Position: Head of Legal
Company: SKELAR
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**SKELAR** is a product IT company where we recreated the venture capital world. As venture builder, we kick off and run startups with a focus on analytics, data, and machine learning.

We are looking for a Head of Legal at a venture builder level with a focus on product compliance, primarily in Tier-1 geos (USA, EU, UK, etc.).

This is a crucial role in achieving our vision — helping our founders build at least 5 sustainable $100M+ businesses with a market cap potential. It entails not only legal but also business decisions and a huge impact on portfolio companies and their prospects.

**What you’ll do:**
— Lead, develop, and recruit a team of legal and compliance practitioners to deliver and implement the compliance agenda;
— Design legal compliance guidance covering primarily US and EU consumer protection, B2C marketing, IP, and data privacy legislation;
— Assess the risks of our business models, implement comprehensive and business-oriented solutions for risks mitigation;
— Implement compliance programs on all business/product/marketing aspects, i.e. from the legal analysis of business models to the design of ToU and payment pages;
— Liaise with tier-1 US and EU legal firms to conduct in-depth legal research on various business risks (B2B SaaS, online-services market-place, entertainment platform, etc.);
— Participate as a member of the portfolio company board(s) of directors, focusing on growth opportunities via a compliance lens;
— Develop trust-based counselling relationships with portfolio executives and senior leadership;
— You will report directly to the senior executive business partner of SKELAR.

**What we offer:**
— Significant exposure to impacting high-growth businesses and designing what they will look like (imagine you were brought by Benchmark to fuel sustainable growth of Uber);
— Work along with people coming from top-tier local and international companies (Big Law, McKinsey, Horizon, Bolt, Didi, etc.);
— Flat organization structure with significant liaison with founders and decision-makers;
— Competitive salary and benefits with a performance-related compensation model;
— An outstanding candidate will have the opportunity to be promoted to a partner in 2-3 years.

**Starter kit needed to join the team:**
— 5-8 years of experience in either big law firms / legal boutiques / top-tier local or international companies;
— High level of critical thinking — your decisions will literally affect business top- and bottom line;
— Law degree from a top-tier Ukrainian or foreign university;
— Fluent legal/business English. Advanced drafting skills;
— Proactive self-starter.

**Our ideal profile:**
— Previous professional exposure (including in-house) to tech sector (marketplaces, B2C platforms, ride-hailing, etc.);
— Expertise in US and EU consumer protection law, IP / data-protection law, and commercial law (i.e., FTC Act, ROSCA, CAN-SPAM ACT, GDPR, etc.);
— Advanced degree: LLM, MLB, MBA or other;
— Certifications: CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM or other;
— Proven management experience.