About &Open

We are a fast-growing B2B SAAS corporate gifting platform, empowering companies to build meaningful connections through thoughtful, personalized gifts. As we scale we’re looking for a for commercially-savvy and operationally-minded Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing team.

About the role

You’ll report directly to our CEO and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across the business. This is a key hire to help iterate, streamline and scale our internal legal processes, supporting both product innovation and business expansion globally.
This is a unique opportunity to own and build out our legal function from the inside, navigating global legal challenges in a scaling business.

What you'll do?

Be a legal advisor to cross-functional teams:

• Lead negotiations for a wide variety of contracts: SaaS agreements, DPAs, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, vendor and enterprise customer agreements.
• Maintain and update legal templates, playbooks, and enablement tools.
• Streamline legal processes and support international expansion and new market entry.
• Advise on GDPR, commercial, corporate, insurance, logistics, and compliance matters.
• Build strong internal relationships and act as the go-to legal point of contact.
• Educate teams on contract terms, risks, and best practices.
• Develop and implement policies and workflows to enable fast, risk-aware decision making.

Support privacy and compliance initiatives:

• Assist customer privacy  teams with understanding &Open’s data handling practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and operations to ensure privacy-by-design principles are upheld and compliance with AI governance.
• Support our Global Privacy Programme and own key documentation and process reviews.
• Stay up to date with evolving privacy regulations.

Assist with strategic and corporate legal matters:

• Support legal aspects of business model changes, new product areas, and investment initiatives.
• Assist CFO and external counsel with board matters, corporate governance and stock option schemes.
• Help manage IP including trademarks and patents.
• Provide legal support on HR and employment-related matters.

What you'll need

• You are an Irish-qualified solicitor or barrister with 6+ years of relevant experience.
• You are a commercial, strategic thinker who understands how legal and business goals align.
• You have strong contract negotiation skills and experience across commercial, tech, and privacy matters in a B2B context.
• You’ve worked in both law firm and in-house environments (ideally supporting a sales team).
• You’re a self-starter with a proactive, solution-focused mindset.
• You thrive in fast-paced environments and have a no-task-too-small attitude.
• You’re confident advising senior stakeholders and simplifying complex legal topics for cross-functional teams.
• Experience with international legal frameworks and projects is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity package.
• Flexible, remote-friendly working (with occasional team meetups).
• Opportunity to grow into a senior strategy or operations leadership role as we scale.
• Company Pension
• Healthcare cover
• 25 days Annual Leave + 2 Company Days
• Maternity and Paternity Paid Leave
• Exciting experience in a fast-paced start-up environment

Location

Dublin

All Welcome Here Statement

We believe diverse teammates, opinions, and backgrounds generate a larger global impact and more considerate acts of care. &Open is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.