Head of Legal

Codeway

Head of Legal managing compliance, privacy, and legal operations in a fast-growing mobile app company. Collaborating with teams to build legal systems and frameworks for sustainable growth.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeBarcelona • 🇪🇸 SpainLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Managing Compliance across our entire publisher portfolio - escalations, account issues, ban recovery, policy interpretation.
Developing playbooks for managing platform risk across 60+ apps on shared publisher accounts.
Building a durable privacy infrastructure: consent flows, data requests, breach protocols, cookie policy.
Designing the legal operating model - how decisions get made, how risk is assessed, how external counsel is deployed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of legal experience with meaningful time in consumer tech or direct-to-consumer mobile
Deep, hands-on experience in consumer tech or direct-to-consumer mobile apps
Real depth in GDPR and privacy law as applied to app-driven, subscription-based businesses
Experience building for scale from day one: every decision, every playbook, every process should be built to last.
Knowledge in Commercial law
Operating as a creative partner to the business
Experience across multiple jurisdictions (US, UK, EU) is a nice to have.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GDPRprivacy lawcommercial lawrisk assessmentpolicy interpretationdata requestsbreach protocolsconsent flowsplaybook developmentlegal operating model

Soft Skills

creative partnershipproblem-solvingcommunicationdecision-makingorganizational skills