Legal Counsel, Uber Korea
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About the Legal Team
The legal and regulatory challenges at Uber are constantly evolving. From our start-up days, where we launched Uber in new countries, testing a new way of working and moving around cities. To now, where we partner closely with regulators to build a stronger and more sustainable ecosystem for Uber’s various businesses. We #SeeTheForestAndTheTrees by knowing the details and understanding the technical legal issues while also seeing the bigger picture and helping the business grow.
This position will be based in Seoul, South Korea and report to the Associate General Counsel, APAC.
About the Role
As the Legal Counsel for South Korea, you will be the primary legal anchor on the ground, serving as a trusted strategic partner to local business leadership while collaborating with APAC and global teams. Operating in one of our most dynamic and competitive markets, you will navigate complex, cutting-edge regulatory issues to protect Uber’s interests, unlock business growth, and shape the future of mobility in Korea.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Strategic Leadership & Advisory
- Executive Partnership: Act as the dedicated legal advisor to the South Korea General Manager and the local Leadership Team, translating ambitious business goals into legally sound, compliant strategies.
- Risk & Opportunity Management: Proactively identify, evaluate, and manage legal risks across all operations, developing commercially focused, creative solutions that balance risk mitigation with strategic growth.
- Regulatory Navigation: Guide the business through Korea’s highly complex and evolving regulatory environment, particularly regarding mobility regulations, antitrust/competition, and consumer protection.
- Product Counseling: Partner with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal clearance for new features, localized app rollouts, and innovative business models.
- Compliance & Governance: Ensure absolute compliance with all local statutory requirements and industry standards, while overseeing corporate governance for Uber's Korean entities.
- High-Stakes Contracting: Draft, negotiate, and execute complex commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, and vendor contracts to robustly protect the company's interests.
- Scaling Operations: Design and implement legal processes, templates, and playbooks to drive efficiency and ensure the legal function scales seamlessly alongside the business leveraging existing regional and global processes.
- Global & Regional Alignment: Work across time zones and cultures collaborating closely with the APAC Legal team and global HQ partners to align local initiatives with Uber’s global strategy.
- External Counsel Management: Strategically select, engage, and manage top-tier external law firms, optimizing legal spend while driving favorable outcomes on complex regulatory matters and disputes.
WHO YOU ARE
Core Qualifications- Experience: 6+ years PQE at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house. Prior in-house experience at a global tech company is highly preferred.
- Credentials: Korean Law qualified, supported by strong academic credentials from a top-tier law school or university.
- Language: Complete bilingual business proficiency in both English and Korean (written and spoken).
- Tech & Mobility Focus: Strong product counseling experience within a fast-paced, global tech ecosystem.
- Subject Matter Breadth: A proven track record of navigating complex legal landscapes, with specific expertise in mobility regulations, franchise businesses and antitrust/competition laws.
- Cross-Functional Knowledge: Familiarity with a wide range of practice areas, including consumer protection, litigation, privacy and employment.
- Strategic Problem Solver: Commercially minded with the ability to translate complex legal ambiguity into simple, actionable business advice. You don't just flag risks—you deliver creative, "out-of-the-box" solutions that balance risk mitigation with strategic growth.
- Executive Presence: High emotional intelligence with a demonstrated ability to influence, persuade, and build consensus at the executive level during high-impact, high-profile situations.
- Agility & Grit: Comfortable operating in the gray. You think on your feet, make high-stakes decisions quickly, and consistently stay two steps ahead in a fast-paced environment.
- Cultural Fit: Absolute integrity, accountability, and a genuine enthusiasm for Uber’s mission to change how the world moves!
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
Ready to Ride?
This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Skills Required
- At least 6 years of post-qualified experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house
- Qualified to practice Korean law
- Strong academic credentials from a top-tier law school or university
- Complete bilingual business proficiency in English and Korean, written and spoken
- Product counseling experience in a fast-paced global technology environment
- Expertise in mobility regulations, franchise businesses, and antitrust or competition law
- Familiarity with consumer protection, litigation, privacy, and employment law
- Prior in-house experience at a global technology company
Uber Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Uber and has not been reviewed or approved by Uber.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide a minimum of fully paid parental leave for all parents and financial support for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy, with added credits to ease the transition. Programs extend to family medical leave and parenting support resources, indicating depth beyond baseline offerings.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive across many countries, with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health benefits, plus allowances where direct plans are not available. Wellness programs and reimbursements further reinforce access to care.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Monthly ride and meal credits, free office meals/snacks, fitness stipends, onsite gyms, and wellbeing reimbursements create meaningful everyday value. Home‑office stipends, travel medical coverage, and counseling support round out lifestyle-oriented perks.
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What We Do
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything. Movement is what we do. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real-time. At the incredible speed of now.
Why Work With Us
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
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