Lead Legal Counsel
Ukraine
Belkins - Finance & Legal – Legal /
Full-time/Remote /
Remote
In 2017, Belkins started as an appointment-setting agency with just one service offering. Fast-forward to today, and we've transformed into Belkins Group—a vibrant ecosystem of services and products that define the cutting-edge landscape of the SalesTech and MarTech industries. For seven years running, we’ve been the top appointment-setting agency, achieving amazing results across 50+ industries worldwide.
Our results speak for themselves: with over 1,000 clients and a global portfolio, we’ve set up more than 200,000 appointments, delivering a $10 return for every $1 spent. We’re experts in B2B appointment setting, providing essential services for companies ready to take their growth to the next level. By diving deep into lead research and using customized, omnichannel strategies, we turn opportunities into real success.
Joining Belkins means signing up for a journey of unstoppable growth and success, driven by curiosity, dedication, and a commitment to excellence.
Belkins is seeking a Lead Legal Counsel (Head of Legal) to lead our legal function, providing strategic legal guidance for global expansion. This role focuses on overseeing legal operations, ensuring compliance, and managing corporate governance and partnerships.
As a Lead Legal Counsel, you will:
- Legal Oversight & Daily Operations: Provide day-to-day legal oversight of business operations, ensuring compliance, risk management, and smooth execution of legal workflows.
- Client Contracts Management: Lead drafting, reviewing, and negotiating client contracts (including insurance clauses, SLAs, liability frameworks), ensuring terms protect the company’s interests while enabling business growth.
- Corporate Structure & Governance: Handle registration and maintenance of holding structures across jurisdictions, oversee corporate governance, and ensure compliance with shareholder and board requirements. Support respective reporting, in jurisdictions, where applicable.
- Domain & Technical Compliance: Manage legal aspects of domain registrations, certifications, and other technical compliance processes falling under legal responsibility.
- Intellectual Property: Oversee and execute IP protection strategies, including trademarks, copyrights, and other relevant registrations.
- Negotiations with Enterprise Clients: Represent the company in high-stakes negotiations with large enterprise customers, ensuring balanced outcomes that protect company interests.
- Investment & Partnership Matters: Manage the legal side of mergers and acquisitions (due diligence, drafting contracts, and negotiations); structure and revise financing tools like SAFE, KISS, LoI , and convertible notes; work with advisory and partnership agreements.
- External Counsel Collaboration: Work with outside counsel for highly specialized matters, ensuring efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Legal Process Optimization: Implement legal tech tools and automation to streamline contract management and internal processes.
- Data Protection & Security (US/EU): Drive global privacy compliance (US laws, GDPR), manage DSRs, breach notifications, ROPA/DPIAs, and cross-border transfers, while partnering with security on incident response, contractual requirements, and audits/certifications.
- Bad Debts & Collections: Oversee collections protocols, ensure lawful recovery practices, and manage escalations to external counsel for legal recovery where necessary.
- KYC & Onboarding Support: Define and enforce KYC tiers, verification and screening processes, and integrate requirements into onboarding workflows. Lead vendor due diligence, negotiate DPAs/security addenda.
- Employment (Consulting) & Freelance Staff: Manage legal onboarding, contracting (engagement letters, IP/confidentiality, tax/status clauses), and offboarding for consultants and freelancers to ensure compliance and protect IP.
You will definitely be successful in this role if you:
- Hold a Master’s Degree in Law.
- Have proven hands-on expertise in commercial contracts, negotiations, and corporate law - not just oversight.
- Have prior experience leading a legal function (even a small team), balancing strategy with direct execution of complex legal tasks.
- Demonstrate solid knowledge of U.S. and EU legal frameworks, including corporate governance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, data protection and informational security, as well as compliance matters.
- Are able to independently manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced, international business environment.
- Communicate fluently in English (C1 preferred, B2+ minimum) and Ukrainian (required).
- Possess strong business acumen and the ability to weigh legal risks against commercial opportunities.
- Demonstrate exceptional communication and negotiation skills with both internal stakeholders and external enterprise clients.
At Belkins, we care deeply about our team members, and we prove it through:
Competitive Pay: Your dedication deserves more than recognition; it deserves compensation that matches your expertise.
Remote-First Flexibility: We’ve transitioned to a fully remote environment so you can work where you're most productive. Our flexible hours help you stay agile and focused.
Professional Growth: We’re a launchpad for your career. Through regular feedback, 1:1s, internal mobility, and knowledge-sharing, your growth is enabled and celebrated. We also maintain an internal wiki for insights and a library of the latest business books to keep you sharp.
Well-being focus: Your mental health is a priority. We offer mental health lectures and support for your overall well-being.
Recharge Time: We prioritize your rest with 20 paid vacation days, parental leave, fully covered sick days, and unlimited days off for unexpected needs.
Global Sync: We align with U.S. holidays to keep our global teams in sync.
Memorable Team Experiences: Work hard, play hard — even from a distance. Our online team-building events and all-hands gatherings bring humor, memes, and a lively atmosphere that makes teamwork genuinely fun.
