Head of Legal
Telness Tech is the software company behind Europe's highest-rated mobile virtual network operator (4.9/5 on Trustpilot). Since our launch in 2021, our SaaS service has provided the infrastructure, experience, and expertise that telecom companies need to revolutionize the consumer experience. Our cutting-edge technology removes the complexity and expense from the equation, leaving our customers free to make a difference.
As a result of our rapid international growth and multiple secured funding rounds, we have grown our team from 30 to 80+ and are now looking for a dedicated and business-oriented Head of Legal to help us become the leaders in #teltech globally!
About the Role
As Telness Tech’s Head of Legal, you will be responsible for building, running, and ensuring quality on all of the company’s legal aspects, with a focus on business law, compliance, and security in a national and international context.
We are entering an era of fast international growth, having engaged several customers across the Nordics, USA, & Rest of Europe. You will work closely with leadership to manage and coordinate all legal with varying international business clients/partners and play a critical role in driving Telness Tech’s future growth journey. The successful candidate will be a hands-on problem solver who has been part of a similar scale-up journey, either as an “in-house lawyer” or working at a law firm with a Swedish SaaS/Tech company.
You will be part of the extended leadership team, reporting to the CFO.
Further on, the role will include but not be limited to:
- Manage all business contracts and corporate laws with a specific focus on client/partner contracts with MVNOs and network operators nationally and globally
- Advise and act on legal and compliance risks and ensure quality in legal issues to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and our strategic goals
- Work with different legal issues within GDPR, information security, and corporate law
- Responsible for coordinating projects and complementary legal support from local specialists if needed
- Keep up to date with and informed about applicable laws, regulations, and legal development, both nationally and internationally
- Produce internal legal policies, directives, guidelines, etc
- Work on the legal side with financing processes and investments
What We Look For
- At least 5+ years experience in business- and corporate law, as an ”in-house”-lawyer or with international Swedish Tech clients at a law firm, after a law degree
- Solid experience working with SaaS business models and international enterprise partners/customers, (focus on IT and Telco operators is meritorious)
- Experience working with legal in an international business context with different countries/markets, preferably the US
- Previous experience working in a startup/scale-up is beneficial
- Thorough experience with Swedish legislation (US legislation is a plus)
- Previous experience in IT security requirements/GDPR is meritorious
- Ability to proactively identify relevant issues and possibilities, assess risks, and produce constructive solutions in new customer/partner situations internationally
- Experience and interest in mixed corporate governance issues as we will encounter many different types of operational challenges on our international growth journey
- Previous experience within transactional law (M&A, investments) is an advantage.
- Education: Degree of Master of Laws
- Excellent communication skills and fluent English in speech and writing (Swedish is a strong merit)
Personal characteristics:
- Pragmatic, calm, and methodical
- You are a hands-on problem solver and like to get things done
- You feel comfortable venturing into the unknown (80% and go)
- You enjoy a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment and can adapt to changing and challenging scenarios
- You strive to be an excellent communicator and can communicate complex concepts and ideas in simple ways
- You have a strong sense of initiative and the ability to work independently
- A team player with a flexible outlook
- You are meticulous
- You like to learn and want to be part of an exciting journey
What we offer
- Opportunity to transform a global industry
- An active role in developing one of the most innovative B2B SaaS telecom companies in the market.
- A great team. Honestly - our main USP. We care deeply about each other as well as
- our customers!
- A Proven product & business model ready to be refined and brought to the world.
- A workplace where we dare to challenge each other and push the boundaries
- Rebuild an industry in a modern tech stack and infrastructure
- A startup journey with strong funding and international expansion
- Great development potential, and opportunity to help form the organization and company as we grow
- Hybrid remote setup with an office in central Stockholm
Sound like you? Apply today!
At this stage, we are not able to provide visa sponsorship.
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
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Colleagues
Stockholm
About Telness Tech
Telness Tech is the software company behind the highest rated MVNO in Europe (4.9/5 on Trustpilot) and was originally founded in 2016. Telness Tech enables MVNOs, and other telecom companies to launch low touch, consumer centric solutions that help you maximize customer happiness and minimize OPEX through automation.
As the only fully automated BSS/OSS platform on the market we help MVNO/E/As cut costs by up to 80%, reduce time-to-market to 2 months and increase customer happiness x3.
No end of life or software updates, we provide a fully managed SaaS service that will always support your business model to ensure that you are ahead of competition. Our proprietary, cloud-native, end-to-end BSS/OSS platform is connectivity ready in 64 countries and can be deployed on any public cloud.
Head of Legal
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