Legal Counsel

🕒 June 19

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Kayzen

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51 - 200 employees

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

💰 $4M Seed Round on 2020-01

Marketing • Advertising • SaaS

Kayzen is a leading mobile programmatic advertising company, specializing in providing in-house mobile bidding technology. Built from the ground up, Kayzen empowers advertisers, app developers, agencies, and media buyers to run programmatic campaigns with full transparency and control over data. With solutions tailored for SKAdNetwork, user acquisition, and retargeting, Kayzen offers advanced optimization strategies and insights. Its platform is known for superior data sharing, privacy, and performance, democratizing mobile programmatic marketing by removing the reliance on traditional "black box" service platforms. Kayzen's SaaS solution allows businesses to customize and control their media buying processes, aiming for higher return on ad spend (ROAS).

📋 Description

• Own and continuously develop Kayzen’s GDPR compliance programme as an AdTech company operating across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular focus on EU and US privacy frameworks • Advise on data processing agreements, privacy notices, consent frameworks, and cross-border data transfers • Act as primary point of contact for internal privacy questions • Provide legal counsel on T&Cs and related transactions • Lead or support contract negotiations with clients and vendors, including MSAs, SaaS agreements, partnership agreements, and NDAs • Ensure commercial contracts are legally robust and aligned with company risk appetite • Manage and maintain Kayzen’s cap table • Oversee corporate governance across Kayzen’s group structure, including subsidiary management, shareholder resolutions, and notarial filings under German law • Support fundraising and investor relations from a legal and corporate perspective • Further develop and scale Kayzen’s compliance framework to match our growth as an internationally operating company • Monitor relevant regulatory developments (ad-tech, data privacy, employment, corporate) and translate them into actionable guidance for the business

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer (“Volljurist”) or Business lawyer (“Wirtschaftsjurist”) with 2–6 years of relevant professional experience • Strong understanding of German business law is essential; additionally solid understanding of international and US legal frameworks, particularly in the context of data privacy and commercial contracts • Strong knowledge of GDPR and European data protection law; familiarity with US privacy regulations (CCPA etc.) a strong plus • Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment is strongly preferred — you know how to work lean, move fast, and prioritise pragmatically • Hands-on experience with contract drafting and commercial negotiations across a variety of agreement types • Familiarity with cap table management and corporate governance in a VC-backed or founder-led company context • Commercially minded: you understand that good legal advice enables business, not just protects it • Fluent in English & German • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance legal productivity — you move fast and work smart

🏖️ Benefits

• A high-impact legal role with real ownership and room to grow the function • Direct collaboration with the Finance & Legal Lead and senior leadership • Competitive fixed compensation commensurate with experience • Fully remote work arrangement • €500 home-office setup budget • €1,000 annual learning & development budget • A motivated, diverse, and internationally distributed team