Product Legal Counsel (Parental leave)

Job Description

We’re looking for a person to join our team temporarily, while one of our teammates is on parental leave. The position will last up to 12 months, and will give you the opportunity to make contacts at Wix and get to know the way we work. In your day to day, you’ll:

• Advise on a broad-range of legal aspects relating to the heart of our business, including product and feature reviews
• Build and implement new and creative solutions to improve workflows and assist in cross-company activities to promote legal awareness
• Analyze current global consumer protection regulations and follow up on ongoing updates
• Provide ongoing legal counsel on a wide range of commercial issues like agreement negotiations with third parties
• Provide internal legal support to different teams at Wix, working closely with our product and operational teams to ensure all legal aspects are covered
• Work with external counsel (in Israel and abroad) and implement business-enabling solutions
  
  

Qualifications:

• A licensed lawyer with 3+ years of experience as in-house counsel for a hi-tech company or prominent law firm
• Fluent in English (reading, writing, and speaking)
• Diligent, hardworking and an excellent multitasker
• You enjoy learning and researching new legal aspects as they appear
• You’re a team player who cares about your work and your clients
• Experience with fintech and payment legal issues - an advantage
  
  

About The Team

We are Wix’s Legal team. We deal with some of the biggest legal challenges of the information age, giving us new insight into legal issues. We’re always expecting the unexpected and adding more tools to our legal toolkit so we can handle anything. Wix’s innovative services raise challenges when cutting-edge technology faces the law. We have a fun and young start-up vibe, an open-door policy, and use creative and practical approaches to solve interesting and diverse legal challenges daily.

About Wix:

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online.

Since 2006, we've grown to around 5,500 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 243 million users and their visitors worldwide.

At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together at a high level.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as an employer: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.