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Head of Legal

SafetyWing
Remote Full-time Worldwide Software Development
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Description

🧘 What we offer

  • Fully remote work environment – work from anywhere globally
  • Unlimited time off
  • Equity compensation
  • Our own Global Safety Net, giving you worldwide health, income, and travel coverage
  • Personal development and office budgets
  • A new laptop when you need one
  • Annual team gathering in amazing locations - our previous meetups were in Iceland, Vietnam and Argentina
🚀 We look forward to hearing from you!
At SafetyWing (YC W18), we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers - simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems. Our mission is to remove geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunity and freedom for everyone. If we succeed, we believe this will be one of the most important tasks of our time.

🌎 About this Role

As our Head of Legal, you will own our legal function, working with legislation across multiple countries. This is a builder role - you'll lead complex legal projects from start to finish, do the deep work yourself, and get leverage through strong relationships with external counsel and, over time, a small internal team.

You'll work closely with our product, sales, and operations teams on all legal matters, with a focus on clear, practical guidance that helps us move fast and make confident decisions. You’ll play a key role in shaping how SafetyWing builds and scales regulated insurance products globally.

👩‍💻 Your responsibilities will include:
  • Own and drive legal and regulatory projects across SafetyWing’s products
  • Partner with product teams to work through legal and regulatory trade-offs as products grow and expand into new markets
  • Help teams operate confidently in regulated environments by turning complex legal and regulatory questions into clear, actionable guidance
  • Work hands-on with international regulatory frameworks, including insurance, data privacy, consumer protection, and advertising laws
  • Coordinate and manage regulatory filings and submissions
  • Support the resolution of material disputes and regulatory issues alongside internal stakeholders and external partners
  • Build structure, documentation, and repeatable processes so legal work can scale with the company

🧪 We are looking for someone who has

  • Is a qualified lawyer with strong commercial judgment and experience working closely with product, operations, or business teams
  • Has experience in regulated environments and enjoys getting up to speed on new legal and regulatory areas
  • Has strong project management skills and likes owning complex problems end-to-end
  • Thinks practically about risk and understands how legal decisions affect product, sales, and growth
  • Knows their limits and works well with external counsel to fill the gaps
  • Is comfortable with ambiguity, takes initiative, and moves work forward independently
  • Brings integrity, resilience, and a solution-oriented mindset

😀 We like to work with people who:
  • Want to help build a global social safety net on the Internet.
  • Think for themselves instead of copying others.
  • Are willing to try new things, even with the risk of failure.
  • Are intellectually curious and open to new ideas.
  • Are creative and bold i…

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