Head of Legal

Safety Wing

Head of Legal owning legal function at SafetyWing, building a global social safety net. Overseeing legal projects and collaborating with teams on compliance and regulatory matters.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

- 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
- 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 in the face of any problems.
- Have strong integrity and do the right thing.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Legal AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceProject ManagementRisk AssessmentDocumentation Management

Soft Skills

IntegrityResilienceSolution-Oriented MindsetIntellectual CuriosityCreativity