Description
About the role
We're looking for a Legal Counsel who wants to be a builder, not a gatekeeper. This is not a role where you sit at the end of the process and review contracts. You'll be embedded in the business , working alongside Product, Growth, and Commercial from the start , shaping how Insify launches new products, enters new markets, and scales its legal and compliance infrastructure across Europe.
What you’ll be doing:
- Be the trusted legal voice across the business, advising on Dutch and EU commercial and regulatory law, building our legal posture from the ground up, and making sure the business moves fast without moving blind
- Stay ahead of legal and regulatory developments across the Netherlands, France, and the markets we're entering next, and turn complex regulatory shifts into clear, strategic guidance the business can act on
- Own our international expansion from a legal perspective, helping navigate the groundwork that makes each new European market faster and smarter to enter than the last
- Partner with Product, Growth, and Commercial to launch new offerings, campaigns, and partnerships, bringing legal thinking into the room early, not as a final hurdle
- Build and scale our compliance infrastructure so it grows with us: practical, embedded, and designed for a company that's moving fast across multiple jurisdictions
- Own GDPR and our broader privacy framework, working cross-functionally to keep policies fit for purpose and genuinely embedded in how we build, not just filed away in a folder
This role is a strong fit if you:
You are a lawyer who’s done legal advice at a law firm and now wants to actually build something. You've seen how legal work gets done from the outside and you're ready to own it from the inside. Specifically, this role is for you if you want to:
- Move from advising businesses to being part of one, with real skin in the game and decisions that stick
- Join a disruptor taking on one of the most structurally broken industries in Europe
- Be at the forefront of AI adoption in a regulated industry, where the legal questions are genuinely new and genuinely interesting
- Shape multi-country expansion from the ground floor, not just reviewing contracts, but helping determine how we enter new markets
- Work in a team that moves fast and expects legal to keep up, not slow things down
Requirements:
- A strong legal background in Dutch law, gained through education, in-house, or law firm experience; EU law is a significant advantage
- 3+ years of market experience working in the Netherlands
- Relevant industry exposure in financial services, insurance, or tech, though we're open to sharp generalists who learn fast
- Fluency in Dutch and English, any other European language is a plus!
- The ability to communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders– with a point of view, not just a list of options
- Comfort with ambiguity, competing priorities, and driving multiple complex initiatives without losing the thread
Benefits:
- The chance to do some of the most interesting legal work in European insurtech, alongside a team of sharp, ambitious people from diverse backgrounds across fintech, e-commerce, insurance, consulting, and beyond
- Competitive compensation that reflects responsibility and impact
- Insify Pension Plan with 6% employer contribution
- Travel reimbursement for your commute
- Hybrid working– up to 2 days from home per week
- 25 holiday days per year, plus Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday
- Remote work up to 4 weeks per year
- €50 monthly Alleo budget for whatever you like– gym, food, whatever
- Monthly team drinks, quarterly offsites, lunch and learns, and the kind of fun that happens when a high-functioning team wins together
- MacBook provided
- Real room to grow, with in-house leadership programmes and coaching as we scale!