Legal lead

We are looking for a Legal Lead to raise the legal bar at Payflip. You'll be our first legal hire and the in-house point of contact for every product- and client-related legal question, from social and tax law to social security. Not only at the finish line, but at the table from the very start.

Payflip started as a flexible rewards tool. Today, we're becoming Belgium's salary super app: one platform where companies and people manage their salaries and benefits. Every one of those products sits directly on top of Belgian tax and social (security) law. Each benefit comes with its own RSZ rules, fiscal treatment and joint committee constraints, and getting it wrong has real financial consequences for employers and employees.

That's why legal questions come in daily: from prospects, from clients and from our own product team. Today, they land with a bunch of different people across the company. As we grow, we want one person who owns legal quality.

You'll work closely with our Sales, Customer Success, Service and Support teams, who come to you with the hard questions, and with our product squads, who build with you. As our first legal hire, you won't have a legal team around you, but you'll have plenty of salary-savvy colleagues to spar with.

Raise the quality and consistency of Payflip's legal answers. Concretely, your job is fourfold:

Own the hard questions. When a lead or client asks a legal question that our commercial or service teams can't answer, it lands with you. You come back with a clear position and a risk assessment, not an "it depends".

Sit at the product table, from the start. You're the legal point of contact for our product team, both proactively and reactively. You don't just double-check what product has already decided: you help shape it. Say a large prospect wants to put a special premium into their flex plan. Who is entitled to it? How is it calculated? What changes with someone's working regime, and what happens at exit? You map that out before we start building, and you pressure-test features, flows, calculations and product copy against HR, tax and social security law before they ship.

Build Payflip's legal brain. You build and own our internal, AI-fuelled legal database: current, structured and usable by non-lawyers. The goal: Payflip AI answers most recurring legal questions correctly, so your time goes to the questions that really need you.

Own the relationship with our external law firms. You filter, frame and escalate the questions that truly need outside counsel, and translate the answers back into clear internal guidance.

The tricky part? Bringing together what the rule says, what the market does, what the client expects and how Payflip looks at salary, and turning that into one answer a client can act on.

To be clear: this is not a corporate or commercial contracting role, and not an HR (people) role. The focus is substantive HR law (social, tax and social security law) applied to our product and our clients.

After 12 months, we'd love to see:

• Our internal legal database live and adopted, with Payflip AI answering the majority of recurring legal questions at a 90% accuracy rate

• Escalated lead and client questions answered within 24 hours, with a clear position and risk assessment

• All escalations to external law firms routed through you, with one framing, and external legal spend staying flat while we grow

• A working legal review loop with product: no feature ships with an unresolved legal risk

You would be a good fit with our team if most of this sounds like you:

• 3-5 years of advisory experience in Belgian HR law. At a law firm, consultancy, social secretariat or a Big 4 employment/reward practice, with a proven track record advising clients on social, tax and social security matters. Now you're ready to move in-house at a scaling SaaS company.

• Solid, opinionated expertise. You know social law, tax law and social security inside out, and you have a view on how to apply them.

• Pragmatic, not a rule-keeper. You give a workable answer with a clear risk position. You translate Payflip's stance on salary and market practice into concrete steps for clients, not vague legal summaries. Managing risk shouldn't mean blocking product or commercial decisions.

• You make legal complexity simple. Clear, actionable answers for non-lawyers are your thing. You're just as comfortable in front of a prospect or client as in a product discussion.

• Tech-minded. You're comfortable turning legal rules into structured logic, working alongside product and engineering, and using AI and tooling to scale legal work. You'd rather productise knowledge than answer the same question twice.

• A knowledge builder. You know how to structure and maintain a legal database that others actually use.

• Sound judgement. You know what really needs external counsel and what doesn't.

• High ownership and autonomy. You don't need a large legal team or hierarchy around you to operate.

• Feedback-driven, with a growth mindset. You take feedback well, apply it fast, and are eager to learn our product inside out.

• Fluent in English and Dutch or French.

Can't tick every box? No worries. Above all we value a high internal drive, curiosity and strong potential: convincing us of this in the hiring process is guaranteed to make you a Payflip'er!

Payflip's mission is to thoroughly shake up the Belgian compensation landscape. Do you have health insurance, group insurance, a company car, a bike lease, meal vouchers, and a flex plan spread across six different tools? And an incomprehensible monthly payslip in yet another one?

Gone are these days. Enter: Payflip's salary super app.

One platform, all salary stuff. That way, every employee truly has their salary in their own hands, and an employer wastes less time on fragmented admin. The result? More focus on the team's financial literacy. Without administrative headaches for the HR team.

We're a young, fast-growing start-up. A quirky bunch of software developers, product designers, account executives, support specialists & customer success managers. Joining the Payflip community means becoming part of a tight-knit team where you can take on clear responsibilities and grow with the organization. Let's put it this way: a Payflip'er smells the opportunity of ownership from miles away!

Our company culture revolves around 3 pillars:

Transparency. We are 100% transparent with everything that happens in the company. We tell each other everything. There is not even one Google Drive file in our archive that is not accessible for all.

Eagerness to learn. You have at least 1 day per month dedicated to learning. Together with your team, you investigate market trends or fix company inefficiencies you choose yourself.

Ownership. As we are a growing team, we'd better all make our hands dirty if we want to step up our game. In order to thrive, you will have to come out of your comfort zone and take up responsibilities, just like all of us.

At Payflip, everyone is an entrepreneur! And because we walk the talk, each team member receives meaningful equity of the company. Growing together at its best!

We want to remain true to our mission and therefore provide the most optimized salary package in the Belgian SME market. You will receive:

• A transparent salary based on your impact (check our salary grid here)

• Meaningful equity (stock options)

• Top-notch flexible reward plan

• The Alan healthcare package

• Meal vouchers (through Payflip, of course) and eco vouchers

• A mobility budget or company car

• Remote work as much as you prefer: our office is opposite Brussels Central Station, but we also offer coworking in Antwerp (Silversquare) and Ghent (Wintercircus)

• Home office compensation

• An L&D budget so you can further develop yourself

• Workation? You get a generous remote working budget for coworking spaces in Belgium and abroad!

Payflip uses an open salary grid and for this vacancy we're aiming to hire for the B1-2/B2 range.