Sumsub is the one verification platform to secure the whole user journey. With Sumsub’s customizable KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention solutions, you can orchestrate your verification process, welcome more customers worldwide, meet compliance requirements, reduce costs and protect your business.
Sumsub has over 2,500 clients across the fintech, crypto, transportation, trading and gaming industries including Bitpanda, Wirex, Avis, Bybit, Huobi, Kaizen Gaming, and TransferGo.
We’re seeking a strong
Legal Counsel to support Sumsub’s growth in legal matters. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and unafraid of building and optimizing new legal processes. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by structuring and streamlining legal workflows in a fast-paced, vibrant environment.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Reviewing and risk-based assessment of income & expenditure contracts (service/partnership agreements, multi-profile vendor and supplier contracts, etc.) daily
- Providing support in RFP procedures where custom contractual terms are part of the tender documentation
- Drafting, amendment, and systematization of the company's contractual templates, legally binding notices and correspondence, contract-related internal policies to accommodate new use cases, products, customers' requests, etc.
- Communicating with counterparties and stakeholders, negotiations, strategic planning, and conflict management regarding prospective and existing contracts at any life stage of a deal
- Collaborating with internal teams to streamline the contract review process, including exploring and implementing contract automation tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual workload.
- Assisting other departments (e.g., billing, sales, business development, product, litigation) on contract-related matters.
About you:
Must have
- University degree in law (LL.B., preferably LL.M.)
- 3+ years of working experience in an international environment
- Extensive experience in drafting / reviewing / negotiating legal documents (contracts, legal opinions, memorandums, etc.) in English
- Good knowledge of the general principles of civil law, corporate law, and private international law
- Strong discipline, integrity, responsibility, and attention to detail.
Highly preferable
- General understanding of privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to GDPR and other major data protection frameworks
- Knowledge of the common law system (or the laws of England and Wales specifically), experience of working with contracts governed by English law.
Nice to have
- Working experience in a consulting firm and/or an IT / regtech company
- Familiarity with the principles of AML/KYC compliance.
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation in compliance with your professional expertise and a bonus program
- Working with a product that matters. Our technology helps to protect millions of users and many online services worldwide.
- International project. Our team works from offices in Berlin, Limassol, London, and Miami, our customers are spread from Mexico and the USA to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore.
- Remote first company – work from anywhere in the world
- Paid vacation and sick leave.
Excited about this opportunity for your career growth? We’d love to see you apply!
We are a global community of innovators, creators, and thinkers, and we believe that diversity fuels our innovation. Sumsub is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Join us in shaping the future inclusively.
