Commercial Lawyer

SafetyWing is looking for a skilled Commercial Lawyer to join our legal team. In this role, you will work closely with our Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs and support product teams to develop innovative global products and scale existing ones. We are looking for a great communicator who can simplify complex legal concepts and provide actionable guidance to support our mission. 

🚀 About SafetyWing

 At SafetyWing, we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers—simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems. Our mission is to remove geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunity and freedom for everyone. If we succeed, we believe this will be one of the most important tasks of our time.

We’re a fully remote team of nearly 130, stretching across 15+ timezones.

💻 Your responsibilities will include

• Collaborating with product teams to address legal challenges, support the development of new products, and scale existing offerings effectively 

• Providing practical and strategic legal advice to support new product developments and enhance customer experience, while aligning with long term business goals

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal agreements in partnership with product teams

• Partnering with the sales team, providing legal support in high-value enterprise sales, including participating in client calls to facilitate deal closure 

• Ensuring compliance with international laws, including data privacy, consumer protection, advertising, insurance regulations, and other applicable commercial laws across jurisdictions

🧪 We are looking for someone who

• Has solid experience in negotiating and drafting a broad range of commercial agreements, particularly in SaaS, technology, or regulated industries

• Is familiar with laws and regulations governing insurance, fintech, or similar industries across multiple jurisdictions

• Is comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, preferably with experience in scaling products and navigating evolving legal landscapes across international jurisdictions

• Has demonstrated ability to identify potential legal issues early and take a proactive, solution-oriented approach

• Has strong understanding of how legal decisions impact business operations, particularly product development and sales

• Has proven ability to support enterprise sales teams in closing high-value deals, including direct client interaction

🦸‍♂️ We like to work with people who

• Share our vision to build a global social safety net on the Internet

• Think for themselves instead of copying others

• Are willing to try new things, even with the risk of failure

• Are intellectually curious and open to new ideas

• Are creative and bold in the face of any problem

• Have strong integrity and do the right thing

🧘 What we offer

• Fully remote work environment – work from anywhere globally

• Competitive compensation in line with global benchmarks

• Potential to unlock equity compensation

• A minimum of four weeks of vacation per year

• Premium health insurance that travels with you

• Travel insurance any time you travel outside of your home country

• New laptop, office allowance and more!
  

🚀 We look forward to hearing from you!

About SafetyWing

SafetyWing was founded to support nomads like ourselves by building an adaptable software-based global social safety net.
Our products are created by a fully remote team distributed across the globe and stretching ten timezones while headquartered in San Francisco.
We’re here to remove the role of geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunities and freedom for everyone.