General Counsel

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Moodle

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Education • Software • SaaS

Moodle is a leading open-source learning management system (LMS) that provides flexible, secure, and accessible online learning spaces for educators and learners worldwide. Designed to empower educators, Moodle offers extensive features including course customisation, content management, collaboration tools, assessment functionalities, and progress tracking. Its modular architecture allows integration with various plugins and additional functionalities, making it adaptable to different educational and corporate training environments. With solutions for K-12, higher education, vocational training, workplace learning, and more, Moodle is committed to improving teaching outcomes and enhancing learning experiences through both its core platform and a range of specialist services provided by Certified Partners and Service Providers. Moodle also emphasizes data security and privacy, ensuring a trusted platform for its users.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2002

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.4M Venture Round on 2021-08

📋 Description

• **What You’ll Do** • Most days in this role usually involve a mix of: • - Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts and website terms. • - Building, maintaining and scaling Moodle’s global contract management framework and standard terms. • - Providing objective, commercially pragmatic advice on legal, privacy, commercial and regulatory issues. • - Leading, mentoring and developing a high-performing in-house legal team. • - Managing legal workflows, allocating priorities and ensuring timely delivery of guidance. • - Supporting M&A activity including due diligence, term sheets, and transaction documentation. • - Overseeing Moodle’s global privacy program, including GDPR compliance, DPIAs and coordination with our external DPO. • - Managing Moodle’s trademark and copyright portfolio and advising on IP protection and enforcement. • - Handling legal disputes, including IP infringement issues. • - Delivering internal legal and compliance training across the business. • - Streamlining legal processes and operational systems for efficiency and scalability. • - Partnering closely with global stakeholders, building trust and enabling business outcomes. • - Managing external legal counsel across multiple jurisdictions. • - Supporting company secretarial work and contributing to strategic organisational projects.

🎯 Requirements

• **We’d love to meet you** • Especially if you can tell us about your: • - Law degree and eligibility to practise in at least one recognised jurisdiction. • - 10+ years of post-qualified legal experience across commercial, corporate, privacy or regulatory areas. • - Native-level English communication skills (written and spoken). • - Experience working in IT, technology, software or IP-intensive environments. • - Meaningful experience with trademarks and global IP portfolio management. • - Strong background negotiating complex commercial agreements and high-value transactions. • - Experience supporting M&A processes and investor or due diligence activities. • - Consultative, collaborative and commercially pragmatic approach to legal work. • - Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships in a global, remote-first organisation. • - Leadership experience building or developing an in-house legal team. • - Strength in simplifying complexity, improving processes and driving operational excellence. • - High attention to detail, strong judgement and a proactive, solution-focused mindset.

🏖️ Benefits

• **What's in it for you?** • Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!) • In addition to this you can expect: • - Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world • - A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’ • - Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference. • - As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.