Senior Legal Counsel

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🦌 Connecticut, Washington – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Emerging Travel Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

eCommerce • B2B • Travel

Emerging Travel Group is a leading provider of advanced online booking platforms tailored for individual travelers, travel agents, and corporate clients. They empower hoteliers to enhance visibility and attract a wider customer base through their comprehensive travel solutions, which include over 2. 9 million accommodations, flights, transfers, and car rentals across 190 source markets. With a focus on technology excellence, Emerging Travel Group serves a vast network of travel agencies and corporate clients, enabling seamless travel management and collaboration in the dynamic travel industry.

📋 Description

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements and public-facing legal documentation supporting business operations, growth and risk management. • Structuring contractual frameworks, identifying legal and commercial risks and providing practical, business-oriented solutions. • Supporting the design and launch of new travel products, booking flows, payment solutions and commercial models across multiple jurisdictions. • Advising on booking flows, ancillary products, customer journeys, cancellation and refund mechanics, and other customer-facing features from a legal and regulatory perspective. • Partnering with cross-functional teams to design compliant business, contractual and payment flows and ensure alignment with applicable legal requirements. • Supporting international expansion initiatives, including market entry projects, local regulatory assessments and implementation of new business models. • Monitoring legal and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions and assessing their impact on the business. • Advising on legal and regulatory requirements applicable to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, travel regulation, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation and digital platform regulation. • Advising on payment flows, merchant models, PSP integrations and regulatory implications of international payment structures. • Leading implementation of regulatory changes, managing external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and translating local legal advice into practical, scalable business solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified to practise law in England & Wales, the United States or an EU Member State. • 7+ years of post-qualification experience, including significant in-house legal experience supporting international consumer technology, digital platform or travel technology businesses operating across the EU, UK and US. • Substantial in-house legal experience supporting an Online Travel Agency (OTA), bedbank, travel marketplace, travel distribution platform or travel technology business operating internationally. • Strong experience in international contracting, including agreements governed by common law and civil law jurisdictions, as well as cross-border commercial matters. • Strong understanding of EU, UK and US legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation, digital platform regulation and privacy laws applicable to consumer-facing digital services. • Experience supporting commercial and product legal matters across multiple European jurisdictions (including common-law and civil-law systems) and North America. • Proven ability to independently manage complex international legal matters and coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions. • Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage stakeholders and drive implementation of legal solutions. • Ability to assess, communicate and mitigate legal risks in a practical and business-oriented manner. • Fluent English (written and spoken).

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely. • Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together. • Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities. • Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences. • Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world. • Corporate prices on hotels and travel services. • MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.