Senior Legal Counsel (fixed-term) (Vinted, UAB)

Job description:
As Senior Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for advising product and business teams on consumer law and regulatory topics from early ideation through to launch. You’ll join the Product Legal team, part of Vinted's Marketplace Legal function, which helps shape user-facing features safely and effectively. In this role, you will report to the Product Legal Team Lead and work closely with product leads, designers, engineers, and colleagues across the wider Legal team
Covering a maternity leave until December '27, we’re looking for a self-motivated expert who can get up to speed quickly, take early initiative, and independently steer product legal matters from the start.
In this position, you’ll
Be the lead lawyer for several product domains, with responsibility for reviewing product specs and requests from product, design and other business teams, and giving clear, practical advice
Own consumer law compliance for your areas across the EU, the UK, the US and our other market
Give clear, firm positions on difficult questions, balancing legal risk with what the business is trying to achieve
Lead complex projects that cut across product teams and legal areas, from first scoping through to delivery
Explain complex legal risk in plain terms to different audiences, from product teams to senior leadership
Deal with authorities and regulators on your topics, including handling their requests and engaging with them directly
Decide when external counsel is needed, manage them, and turn their advice into guidance the business can act on
Help build guidance, playbooks and training so product teams can answer common questions themselves
Requirements:
A seasoned legal professional with extensive in-house experience and a proven track record navigating consumer law within a tech, e-commerce, or marketplace business
Deep knowledge of EU consumer law and a track record of applying it to digital products
Experience leading compliance work across several jurisdictions
Commercially minded, with a good sense of how legal risk plays out for the business and for other legal teams
Confident with senior stakeholders, able to hold your own in product and leadership discussions and give a view on the spot
Experience dealing with regulators or consumer authorities
Excellent written and spoken English
Enjoys working in a multicultural team with lots of cross-functional work, and actively gives and asks for feedback
Interested in tech and how online marketplaces work
Nice to have
Advantage: UK consumer law experience
Company offers:
The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
25 working days of holiday
Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
Private health insurance
Pension plan with flexible contribution options and a matching contribution from Vinted
Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your…