Legal Counsel

PicsArt; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team at a leading creative platform where you will provide essential legal guidance across various domains. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with product and marketing teams, ensuring compliance with laws related to privacy, data security, and intellectual property. You'll be part of a collaborative culture that values feedback and personal growth, allowing your contributions to make a significant impact. If you are passionate about law and technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow your career.

Benefits

Well-being benefits

Hybrid work model

Professional development opportunities

Open culture emphasizing feedback

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of relevant PQE, including law firm and in-house experience.
• Experience with US and international law on privacy and data security.

Responsibilities

• Review customer-facing products to provide legal advice and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety teams to ensure lawful content.

Skills

Commercial negotiation

Legal drafting

Privacy law

Data security

Intellectual property

Consumer protection

Problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Education

Law degree

Job description

Picsart’s mission is to empower the creator in everyone. The world’s leading creative platform and social editing app, we are loved by more than 100 million monthly active creators with over a billion downloads. We are looking for a passionate and driven lawyer to join our Legal team that values creativity, collaboration, and principled risk taking.

In this role you will work with talented people throughout the company, in particular as a key advisor to our Product, Research & Insights, Data, Marketing and Information Security teams. You’ll have a broad range of responsibilities providing pragmatic legal guidance that cuts across many areas of law and jurisdictions, especially in the areas of artificial intelligence, content regulation, intellectual property, licensing, data security and privacy, and consumer protection. We have minimal hierarchy, and your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. This role is hybrid, and candidates should be based in London. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast, fun, global team as we scale new heights.

By joining us, you will benefit from

• An honest, open culture that emphasises feedback and promotes professional and personal development.
• Hybrid work model — our team is distributed worldwide, from Armenia to US, UK, Germany, Spain and Romania.
• Well-being benefits (including a monthly well-being fund).
• Growing opportunities — based on your preference, you can grow in the company as a people manager or individual contributor.
• An environment that fosters innovation and creativity, a culture with the ability to pilot new trends.

You will

• Review Picsart’s customer-facing products, tools, features, and initiatives to provide practical legal advice and risk mitigation strategies.
• Proactively advise product teams on issues related to management and use of data collected and processed by Picsart services, and organize and drive legal processes that apply privacy by design.
• Collaborate closely with Picsart’s Trust & Safety teams to protect our customers and ensure content posted to our services is lawful, safe and trustworthy.
• Contribute to the continued development, maintenance and improvement of Picsart’s global privacy program including effective policies, procedures, and documentation.
• Draft and manage the implementation of terms of use, internal and external policies, consumer disclosures, and other consumer-facing communication.
• Draft, negotiate, and advise a wide range of commercial agreements including intellectual property licenses, releases, MSAs and SOWs, co-marketing and partnership agreements, SaaS agreements, data processing agreements, and many more.
• Advise on and resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships.
• Provide practical and creative guidance on a wide range of legal and business requests.
• Keep current on relevant U.S. and international laws and regulations, especially those related to content regulation, artificial intelligence, social media law, privacy and data protection, and consumer protection.
• Collaborate with other legal team members to share ideas, teach and learn from each other, and improve how we work.
• Create training materials and scalable processes.

About you

• 4-7+ years of relevant PQE, including both law firm and in-house, preferably including experience with start-ups or high-growth technology companies.
• Experience with US and international law on privacy and data security, intellectual property, and consumer protection.
• Fluency translating legal advice into actionable and pragmatic guidance for business teams.
• Product counseling experience at a technology company and familiarity with generative AI is a plus.
• Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills.
• Exceptional communication skills, oral and written, making complex concepts simple.
• Sound and practical business judgment and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner with internal business clients.
• Experience with intellectual property licensing.
• Excitement to learn new technologies and areas of law.

What we seek and value most in our candidates: professionalism in both soft and hard skills; motivation to grow, learn and share, positive attitude, flexibility, transparency, ownership and the most important - passion and commitment. Picsart is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law. Picsart, Inc. is an E-Verify Employer in the US.