Voyagu is a San Francisco-based travel management company that connects premium travelers with travel experts for better and easier planning, booking, and managing of their trips. Being part of a growing billion-dollar travel industry, we already have millions in our revenue and a team of a hundred people with offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Mexico City, and we keep expanding. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Legal Counsel to support our legal needs across multiple areas of our business operations.
The Legal Counsel will be responsible for managing and advising on all legal aspects of the company, including intellectual property, regulatory compliance, vendor contracts, corporate structure, and employment matters across the US, Europe, and Mexico. This role is ideal for a proactive, detail-oriented legal professional with global experience supporting fast-paced, tech-driven companies.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing the protection of the company’s intellectual property assets, including software, trademarks, and proprietary technology.
- Overseeing the filing and maintenance of trademarks and patents.
- Managing and resolving IP-related disputes and infringement issues.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant US travel industry regulations, including DOT and FAA requirements, monitoring changes in travel laws and regulations and advising on necessary business adaptations.
- Drafting and reviewing customer terms of service, privacy policies, and other compliance documents.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts with vendors, partners, and service providers in the US and internationally.
- Advising on corporate structure, including holding company setup and inter-entity relationships.
- Overseeing compliance with corporate governance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Advising on employment matters across the US, Europe, and Mexico, ensuring compliance with local labor laws.
- Drafting and reviewing employment agreements, service provider contracts, NDAs, and non-compete agreements (NCAs).
- Providing strategic legal advice to senior leadership to support business growth and mitigate risks.
- Assisting in dispute resolution and litigation management as necessary.
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree or equivalent legal qualification and active license to practice law.
- 8+ years of legal experience, preferably in-house or with startups in the tech or travel industry.
- Strong expertise in intellectual property law, contract negotiation, corporate structure, and employment law.
- Global legal experience, particularly in managing legal matters across the US, Europe, and Mexico.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice.
- Previous experience working in a tech-enabled or travel-focused business.
- Familiarity with data privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA) and cybersecurity compliance.
- Flexible, remote work environment.
- Opportunity to work with a rapidly growing and innovative startup.
- Collaborative and dynamic team culture.
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What We Do
Voyagu is a San Francisco-based travel management platform that connects premium travelers with travel experts for better and easier planning, booking, and managing of their trips. We are passionate travel nerds who genuinely believe that technology and human professionalism can make travel better, and we are inspired to prove it to the world. The focus is on clients and giving the travel agents technology to deliver the best travel offering and the ability to elevate the overall travel experience. We are bringing the breakthrough change by developing the Voyagu platform for travel agents to create offers, sell, and do travel management and support. This solution will connect the happy triangle: the client, the travel agent, and the travel suppliers. Our office locations in the U.S., East and West Coast, Europe, and Eastern Europe give us an international presence and proximity to our partners and investors. Growing remote work footprint, we give employment opportunities for tech and travel-inspired professionals worldwide. We are a diverse team, and everyone has their personality, but there are naturally present values in all of us that make us a team united by our No BS! culture. We are honest, very ambitious, and hungry to get results, and we act with respect, accepting everyone for who they are and their belongings, even if they are different and don’t agree. In our team, we want to have diverse, open-minded, agile people who are passionate about travel and excited to grow our company together. All people who join us have evident cultural fit expressed in passion for travel, agility, focus on the result, straight talk, and no BS.
