Job Description
MGID is a global native advertising platform that helps brands reach unique local audiences at scale. At MGID, we empower brands and publishers to collaborate transparently through our privacy-first targeting technology. This enables advertisers to drive performance and awareness while allowing publishers to retain and monetize their audiences. Today, we’re creating innovative technologies, and with your help, we aim to reach even greater heights.
We are looking for a Senior Lawyer to join our global Legal Department and support strategic optimization, transformation, and governance initiatives across the MGID Group.
In this role, you will act as a senior legal partner for complex cross-functional projects involving Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, Data Protection, Operations, and business teams. You will help ensure that business transformation initiatives are legally sound, properly structured, and effectively implemented.
This position is ideal for an experienced legal professional who combines strong legal expertise with project management, process improvement, business-oriented thinking, and the ability to work independently in an international environment.
What You’ll Do:
Strategic Legal Projects and Transformation
- Lead and support legal workstreams within strategic optimization and transformation projects across the MGID Group.
- Provide legal input into initiatives related to contract management implementation, legal budgeting, corporate and tax optimization, governance improvements, internal controls, and operational restructuring.
- Translate legal advice and external counsel recommendations into practical implementation steps, internal guidance, and business-facing action plans.
- Coordinate cross-functional project work involving Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, Data Protection, Operations, and business teams.
Legal Process Optimization and Governance
- Support the design, improvement, and documentation of internal legal processes, approval flows, authority frameworks, contract governance rules, signing procedures, and internal controls.
- Develop, update, and maintain internal legal policies, procedures, guidelines, templates, playbooks, and process documentation.
- Identify inefficiencies, documentation gaps, and legal risks within existing workflows and propose practical improvements.
- Support the implementation of more structured legal reporting, tracking and process monitoring for key legal initiatives.
Corporate, Tax, and Group Structure Support
- Support projects related to corporate structure optimization, group governance, intercompany arrangements, internal service models and tax/corporate restructuring.
- Coordinate with external legal, tax and corporate advisers across relevant jurisdictions.
- Review and prepare corporate documents, internal approvals, powers of attorney, board / shareholder materials, intercompany documents and related supporting documentation.
- Assess legal risks connected with proposed structural or operational changes and prepare recommendations for mitigation.
Business Partnering and Cross-Functional Support
- Act as a senior legal partner for Finance, HR, Tax, Compliance, DPO, Operations and business teams on project-based legal matters.
- Provide practical legal advice on complex operational, corporate, employment-related, finance-related and governance matters.
- Support budgeting and cost-control initiatives from a legal perspective, including review of legal spend, external counsel engagement models and approval procedures.
- Ensure that legal recommendations are aligned with business needs, risk appetite, internal policies and applicable law.
Documentation, Reporting & Management Support
- Prepare legal memoranda, risk assessments, project summaries, implementation plans, management notes and internal guidance materials.
- Support preparation of materials for management review and decision-making on key legal and transformation projects.
- Maintain structured documentation for legal projects, including decisions, approvals, risks, action items and implementation status.
- Escalate material legal, compliance, governance or implementation risks to the CLO / Head of Legal in a timely manner.
Requirements
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Law;
- 5+ years of legal experience in an international law firm and/or in-house legal department;
- Experience supporting complex cross-functional projects involving Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, DPO, Operations and business stakeholders;
- Strong experience in legal project management, legal transformation, corporate governance, process optimization or internal legal operations;
- Experience with corporate structuring, group governance, intercompany arrangements, internal approvals, authority frameworks or tax/ corporate optimization projects;
- Strong legal drafting, contract review and legal risk assessment skills;
- Ability to analyze complex legal and business issues and translate them into clear, practical and actionable recommendations;
- Ability to prepare legal memoranda, project plans, risk assessments, internal policies, procedures and management summaries;
- Strong understanding of legal risk management, internal controls, approval processes and corporate governance principles;
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex legal matters in a fast-paced international environment;
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills;
It will be a plus:
- Experience with contract management / CLM implementation;
- Experience with legal budgeting, cost control or legal operations;
- Experience with tax structuring or corporate optimization projects;
- Experience with AdTech / MarTech or international digital business;
- Experience working with distributed international teams.
Languages proficiency:
- Ukrainian — fluent
- English — fluent
MGID is an awesome place to work for those who share a results-driven culture, passion for AdTech, innovation, and human focus. We set ambitious goals, approach challenges with enthusiasm, and value honesty, transparency, and empathy. We celebrate the diversity and the unique contributions of each individual. By embracing these values, we create a culture of excellence, creativity, and empathy. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Law; 5+ years legal experience in international law firm or in-house; experience with complex cross-functional projects, legal project management, corporate governance, and legal drafting; fluent Ukrainian and English.
Key Responsibilities
- leading legal workstreams
- providing legal advice
- coordinating cross-functional projects
Job Details
- Category: Legal and Compliance
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine
- Languages: Ukrainian, English
About MGID
A global native advertising platform that helps brands reach unique local audiences at scale. — Industry: Information Technology