[Hiring] General Counsel @ID5

Role Description

ID5 is entering an important new phase. Following the acquisition of TrueData, we now operate across three entities in the UK and US with approximately 85 people in 15 countries. This is ID5's senior-most legal role and a genuine executive seat. Reporting directly to the CEO & Co-Founder, you will:

• Set legal and enterprise-risk strategy.
• Hold final legal sign-off and provide clear, decision-ready advice to the CEO, founders, and board.
• Lead a capable in-house team and specialist outside counsel.
• Make commercially pragmatic decisions at speed.
• Strengthen corporate foundations for ID5's growth, including governance, contracts, IP and data rights.
• Lead legal work on strategic partnerships, corporate development, and transactions.

What You'll Do

• Enable revenue through better contracting.
• Own the commercial contract architecture across customer and partner agreements, product modules, order forms, DPAs, and NDAs.
• Set ID5's legal and risk strategy.
• Lead corporate development and strategic projects.
• Provide the senior legal view on privacy and data protection.
• Oversee disputes and intellectual-property exposure.
• Maintain strong corporate governance.
• Build a scalable legal function.

Qualifications

• Ready to carry General Counsel-level accountability.
• Experience as the senior legal decision-maker in-house or immediately beneath one.
• Strong commercial and regulatory judgment from adtech, digital identity, data infrastructure, or privacy technology.
• Ability to form defensible positions on data-protection questions.
• Proactive and collaborative business partner.
• Ability to direct specialists without outsourcing judgment.
• Strong people and systems management skills.
• Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction.

Nice To Have

• Direct adtech and identity ecosystem experience.
• Experience integrating an acquisition across jurisdictions.

Benefits

• Remote-first working policy.
• A competitive compensation package, including stock options in ID5.
• WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations.
• Regular offsites for face-to-face bonding with colleagues.
• A dynamic environment that offers growth and development opportunities.
• A friendly, international, and multicultural team.

Company Description

ID5 delivers Adaptive Identity for omnichannel advertising. We provide intelligent, privacy-first identity infrastructure that turns fragmented signals into scalable and measurable identity solutions across devices and channels.

• Launched in September 2017, ID5 currently employs 80 people.
• Works with premium publishers, ad tech platforms, and advertisers globally.
• Rapidly established itself as the most adopted identity solution in the market.
• Backed by financial and strategic industry investors.
• Recognized as one of the most outstanding employers by Digiday’s WorkLife Awards 2023.
• Remote-first company, allowing employees to work from different locations and time zones indefinitely.