Legal Counsel (Contracts)

Sumsub; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sumsub, a leading verification platform, is seeking a proactive Legal Counsel to enhance the legal workflows within their dynamic environment. The role involves reviewing contracts, drafting legal documents, and collaborating with various stakeholders while ensuring compliance. This position offers flexible remote options and significant growth opportunities within a rapidly expanding team.

Benefits

Fully remote and flexible working schedule

Extra day off to celebrate your birthday

Additional days off for Christmas & New Year holidays

Sick leave without the need for documentation

Regular team offsites

Support for attending industry events

Qualifications

• 3+ years working experience in an international environment.
• Extensive experience in drafting and negotiating legal documents in English.
• Good knowledge of civil law, corporate law, and private international law.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and assessing contracts and agreements.
• Drafting and systematizing contractual templates and notices.
• Collaborating with internal teams to streamline contract processes.

Skills

Attention to detail

Negotiation

Conflict management

Drafting legal documents

Education

University degree in law (LL.B., preferably LL.M.)

Job description

Sumsub is the one verification platform to secure the whole user journey. With Sumsub’s customizable KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention solutions, you can orchestrate your verification process, welcome more customers worldwide, meet compliance requirements, reduce costs and protect your business.

Sumsub has over 4000 clients across the fintech, crypto, transportation, trading and gaming industries including Duolingo, Bitpanda, Wirex, Avis, Exness, Flippa, italki, Bybit, LBANK, Gett, Kaizen Gaming, and TransferGo.

Our products are recognised by industry leaders like Gartner's Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave and Frost Radar.

We’re seeking a strong Legal Counsel to support Sumsub’s growth in legal matters. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and unafraid of building and optimizing new legal processes. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by structuring and streamlining legal workflows in a fast-paced, vibrant environment.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Reviewing and risk-based assessment of income & expenditure contracts (service/partnership agreements, multi-profile vendor and supplier contracts, etc.) daily
• Providing support in RFP procedures where custom contractual terms are part of the tender documentation
• Drafting, amendment, and systematization of the company's contractual templates, legally binding notices and correspondence, contract-related internal policies to accommodate new use cases, products, customers' requests, etc
• Communicating with counterparties and stakeholders, negotiations, strategic planning, and conflict management regarding prospective and existing contracts at any life stage of a deal
• Collaborating with internal teams to streamline the contract review process, including exploring and implementing contract automation tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual workload
• Assisting other departments (e.g., billing, sales, business development, product, litigation) on contract-related matters

About You:
Must have

• University degree in law (LL.B., preferably LL.M.)
• 3+ years of working experience in an international environment
• Extensive experience in drafting / reviewing / negotiating legal documents (contracts, legal opinions, memorandums, etc.) in English
• Good knowledge of the general principles of civil law, corporate law, and private international law
• Strong discipline, integrity, responsibility, and attention to detail

Highly preferable

• General understanding of privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to GDPR and other major data protection frameworks
• Knowledge of the common law system (or the laws of England and Wales specifically), experience of working with contracts governed by English law

Nice to have

• Working experience in a consulting firm and/or an IT/regtech company
• Familiarity with the principles of AML/KYC compliance

What We Offer:

• Fully remote and flexible working schedule, with access to a coworking space (in some locations)
• Working with a product that matters. Our technology helps to protect millions of users and lots of online services worldwide
• International project. Our team works from offices in Berlin, Limassol, London, and Miami, our customers are spread from Mexico and the USA to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore
• 1 extra day off to celebrate your birthday
• 7 additional days to enjoy the Christmas & New Year holidays
• 7 days of sick leave (without the need for documentation)
• Regular, fully covered team offsites to connect and collaborate
• Learning opportunities and support to attend industry events with the team

The hiring stages:TA screening -> Hiring Manager Interview -> Assignment -> Final Interview.

Sounds like a great opportunity for your career development? Then go ahead and apply!

We are a global community of innovators, creators, and thinkers, and we believe that diversity fuels our innovation. Sumsub is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Join us in shaping the future inclusively.