Senior Legal Counsel

Hackajob Ltd; Amsterdam; Hybrid; GBP 103,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior UK-qualified lawyer to lead legal support across product domains and customer journeys. You will partner with Product, Tech, and Commercial teams to deliver compliant growth globally.

You will drive guidance on consumer law and digital regulation, review launches and user journeys, own complex escalations, and help build guardrails and AI-powered tools while developing junior lawyers in a fast-paced, regulatory-heavy environment.

Qualifications

• Senior lawyer qualified in the United Kingdom or a relevant European jurisdiction with consumer, digital, or e-commerce expertise.
• Strong command of consumer protection law, digital regulation, platform rules and customer-facing risk.
• Proven track record advising Product, Tech, or Commercial teams on launches, regulatory requirements and user journey changes.
• Ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical guardrails for non-legal teams.
• Experience in a multi-country, consumer-facing technology or marketplace business and fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior legal support across assigned product domains and platform changes as a strategic partner to Product, Tech and Commercial teams globally.
• Provide risk-managed guidance on consumer law and digital/platform regulations to enable rapid, confident execution.
• Review product launches, user journeys and terms to define pragmatic legal mitigations balancing compliance with business aims.
• Own complex consumer/regulatory escalations end-to-end and coordinate external counsel where needed.
• Build scalable guardrails, playbooks and AI-powered legal tools for faster delivery by Product and Tech.
• Coordinate across Privacy, AI, Competition and Public Affairs to deliver joined-up advice.
• Engage with regulators, legislators and consumer bodies on behalf of Just Eat Takeaway.com.
• Coach and develop junior lawyers in product legal analysis, business partnering and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

UK-qualified lawyer

Consumer law

Digital regulation

Product/Tech advisory

Regulatory risk management

Multi-country experience

Coaching juniors

Job description

hackajob is partnering directly with Just Eat to hire for this role.

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether its a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Our dynamic Legal team is looking for a proactive leader to champion legal excellence across our product domains and customer journeys. In this critical role, you will lead senior legal support, ensuring our platform innovations align beautifully with digital regulations. By collaborating closely with Product, Tech, and Commercial squads, you will deliver strategic guidance that empowers our teams to aim high and safely evolve our global propositions with care.

Location: Amsterdam, NL / London, UK / Berlin, DE (Hybrid)

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead senior legal support across assigned product domains, customer journeys, and platform changes, acting as a strategic lead partner to Product, Tech and Commercial teams globally.

• Drive clear, risk-managed guidance on consumer law and digital/platform regulations that enables teams to move quickly and with confidence.

• Review product launches, user journey experiments, and terms defining pragmatic legal mitigations that balance regulatory 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 that allow Product and Tech teams to execute and deliver faster.

• Connect the dots across risk areas including Privacy, AI, Competition and Public Affairs to deliver joined-up, consistent advice.

• Manage engagement with regulators, legislators and consumer bodies on behalf of JET.

• Coach and develop junior lawyers in product legal analysis, business partnering and stakeholder engagement.

What will you bring to the team?

• Senior lawyer, legally qualified to practise in the United Kingdom or a relevant European jurisdiction, with 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 facilitate across regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk pathways.

• Experience in a multi-country, consumer-facing technology or marketplace business you know how to move fast without cutting corners.

• A coaching mindset: you invest in the people around you and bring junior lawyers along with you in a fast-paced, stakeholder-heavy environment.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isnt just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers loyalty, again and again. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, were building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. Were committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.