distill and concisely communicate complex legal issues and advance clear, confident, and strongly supported recommendations and decisions.
- Sound business judgment and reasoning. Thinks and acts strategically; grasps complex ideas and issues; can evaluate and act on alternative solutions quickly and concisely.
- A hard-working team player who welcomes rolling up their sleeves. Thrives in a dynamic, transaction-focused, rapidly evolving environment with multiple projects and tight deadlines.
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Interested in joining our team? Send us your resume and a cover letter. We can’t wait to meet you!
Commitment to Diversity and Equity.
If you don't tick every box in this job description, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who value inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage, and integrity rather than ticking boxes, so if this resonates with you, please apply.
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Why GeoComply?
Joining the GeoComply team means you’ll be part of an award-winning company to work, learn and grow. We are fast-paced, high-impact, and have a can-do team culture.
To be successful in our organization, you need an eager attitude, professionalism, and the confidence to willingly work to prove yourself and your ideas, and earn the trust of the organization.
Here’s why we think you’d love working with us.
We’re working towards something big
We’ve built a reputation as the global market leader for geolocation compliance solutions for over 10 years. We’re trusted by customers from all over the world, and the next few years will be particularly exciting as we continue to scale across new markets.
Our values aren’t just a buzzword
Our values are the foundation for what we as a company care about most. They signify the commitment we make to each other around how we act and what we stand for. They are our north star as we work together to build a company we’re all proud to be a part of. Learn more, here.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of who we are
In collaboration with our team and external partners, we promote DEI in our recruitment and hiring practices; scholarships and financial aid; training and mentorship programs; employee benefits, and more.
Learning is at the heart of our employee experience
At GeoComply, we foster an environment that empowers every employee to gain the knowledge and abilities needed to perform at their very best and help our organization grow. From a professional development budget to local training opportunities, knowledge-sharing sessions and more, we are continually investing in employee career growth and development.
We believe in being a force for good
We profoundly care about our impact on the world and strive to make meaningful contributions to the communities we work and live in. Our Impact division focuses on philanthropic and social responsibility initiatives, including supporting our local communities, advancing equality, and harnessing our technology to protect vulnerable groups. Learn more, here.
We care about our team
Our GeoComply team is talented, driven and hard-working, and is known for its positive attitude and energy. At GeoComply, we take care of our employees with the total package. Team members are generously rewarded with competitive salaries, incentives, and a comprehensive benefits program.
We value in-person collaboration
GeoComply culture thrives on a dynamic mix of in-person energy and independent focus and we champion a hybrid work model that blends the energy of in-person collaboration with the flexibility to work from home. Our 3-day in-office policy fosters teamwork and innovation, while also recognizing the importance of individual work styles and needs.
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At GeoComply, we live our value of Act with Integrity. Our workplace is built on mutual respect and inclusion, and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and identities. Creating an accessible interview experience for all candidates is important to us. If you have any requests (big or small) throughout our hiring process, please don’t hesitate to let us know so we can do our best to prioritize your needs.
We care about your privacy and want you to be informed about your rights. Please read our Applicant Privacy Notice before applying for the position.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information please see the Applicant Privacy Statement or feel free to contact us directly.
Skills Required
- Law degree from a highly-ranked university and full qualification to practice law in an in-house environment in North America
- Approximately 3 to 8 years' experience as a lawyer in a top-tier law firm or in-house department
- Experience reviewing, drafting, analyzing, and negotiating commercial contracts for products, services, and technology
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with privacy and data protection law, including privacy risk mitigation and data processing agreements
- Experience working with vendors, suppliers, service providers, and managing external counsel
- Prior in-house experience, especially in a high-growth tech company environment
- Proven track record advising North American headquartered, global businesses on cross-border legal functions
- Strong attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills, sound business judgment, and ability to communicate complex legal issues concisely
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2011, GeoComply provides fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions that detect location fraud and help verify a user's true digital identity. Our award-winning products are based on the technologies developed for the highly regulated and complex U.S. online gaming and sports betting market. Beyond iGaming, GeoComply provides geolocation fraud detection solutions for streaming video broadcasters and the online banking, payments and cryptocurrency industries, building an impressive list of global customers including Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Akamai, Sightline, DraftKings, FanDuel and MGM. The company’s software is installed on over 400 million devices worldwide and analyzes over 10 billion transactions a year, placing GeoComply in a unique position to identify and counter both current and newly emerging fraud threats. Proven and refined over 10 years of development, GeoComply’s solutions incorporate location, device and identity intelligence along with advanced machine learning to detect and flag fraudulent activity. By integrating GeoComply’s solutions into their processes and risk engines, organizations are able to identify fraud earlier in a user’s engagement, better establish their true digital identity and empower digital trust
