Legal Counsel - Product

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Office, Machaze, Manica, MOZ
Remote
Mid level
Marketing Tech • Software
The Role
Provide embedded legal support to product and engineering teams for consumer-facing platform features. Lead legal reviews from concept to launch, advise on consumer protection and digital regulation, draft customer-facing terms, engage regulators, partner with privacy specialists, and build AI-powered legal frameworks and playbooks to enable compliant product development.
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Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Are you ready to shape the future of global food delivery tech? As a Legal Counsel for Product, you will be a trusted partner to our innovative tech and product development teams. In this role, you will Lead by driving legal excellence from concept to launch, Deliver by collaborating cross-functionally on new and developing product features, and Care by safeguarding customer trust. You will serve as the strategic legal anchor guiding global consumer-facing platforms and providing embedded legal support.

Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Reporting to: Senior Legal Counsel - Consumer

These are some of the key components to the position:
  • Lead the comprehensive legal review of new product features and user journeys to ensure global alignment.
  • Deliver clear, risk-managed guidance to engineering and product management teams through all stages of development.
  • Actively advise on legal and regulatory issues affecting online platforms, including consumer protection and digital policies.
  • Manage engagement with external bodies including regulators, legislators and consumer bodies on behalf of JET.
  • Partner closely with privacy and other specialists to integrate compliance into the product design lifecycle.
  • Draft and review customer-facing communications, platform disclosures and user terms.
  • Care for our community by building Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered legal frameworks, tools and playbooks that protect the business while enabling teams to move faster and with confidence.
What will you bring to the team?
  • Proven legal advisory capability in tech-led, digital marketplace, or consumer-facing online platform environments.
  • Strong understanding of consumer protection law, digital regulation and consumer-facing product risk.
  • Exceptional communication skills with a track record of translating complex legal requirements into practical and pragmatic advice for non-legal stakeholders.
  • Strong collaborative mindset with an innate ability to connect dots and partner with stakeholders across diverse legal, compliance, engineering and product organizations.
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset focused on advancing business objectives while successfully managing regulatory risks.
  • Experience building relationships with regulators and other external bodies to achieve business goals and minimise risk.
  • Legally qualified to practice law in the United Kingdom or relevant European jurisdiction.
At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.

Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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Skills Required

  • Proven legal advisory experience in tech-led, digital marketplace, or consumer-facing online platforms
  • Strong understanding of consumer protection law and digital regulation
  • Exceptional communication skills and ability to translate legal requirements for non-legal stakeholders
  • Strong collaborative mindset and ability to partner across legal, compliance, engineering and product teams
  • Proactive, problem-solving mindset focused on business objectives and regulatory risk management
  • Experience engaging with regulators, legislators or consumer bodies
  • Experience working with privacy specialists and integrating compliance into product design
  • Legally qualified to practise law in the United Kingdom or a relevant European jurisdiction
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The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
15,313 Employees

What We Do

Just Eat Take​away​.com is a lead­ing glob­al online food deliv­ery mar­ket­place, con­nect­ing con­sumers and restau­rants through our plat­form in 20 coun­tries. Like a dinner table, working at JET brings our office employees and couriers together. From coding to customer service to couriers, JET is a fun, fast-paced and supportive place where you can be yourself. No day is the same. Our days are filled with new experiences. We see every challenge that comes our way as a chance to grow, both the business, and ourselves. We’re connected to millions of food-lovers, hundreds of thousands of connected partners and some of the best-known brands of the planet. When you take your seat here, you’ll find that a simple scribble on a napkin can turn into something seen by millions. Together we transform, create, reinvent and empower every food moment. As a leading online food tech company, JET brings together the stability of a global business, with the agility of a start-up. We got here by always staying one step ahead of the competition. So load up your plate with ideas that get you excited, because at JET everything is on the table. https://careers.justeattakeaway.com

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