Senior Lawyer

MGID is a global native advertising platform that helps brands reach unique local audiences at scale. At MGID, we empower brands and publishers to collaborate transparently through our privacy-first targeting technology. This enables advertisers to drive performance and awareness while allowing publishers to retain and monetize their audiences. Today, we’re creating innovative technologies, and with your help, we aim to reach even greater heights.

We are looking for a Senior Lawyer to join our global Legal Department and support strategic optimization, transformation, and governance initiatives across the MGID Group.

In this role, you will act as a senior legal partner for complex cross-functional projects involving Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, Data Protection, Operations, and business teams. You will help ensure that business transformation initiatives are legally sound, properly structured, and effectively implemented.

This position is ideal for an experienced legal professional who combines strong legal expertise with project management, process improvement, business-oriented thinking, and the ability to work independently in an international environment.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic Legal Projects and Transformation

• Lead and support legal workstreams within strategic optimization and transformation projects across the MGID Group.

• Provide legal input into initiatives related to contract management implementation, legal budgeting, corporate and tax optimization, governance improvements, internal controls, and operational restructuring.

• Translate legal advice and external counsel recommendations into practical implementation steps, internal guidance, and business-facing action plans.

• Coordinate cross-functional project work involving Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, Data Protection, Operations, and business teams.
  

Legal Process Optimization and Governance

• Support the design, improvement, and documentation of internal legal processes, approval flows, authority frameworks, contract governance rules, signing procedures, and internal controls.

• Develop, update, and maintain internal legal policies, procedures, guidelines, templates, playbooks, and process documentation.

• Identify inefficiencies, documentation gaps, and legal risks within existing workflows and propose practical improvements.

• Support the implementation of more structured legal reporting, tracking and process monitoring for key legal initiatives.
  

Corporate, Tax, and Group Structure Support

• Support projects related to corporate structure optimization, group governance, intercompany arrangements, internal service models and tax/corporate restructuring.

• Coordinate with external legal, tax and corporate advisers across relevant jurisdictions.

• Review and prepare corporate documents, internal approvals, powers of attorney, board / shareholder materials, intercompany documents and related supporting documentation.

• Assess legal risks connected with proposed structural or operational changes and prepare recommendations for mitigation.

Business Partnering and Cross-Functional Support

• Act as a senior legal partner for Finance, HR, Tax, Compliance, DPO, Operations and business teams on project-based legal matters.

• Provide practical legal advice on complex operational, corporate, employment-related, finance-related and governance matters.

• Support budgeting and cost-control initiatives from a legal perspective, including review of legal spend, external counsel engagement models and approval procedures.

• Ensure that legal recommendations are aligned with business needs, risk appetite, internal policies and applicable law.

Documentation, Reporting & Management Support

• Prepare legal memoranda, risk assessments, project summaries, implementation plans, management notes and internal guidance materials.

• Support preparation of materials for management review and decision-making on key legal and transformation projects.

• Maintain structured documentation for legal projects, including decisions, approvals, risks, action items and implementation status.

• Escalate material legal, compliance, governance or implementation risks to the CLO / Head of Legal in a timely manner.