Senior Legal Counsel - Product
HybridAmsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Lead senior legal support across assigned product domains and customer journeys, acting as a strategic partner to Product, Tech, and Commercial teams globally. Drive clear, risk-managed guidance on consumer law and digital/platform regulations to enable teams to move quickly. Review product launches, user journey experiments, and terms while defining pragmatic legal mitigations that balance compliance with business ambition. Own complex consumer and regulatory escalations end-to-end, coordinating external counsel effectively where needed. Build scalable product guardrails, playbooks, and AI-powered legal tools to allow faster execution. Connect risk areas including Privacy, AI, Competition, and Public Affairs to deliver consistent advice. Manage engagement with regulators, legislators, and consumer bodies on behalf of JET while coaching junior lawyers in product legal analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Required Qualifications
- Senior lawyer, legally qualified to practise in the United Kingdom or a relevant European jurisdiction
- deep expertise in consumer, digital, or e-commerce legal matters
- Strong command of consumer protection law, digital regulation, platform rules, and customer-facing risk
- A proven track record advising Product, Tech, or Commercial teams on launches, regulatory requirements and user journey changes
- Exceptional ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical, actionable guardrails that non-legal teams can actually use
- Sound professional judgement on when and how to escalate across regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk pathways
- Experience in a multi-country, consumer-facing technology or marketplace business
Desired Qualifications
- A coaching mindset: you invest in the people around you and bring junior lawyers along with you in a fast-paced, stakeholder-heavy environment
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