Senior Legal Counsel (Parental Leave Cover)

Senior Legal Counsel

We are looking for an experienced legal counsel for an approximately 12-month cover while our Head Of Legal is on parental leave. In this role, you will take full ownership of the company’s global legal landscape and play a key role in enabling fast, sustainable growth across a dynamic SaaS and AdTech business. You will be the go-to legal partner for the organisation, driving commercial negotiations, shaping customer and partner agreements, and ensuring compliance across GDPR, data privacy, AI, and evolving global regulations.

Beyond managing legal risk, you will actively help the business move faster and smarter by building scalable legal frameworks, improving processes, strengthening IP and contract management, and working closely with teams across multiple international markets.

About SeenThis

The open web has massive untapped advertising potential, but video has historically underperformed here. SeenThis is changing that. As a video advertising partner, we prove the open web delivers exceptional results, capturing more attention with cost-effective video that keeps publishers profitable and the internet independent. Since 2017, we've served billions of streams for 5,000+ brands across 50+ countries. We believe brands deserve reach wherever audiences are, publishers deserve sustainable revenue, and the internet deserves to stay open.

Our team of 130+ employees works globally from offices in Stockholm, Oslo, London, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, and Sydney. We're expanding across all teams and constantly seeking new colleagues who want to make real impact in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where innovation happens daily.

Do you want to be part of our journey, where we dare to discover, own it, and win together? Join SeenThis!

About The Role

You'll be the primary and sole internal legal advisor to the business, working closely with leadership, Sales, Product, and Customer Success to enable growth while managing risk intelligently. This role requires you to work globally supporting all of SeenThis local offices in Sweden, Norway, London, France, US, Singapore, Australia and Japan.

This is a hands-on role in a scale-up environment where you'll have real impact and autonomy.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage legal matters across the company, acting as SeenThis' legal advisor.
• Lead negotiation, drafting, and review of both local and international customer agreements, supplier agreements, data processing agreements (DPAs), NDAs and other commercial agreements.
• Review, draft, and negotiate supplier and partner agreements.
• Ensure compliance and own the company’s policy framework.
• Oversee intellectual property matters, including management of the trademark portfolio, brand protection, and IP-related agreements and licensing.
• Develop and maintain legal templates and internal guidelines.
• Administer the contract system and ensure it is up to date.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including data protection (GDPR), regulatory frameworks, and other relevant technology and privacy regulations such as IAB Transparency and Consent Framework.
• Monitor regulatory developments relevant to SaaS, data, and AI, and proactively assess their impact on the business.
• Coordinate with external legal counsel where needed, managing cost and scope effectively.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant legal experience as an in-house counsel or from a top-tier law firm, preferably within media and/or technology.
• Strong experience negotiating and drafting commercial contracts (e.g. customer, partner and vendor agreements).
• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical business advice.
• Comfortable working independently and setting up legal processes.
• Experience working with international stakeholders and cross-border legal issues.
• Law degree (Swedish law degree or equivalent with relevant Swedish legal experience preferred).
• Fluent in English; Swedish language skills are a strong advantage.
• Strong proficiency in using AI tools as part of your work, with the ability to automate and optimize your workflows.

Application

As we review applications and interview on a continuous basis, please apply as soon as possible. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are unable to provide personalized feedback prior to the interview stage. Thank you for understanding!

We conduct background checks on all SeenThis-hires to comply with our customers and protect business-critical information.

We look forward to welcoming you to SeenThis!