Emerging Travel Group
Senior Legal Counsel
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Emerging Travel Group
Emerging Travel Group is a global travel-tech company whose brands have been operating in over 220 source markets since 2010. We specialize in developing advanced online booking platforms for all types of clients — from individual tourists to travel agents and companies organizing business trips. Our solutions empower hoteliers to effortlessly showcase their accommodations, boosting visibility and attracting a broader audience.
Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone.
This is a remote vacancy open to candidates residing in Europe, USA and UK.
Job Responsibilities
Commercial Contracting
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements and public-facing legal documentation supporting business operations, growth, and risk management.
- Structuring contractual frameworks, identifying legal and commercial risks, and providing practical, business-oriented solutions.
Product & Business Support
- Supporting the design and launch of new travel products, booking flows, payment solutions, and commercial models across multiple jurisdictions.
- Advising on booking flows, ancillary products, customer journeys, cancellation and refund mechanics, and other customer-facing features from a legal and regulatory perspective.
- Partnering with cross-functional teams to design compliant business, contractual, and payment flows and ensure alignment with applicable legal requirements.
- Supporting international expansion initiatives, including market entry projects, local regulatory assessments, and implementation of new business models.
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Regulatory, Payments & Expansion
- Monitoring legal and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions and assessing their impact on the business.
- Advising on legal and regulatory requirements applicable to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, travel regulation, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation, and digital platform regulation.
- Advising on payment flows, merchant models, PSP integrations, and regulatory implications of international payment structures.
- Leading implementation of regulatory changes, managing external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, and translating local legal advice into practical, scalable business solutions.
Qualifications
- Qualified to practise law in England & Wales, the United States, or an EU Member State.
- 7+ years of post-qualification experience, including significant in-house legal experience supporting international consumer technology, digital platform, or travel technology businesses operating across the EU, UK, and US.
- Substantial in-house legal experience supporting an Online Travel Agency (OTA), bedbank, travel marketplace, travel distribution platform, or travel technology business operating internationally.
- Strong experience in international contracting, including agreements governed by common law and civil law jurisdictions, as well as cross-border commercial matters.
- Strong understanding of EU, UK, and US legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation, digital platform regulation, and privacy laws applicable to consumer-facing digital services.
- Experience supporting commercial and product legal matters across multiple European jurisdictions (including common-law and civil-law systems) and North America.
- Proven ability to independently manage complex international legal matters and coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage stakeholders, and drive implementation of legal solutions.
- Ability to assess, communicate, and mitigate legal risks in a practical and business-oriented manner.
- Fluent English (written and spoken).
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Benefits
- Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
- Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
- Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
- Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
- Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
- MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
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