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ID5.io

General Counsel

ID5.io

. Report directly to the CEO & Co-Founder and provide decision-ready advice to the CEO, founders and board .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in legal strategy, risk management, and corporate governance while providing decision-ready legal advice to executives and boards. Proficient in navigating complex regulatory environments, particularly in data protection and privacy laws.

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Senior Legal Decision-Maker ExperienceCommercial Contract ArchitectureGDPR Compliance and Data ProtectionCorporate Governance ManagementAdtech and Digital Identity Expertise

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Hard Skills
Legal Strategy DevelopmentRisk ManagementContract NegotiationData Protection AnalysisIntellectual Property ManagementCorporate GovernanceLegal Process ImprovementPrivacy Technology ExpertiseAcquisition IntegrationRegulatory Compliance
Soft Skills
Collaborative Business PartnershipProactive Problem SolvingLeadership and Team DevelopmentEffective CommunicationDecision-Making
Tools & Technologies
Legal ToolingContract Management SystemsData Privacy FrameworksGovernance ToolsLegal Playbooks
Certifications & Qualifications
Qualified LawyerAdmitted in Good Standing in US or UK
Industry Keywords
AdtechDigital IdentityData InfrastructurePrivacy TechnologyB2B SoftwareIAB Consent FrameworksData MarketplacesData-Broker RegulationEntity GovernanceEOR/PEO Employment Structures

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Report directly to the CEO & Co-Founder and provide decision-ready advice to the CEO, founders and board
  • Set legal and enterprise-risk strategy and own final legal sign-off
  • Lead the in-house legal team and specialist outside counsel
  • Own commercial contract architecture across customer and partner agreements, product modules, order forms, DPAs and NDAs
  • Improve templates, playbooks, delegation rules and legal tooling
  • Advise on partnerships, investments, acquisitions, integrations and other strategic initiatives
  • Oversee privacy and data-protection positions across GDPR, UK GDPR, US state privacy laws, consent frameworks, controller/processor analysis, data transfers and retention
  • Oversee material disputes and intellectual-property exposure, including strategy, preservation, discovery and resolution
  • Maintain corporate governance across entities, board materials, delegated authorities, insurance and cross-border structure
  • Support employment, marketing and other enterprise matters requiring senior legal judgment
  • Develop the in-house team, manage the legal budget and outside-counsel panel, and scale the legal function through process and technology

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Operated as the senior legal decision-maker in-house, or immediately beneath one with clear ownership of enterprise-critical matters
  • Comfortable advising founders, executives and boards
  • Strong commercial and regulatory judgment from adtech, digital identity, data infrastructure, privacy technology or a similarly complex B2B software environment
  • Ability to form defensible positions on novel data-protection questions or pressure-test specialists' positions
  • Ability to translate legal positions into practical product and contracting decisions
  • Proactive, collaborative business partnership with Commercial, Product, Engineering and People leaders
  • Ability to direct specialists and make final internal recommendations
  • Ability to develop lawyers, delegate intelligently, establish guardrails and improve legal-work processes
  • Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction
  • Admitted and in good standing in the US, UK or another jurisdiction appropriate to advising a UK-parented global technology group with significant US exposure
  • Direct adtech and identity ecosystem experience, including IAB consent frameworks, digital advertising standards, data marketplaces or data-broker regulation (nice to have)
  • Experience integrating an acquisition across jurisdictions, including entity governance, data integration, commercial migration and EOR/PEO employment structures (nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote-first working policy
  • A competitive compensation package, including stock options in ID5
  • WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations
  • Regular offsites to enjoy face-to-face time and to bond further with your colleagues
  • A dynamic environment that offers room for growth and development to all employees
  • Friendly, international, and multicultural team
  • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
  • Employees can work from different locations and time zones indefinitely
  • Tools and support for remote work
  • Regular all-hands meetings
  • Slack and Zoom communication tools