Director of Legal Affairs, EMEA

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with a mission to revolutionize the payroll and payments industry. With over $400M raised from top-tier investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

As part of our continued growth, we’re expanding our in-house Legal Team and are now looking for a Director of Legal Affairs, EMEA to join us. Our ideal candidate is an experienced High-Tech/technology lawyer with both law firm and in-house experience.

As a Legal Director, you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts, including services agreements and vendor agreements, privacy matters, as well as other general corporate and privacy law advice.

You will:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of legal contracts with clients, partners, vendors, and third parties (services agreements, DPAs, SaaS license agreements).
• Interact and work with the company's departments (Sales, Product, Finance, Marketing) on diverse legal issues providing legal support and recommendations.
• Update and create both internal procedures and external company wide legal policies.
• Perform and provide other general corporate law advice as needed.
• Manage and oversee a Legal team.

Requirements:

• A licensed attorney with 5-8 years' experience in a High-Tech department of a law firm and In-house commercial legal counsel.
• Proven legal experience in negotiations, data protection and process building.
• Fluent English (written and oral).
• Attention to detail.
• Exceptional interpersonal, organizational and time-management skills.
• Self-motivated and persistent.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.