ID5.io
ID5.io
ID5.io develops privacy-focused identity technology for addressable advertising. Its platform helps brands and advertisers engage audiences across media environments while enabling publishers and advertising technology partners to improve audience monetization. The company’s identity tools are designed for a fragmented, increasingly cookieless ecosystem, using encryption and privacy-by-design principles to support measurable omnichannel advertising while respecting data protection requirements. Founded in 2017, ID5.io operates across the consulting, marketing, and advertising sectors.

General Counsel at ID5.io (Remote, United Kingdom)

Lead legal strategy, risk, governance, privacy, and transactions for ID5.io’s privacy-focused digital advertising identity platform. Advise the executive team and board while building a scalable global legal function.

Description

  • Advise the CEO, founders, and board as a direct report to the CEO and Co-Founder, delivering clear, decision-ready legal guidance
  • Define legal and enterprise-risk strategy while retaining responsibility for final legal approval
  • Manage the internal legal team and coordinate specialist external counsel
  • Design and oversee commercial contracting for customer and partner agreements, product modules, order forms, DPAs, and NDAs
  • Strengthen templates, playbooks, delegation frameworks, and legal technology
  • Provide legal guidance on partnerships, investments, acquisitions, integrations, and other strategic initiatives
  • Lead privacy and data-protection positions covering GDPR, UK GDPR, US state privacy laws, consent frameworks, controller and processor analysis, data transfers, and retention
  • Manage significant disputes and intellectual-property risks, including preservation, discovery, strategy, and resolution
  • Maintain corporate governance across entities, including board materials, delegated authorities, insurance, and cross-border structures
  • Advise on employment, marketing, and other enterprise matters requiring senior legal judgment
  • Build the internal team, oversee the legal budget and external-counsel panel, and scale legal operations through process and technology

Requirements

  • Experience serving as the senior in-house legal decision-maker, or operating directly below that level with ownership of enterprise-critical matters
  • Confidence advising founders, executives, and boards
  • Strong commercial and regulatory judgment in adtech, digital identity, data infrastructure, privacy technology, or a similarly complex B2B software setting
  • Ability to develop defensible positions on emerging data-protection issues and critically assess specialist advice
  • Skill in converting legal analysis into practical product and contracting decisions
  • Proactive, collaborative business partnership with Commercial, Product, Engineering, and People leaders
  • Ability to direct specialists and deliver final internal recommendations
  • Experience developing lawyers, delegating effectively, setting guardrails, and improving legal processes
  • Admission as a lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction
  • Admission and good standing in the US, UK, or another jurisdiction suitable for advising a UK-parented global technology group with substantial US exposure
  • Adtech and identity ecosystem experience, including IAB consent frameworks, digital advertising standards, data marketplaces, or data-broker regulation is desirable
  • Experience integrating a cross-border acquisition, including entity governance, data integration, commercial migration, and EOR/PEO employment structures is desirable

Benefits

  • Remote-first work policy
  • Competitive compensation package with ID5 stock options
  • WeWork membership with the option to work from different WeWork locations
  • Regular offsites for in-person collaboration and team connection
  • A dynamic environment supporting employee growth and development
  • Friendly, international, and multicultural team
  • Equal-opportunity and inclusive workplace
  • Ability to work indefinitely from different locations and time zones
  • Remote-work tools and support
  • Regular all-hands meetings
  • Slack and Zoom communication tools

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