Legal Counsel

Cover Genius; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cover Genius is seeking a Legal Counsel to support its global growth across the EU/EEA. You will collaborate with sales, insurance, marketing, compliance, and product teams to apply practical legal advice and navigate evolving regulations.

The role focuses on risk identification, contract negotiation, and cross-functional partnering to enable the business while balancing commercial objectives with legal risk.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in legal roles within financial services, fintech, digital or technology environments.
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and vendor contracts.
• Strong understanding of privacy, data protection and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including NDAs and distribution agreements.
• Provide practical legal advice and counsel on transactional matters and corporate actions.
• Triage requests and escalate to senior counsels or VP of Legal as needed.
• Conduct legal research and deliver practical risk assessments and recommendations.
• Monitor regulatory developments affecting the business; advise on impact.

Skills

Legal experience

Contract review

Regulatory compliance

AI governance

Education

Law degree (UK/EU)

Tools

AI platforms (Claude, Gemini)

Job description

About Cover Genius

Cover Genius is the global infrastructure for embedded protection. Active in over 60 countries and all 50 US States, we protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines, Tongcheng Travel, eBay, and Uber, with seamless, end-to-end experiences. Cover Genius has protected more than 73M customers globally across 240M policies with USD $3.2BN in gross written sales. Coming off a stellar year with 40% YoY revenue growth and a recent $100M capital raise, putting our valuation at $1.9BN, we are accelerating into our next phase of growth. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap, developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure, while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market. Our people are: Accountable, customer-obsessed, collaborative, driven. Our people are not: Passive, defensive, siloed, hesitant.

About The Role

As a Legal Counsel on our Legal team, you will support the company’s growing business and provide support as we scale. As a team member of an innovative insurance intermediary involved in transactions across the globe, the Legal Counsel will work cross functionally with the sales, insurance, marketing, compliance, and product teams to apply their expertise and practical advice. To drive success in this role, you will proactively identify risks, provide practical guidance and support the business in navigating an evolving regulatory environment in the European Economic Area.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including non disclosure agreements, insurance distribution agreements, binding authority agreements, and vendor agreements that support and enable our global business operations.
• Provide clear, actionable, and commercially minded legal advice and counsel to the business on transactional legal matters and proposed corporate actions and projects.
• Triage business requests and appropriately elevate to other Senior Legal Counsels or the VP of Legal
• Conduct legal research and provide clear, practical risk assessments and recommendations.
• Monitor relevant legal developments and assess their impact on the business.
• Support the pragmatic resolution of legal matters.

Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of experience either at a law firm or in-house (or combination thereof), preferably with experience in financial services, fintech, digital or technology-focused environments.
• A track record of pragmatic and commercially-led business partnering.
• Law degree from an accredited university in the United Kingdom or a European Union country.
• Active privacy certifications strongly preferred: CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, or the IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) credential.
• Experience scaling privacy operations through legal-tech automation and AI-enabled workflows.
• Practical, daily experience leveraging generative AI platforms (e.g., Claude, Gemini or custom LLMs) to streamline legal workflows. Proven ability to craft structured legal prompts for contract review, regulatory research, and data mapping, while rigorously validating AI outputs for accuracy and compliance

What You Will Have

• A people person with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work in a fast paced workplace/company, complying with short internal SLAs
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously.
• A demonstrated ability to drive execution in a team environment, integrating legal advice and business knowledge while providing balanced and pragmatic advice regarding risks and benefits
• Able to see the bigger picture and balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• Curiosity and a willingness to expand your practice and explore new areas of the law, including corporate law, privacy law, insurance law and ICT law .

Why Cover Genius?

• Make today matter: We deliver with urgency and excellence. We act decisively, move with intention, and hold a high bar.
• Act with accountability: We own our commitments and take pride in delivering results that move us forward.
• Grow together: We are a collective of curious minds. We learn from wins and setbacks, share knowledge generously, and elevate each other every day.
• Inspire each other: We push each other to think bigger and pull together to go further.
• Champion our customers: We lead with empathy and center the customer, turning complex disruptions into seamless moments of trust.

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Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.