Legal & Compliance Lead
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Legal and compliance lead building Buenro’s legal function for a destination-events marketplace. Managing contracts, KYC, GDPR, DAC7, payments compliance and external counsel.
Responsibilities:
- Draft and negotiate contracts, build templates, and map regulations market by market
- Build and maintain the contract template library, including organiser agreements, accommodation partner agreements, rev-share terms, curator equity drafting, disputes, entity setup, NDAs, DPAs and supplier terms
- Produce first drafts and redlines, negotiate with counterparties, and define escalation points for external counsel
- Agree contract turnaround standards with Sales
- Own a register of client and partner obligations, including SLAs, liability caps, data terms, exclusivity, advance facilities, guarantees, security, renewals and notice dates
- Jointly run curator deals carrying an advance with the Head of Finance
- Design and run proportionate KYC and due diligence for organisers, accommodation partners and suppliers, including sanctions and PEP screening
- Keep KYC records audit-ready and aligned with payments partners' requirements
- Build and maintain a market-by-market regulatory map covering licensing, consumer pricing and fee display rules, short-term rental rules, DAC7 platform reporting and GDPR
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical guidance for Product, Sales and Operations
- Monitor regulatory change and brief leadership on business implications
- Own the external counsel budget, panel and briefings; decide what stays in-house versus outsourced
- Track external counsel spend against budget and report monthly
- Act as the go-to for privacy and data protection, including policies, DPIAs and data subject requests
- Partner with Finance on tax and payments compliance
- Partner with People & Talent on contractor agreements
- Take over live contract work and clear the backlog during the first 30 days
- Audit existing templates and signed agreements and establish contract intake and turnaround processes
- Deliver refreshed core templates, a fallback-positions playbook, the client obligations register and initial counterparty KYC within 60 days
- Deliver a first version of the regulatory map for priority markets, confirm DAC7 and GDPR readiness, and set the external counsel budget and panel within 90 days
Requirements:
- 6-8 years in-house legal or compliance experience at a marketplace, ticketing, travel or fintech company
- A law degree or equivalent legal qualification
- Experience instructing and managing external counsel across jurisdictions
- Strong commercial contract, facility, security, drafting, and negotiation skills
- Track record of templating and speeding up deal flow
- Hands-on experience with GDPR and at least one of: DAC7 or platform tax reporting, consumer pricing and protection rules, travel or accommodation licensing
- Experience with payments regulation, marketplace payment flows or PSD2
- Experience running KYC or counterparty due diligence
- Experience managing external counsel to a budget
- Comfortable working alone as the only legal person, making risk calls and explaining them plainly to non-lawyers
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Confident using AI tools to speed up drafting, review and research, with good judgement on their limits
- Portuguese, Italian or Spanish language is nice to have, not required
- Early-stage or scale-up experience, ideally as first or sole legal hire
- Knowledge of short-term rental regulation in key European destination markets
- Familiarity with EU Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements rules
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle tools such as Ironclad, Juro or PandaDoc
Benefits:
- Paid time off with our Buenro rest week
- Fully remote, async-first work arrangement
- Real ownership to build the legal and compliance function from the ground up
- Direct access to leadership and a seat in commercial conversations from day one
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