General Counsel

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Looking for a new adventure? You've come to the right place.

We're an Amsterdam based team of 85+ with 25+ nationalities, all united by a shared goal: change the way people travel.

Polarsteps powers an app that lets 18 million travelers capture, plan, and relive their journeys. With ambitious plans to grow to 100 million monthly users, we need more talented people on board.

General Counsel - Part time / Fractional (2-3 days per week)

As we scale, we're looking for an outstanding General Counsel to guide us through the legal, privacy, and compliance side of this adventure. Someone who thrives in motion: balancing legal rigour with commercial pragmatism, structure with speed, and principles with curiosity.

Typical Day

• Lead all legal and compliance matters across product, operations, and commercials.
• Advise management and leadership on strategic, regulatory, and risk issues.
• Draft, review, and negotiate key commercial contracts (partnerships, licensing) and build lightweight compliance checks and licence processes.
• Ensure GDPR and consumer protection compliance across all markets.
• Manage IP, data, privacy, competition, and marketing law issues (in collaboration with local and external counsel).
• Develop scalable legal processes and templates to support rapid product and market expansion.
• Own and continuously improve company policies and governance (privacy, terms, internal compliance).
• Act as a trusted partner, balancing legal soundness with business sense, helping us move fast and smart.

The Equipment in Your Backpack

• Dutch or EU qualified lawyer with 5+ years of experience (in house preferred).
• Background in consumer tech, digital platforms, or startups/scaleups.
• Strong commercial mindset and fluent in both English and Dutch (written and spoken).
• Comfortable operating independently, at pace, in a high growth and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• A creative, problem solving, pragmatic mindset, someone who loves finding smart, simple ways to get things done right.

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet. (only for employees, not freelance)

• A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.
• A shiny new laptop of your choice, like a MacBook, to work your magic on.
• Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home as you see fit.
• An extensive home office set up, everything from noise canceling headphones to a standing desk.
• 30 days of vacation.
• Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.
• The option to switch up your video background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.
• A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!
• A pension plan to help you save for those around the world retirement trips.
• Delicious daily team lunches.
• Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.
• A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.
• Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far flung adventures.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Polarsteps, we believe the best products are built by people as diverse as the travelers using our apps! That's why we specifically encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply for a role with us. Diversity, including age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, or gender identity, makes both the world and the workplace better.

Seniority Level

Mid Senior Level

Employment Type

Part time

Job Function

General Business and Legal

Industries

Software Development

How to Apply

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