**Location**:Milano - Italy
**Join Amity!
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At Amity, we believe that communities will save the world and we are on a mission to empower everyone to build their own.
We do so by offering a suite of pre-built social features that companies can add to their apps or websites to easily launch their own social networks.
Hundreds of companies worldwide are already using our technology to decrease their reliance on third-parties social media and operate their own positive and curated digital communities.
Since the launch of Amity Social Cloud in 2020, we went from 15 to 250+ employees across four offices - Bangkok, London, Milan and Sao Paulo - and from 0 to 100+ global clients, including leading companies such as Harley-Davidson, Pernod Ricard, Noom, Betano and more.
We raised over $20M backed by leading venture capitals.
**Your impact**:
Amity is growing at a rapid pace, and we are looking for experienced individuals to join our current group of passionate and smart thinkers.
We are looking for a Head of Legal who will guide our legal team in achieving daily and long-term goals.
This person will be primarily responsible for general legal affairs within the company as well as defining and building the Amity legal function.
In addition, this Head of Legal will take on a range of legal work with a focus on commercial agreements, corporate governance, data protection, IP, and strategic transactions.
In this role you will be a strategic business-oriented team player and cultural leader for the company.
You will be reporting to the CEO and founder of Amity and you will be managing a Senior Legal Associate.
**Your day-to-day responsibilities**:
- Advise Amity management and the board on legal issues and implications of the company's entry to new markets, products and development of new strategies;
- Draft, review and approve contracts of all types;
- Review existing agreements, advise on potential risks and suggest strategies to mitigate risks;
- Advise departmental directors on how to respond to legal issues;
- Advise and assist with IP rights and Corporate Compliance;
- Support People department with updating company-wide HR policies in line with local employment law;
- Review and assist with Privacy and Data Protection policies;
**Your ideal profile**:
- Law degree and previous experience working as a lawyer in an international law firm and within a Head of Legal role;
- Track record of supervision and legal advice;
- Fluent in English;
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage conflict and difficult issues in a professional, assertive and proactive manner;
- Ability to mentor and manage other compliance/legal staff.
**What's in it for you**:
- Check out more about our company, Milan team and our benefits - here
- Visibility of your results and direct impact on the product / International team of professionals / Growing global business (with fast-paced high growth environment)
- Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock scheme
- Role with a global impact and an opportunity to build teams, strategies and processes from scratch
- Flexible workplace policy (we all gather as a team for one week every month at the office in Milan city center, for the rest of the month you are free to come to the office or work from "wherever you feel the most productive")
- Time to support charities and give back in your community (Amity Foundation)
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