[Hiring] Corporate Counsel @YOMALI

Role Description

Yomali relied entirely on outside counsel until early 2026, when we brought in our first General Counsel to build the function internally. This role is the second hire in our legal department, created to take on the core legal workload so our GC can focus on the strategic work only she can do.

If you want to help shape what "legal" looks like at a fast-moving, privately held group rather than inherit someone else's system, this is that role.

What You'll Own

• Own the day-to-day contract lifecycle for commercial, vendor, procurement, and customer agreements across Yomali's businesses.
• Provide practical HR and employment support, including offer letters, policy questions, and disciplinary and termination guidance.
• Serve as the first line of response for consumer complaints and regulator inquiries, escalating anything that needs litigation or outside counsel involvement.
• Handle general corporate housekeeping: entity maintenance, corporate resolutions, and basic trademark and IP administration.
• Build and maintain contract templates, playbooks, and self-service tools.
• Partner with HR, marketing, operations, and product as a responsive, practical business partner.
• Flag issues to the General Counsel with clear risk framing and a recommended path forward.

What Success Looks Like

• First 60 days: onboarding and getting exposure across the full legal remit.
• 3–6 months: you've touched every part of the role, working closely with the GC to support you.
• 12 months: you're fully trusted to run your remit independently, escalating to our GC only when it genuinely matters.

Qualifications

• A JD (or equivalent) and license or qualification as an attorney, solicitor, or barrister in the United States, Canada, England & Wales, or Ireland.
• Minimum 4 years of in-house counsel experience as a generalist, ideally at a consumer-facing or technology business.
• Hands-on experience independently drafting and negotiating a high volume of commercial and vendor contracts.
• Working knowledge of employment law fundamentals, including offer letters, terminations, and policy questions.
• Comfort building your own process where formal playbooks don't exist yet.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment to give clear recommendations.

Requirements

• Experience responding to consumer complaints or regulatory inquiries.
• Experience at a consumer-facing ecommerce, marketplace, subscription, or consumer SaaS company.
• Exposure to consumer protection, marketing, subscription, payments, data privacy, or ecommerce regulatory issues.
• Basic trademark/IP or data privacy exposure.
• Experience building templates, playbooks, or self-service tools for a growing legal function.
• Comfort working across US, Canada, UK, and Ireland legal and regulatory contexts.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, benchmarked to your location and experience.
• A seat close to the ground floor of a legal function you help define.
• Direct mentorship from our General Counsel.
• Meaningful growth trajectory as the department scales.
• Flexible location: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, or Ireland.

Interview Process

• Initial conversation with our Talent team.
• Interview with our General Counsel.
• Panel conversation with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Final conversation with senior leadership.

Company Description

Yomali is a privately held group spanning ecommerce, BPO, and fintech, operating across a portfolio of businesses including BuyGoods, HelpGrid, MaxWeb, and SmartFluent. We're a remote first team of 600 members across 38 countries, built for speed — and we're looking for people who want to build alongside us, not just fit into what already exists.