Legal Counsel

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Salary: €83,000–€90,000 gross per year, including 8% holiday allowance

Company

Education technology company serving schools, universities, and public education bodies across EMEA, APAC, and the US.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate customer, vendor, and reseller contracts end to end.
• Own data processing agreement and service-level agreement guidance for customer and partner agreements.
• Handle employment matters, including non-competes, terminations, and contractor agreements.
• Support GDPR, privacy, accessibility, AI regulation, and other education technology compliance work.
• Manage corporate governance matters, including board resolutions, entity management, equity matters, signatures, and powers of attorney.
• Build legal operations through intake processes, SOPs, contract tooling, inbox triage, and external counsel management.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in commercial, vendor, and reseller contract work.
• Experience broadening into employment, compliance, or corporate governance matters.
• 8+ years of legal practice, including substantial in-house experience as generalist counsel.
• Experience negotiating contracts under unfamiliar legal systems.
• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, proactive risk identification, and the ability to work independently.
• Availability for 32–40 hours per week across 4–5 days, with flexibility to support a global sales team across time zones.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of Dutch employment law and GDPR.
• Dutch or other bar qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 paid holidays per year plus a birthday day off.
• Advantageous pension scheme and travel allowance.
• Three days of volunteering leave per year.
• €550 annual learning and development budget plus three paid learning days.
• Swapfiets subscription, free office gym access, and mental health support through OpenUp in the EU, US, and Australia.