About Gigs
At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services—a platform that lets tech companies embed global connectivity into their products effortlessly.
Just as Stripe lets any business add a payment button in seconds, Gigs empowers platforms to weave in connectivity—bridging the traditional world of telecom with modern tech. From fintechs launching mobile services to HR platforms offering work phone plans, we automate provisioning and remove telecom complexity.
Our team of around 90 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, bringing together early-stage engineers, product builders, and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify. We’re tackling deep technical and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly seamless.
If you’re driven by curiosity, creativity, and the chance to shape the future of telecom, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
We are seeking an exceptional Legal Associate to be our legal team's founding member together with our Head of Legal. As the second legal hire, you will drive projects across a variety of diverse business law-related matters ranging from contract assets to regulatory positioning.
What you will do
- Manage Diverse Projects, You’ll review and own a range of commercial agreements, including B2B agreements, supplier contracts, business customer contracts, software contracts, and our regulatory position within telecom. This includes working with relevant subject-matter experts at the right time.
- Liaise with Head of Legal & external counsel and subject-matter experts to sync & obtain advice on specific items, understand how these impact the Gigs ecosystem, and convey this back to the relevant internal team in a clear format.
- Build the internal corporate governance function for the Gigs group of companies.
- Set us up for future success, You’ll proactively investigate and set up smart legal structures and contracts to help us benefit as we scale. This includes navigating different contracts in the USA and EU and keeping tabs on emerging laws and regulations in the SaaS and telecom spaces.
- Improve the existing legal infrastructure at Gigs and implement consistent legal guidelines, templates, and frameworks relating to contract management.
What we are looking for
- You are passionate about business law and hold a law degree from a top USA law school. You have 2+ years of experience as an in-house legal counsel in a startup or scale-up.
- You are clever and eager to become an ecosystem expert. You are eager to dig into new legal topics and areas to understand if and how they impact the Gigs ecosystem. You will gain a complete overview of our legal ecosystem and work with subject-matter experts to optimize our contractual and regulatory ecosystem.
- You are excellent at stakeholder management with both internal and external parties. You have strong analytical and drafting skills with high attention to detail.
- You abstract legal complexity for a living. You innately seek to understand complicated legal matters from different angles to see how they could benefit the Gigs ecosystem. You naturally think about finding a synergistic intersection of law, regulation, and business growth within different jurisdictions. You’ve made it your mission to find smart solutions for legal issues, and the ability to work across business functions to identify and tackle problems as they come up.
Work at Gigs
At Gigs, we know that different work styles and teams thrive in different environments. Some work best remotely, while others rely on in-person collaboration to spark creativity and drive execution. We’re remote-friendly by design, but we also offer hubs for those who need the energy and focus that only in-person collaboration can bring.
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Gigs Pads: Our hubs in San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin are vibrant spots where Gigsters connect, collaborate, and create together.
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Gigs Republic: Twice a year, our entire company comes together to strengthen bonds, align on big ideas, and share experiences that fuel our culture and ignite growth.
What We Offer
At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan
If you’re driven by curiosity, creativity, and the chance to shape the future of telecom, let’s talk.
Want to learn more about our benefits, hubs, and what it’s like to work at Gigs? Check out our Careers page.
