Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law (Courier Product)

Company Description

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 31 countries today, 27 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, We’re About Getting Things Done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

Are you an experienced employment law professional, with a genuine interest in the future of work, technological innovations and platform economy or a seasoned product counsel with strong understanding on employment law? Do you want to be part of a truly global and fast-paced environment? If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat! 

We are looking to strengthen our Legal team with a Senior Legal Counsel with focus on product counseling together with other responsibilities in the team. As a Senior Legal Counsel for courier products, you’ll have a broad range of responsibilities, providing legal guidance on all product and operations initiatives related to the independent contractors providing delivery services on Wolt’s platform. You will serve as the main legal advisor to many of the teams who build innovative features, products, and services relating to the couriers, such as the product managers and and engineers who are responsible for the Wolt Courier app. and the global team managing the quality and efficiency of the Wolt delivery operations. Your internal clients will also include strategy and operations teams responsible for optimizing the Wolt marketplace and building new businesses, Trust & Safety team ensuring the marketplace is secure and the policy team advocating for the future rules for platform work. You will also work closely with many of our legal team members who focus on specific legal areas, especially other employment counsels dedicated to courier compliance.

We’re looking for someone who’s not afraid of digging into different kinds of legal issues and understands the Wolt way of doing things – a problem solver and a solution-oriented business enabler. The regulation in our space is evolving globally and becoming more challenging to navigate and manage as we scale, and your mission is to ensure that from a courier product point of view our growth is sustainable. Thus, we truly want you to be an expert in employment law with existing experience from product counseling or genuine interest in becoming the go-to person for any product related questions. You’ll become an expert on our existing products and will help shape the development of new products, features, and operating models in an ever-changing legal and policy landscape. You should also be curious and eager to learn more about platform work and being part of creating something new.

We’re primarily looking for the person to join our team at our offices in Helsinki, however other key Wolt locations can also be considered if our dream candidate is based elsewhere.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide solution-oriented advice and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of product development to launch.

• Collaborate with business partners to effectively manage legal risks related to product, operational, and engineering initiatives.

• Provide product, engineering and global operations teams with pragmatic and actionable day-to-day and strategic advice to minimize legal risks while advancing business goals and initiatives. 

• Serve as the lead legal counsel for many key courier products and initiatives by advising on laws and regulations relating to reclassification and privacy, but also in collaboration with other legal team members on payments, marketing, consumer protection and more.

• Serve as liaison between your business clients and relevant other experts where needed (such as trust & safety and public policy teams). 

• Build playbooks and establish processes to help scale our advice as a legal team, e.g. by synthesizing input from outside counsel, your own research, and feedback from internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of legal experience as an in-house counsel and/or from a law firm in an international setting.

• Master of Laws degree from Finland or a reputable university in the EU. 

• You have a business-first mentality, strong legal judgment, and the ability to make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment with imperfect information.

• Solutions-driven can-do attitude is an absolute must.

• You are skilled at managing a high volume of requests from a wide range of client teams and balancing competing priorities with limited direction.

• Understand complicated areas of law and apply them to a complex business.

• You have a philosophy that no task is too big or small and an interest in learning and growth - you are a person who rolls up their sleeves and gets to work, no matter the task.

• You are a self-starter; you’re intrinsically motivated but also a good, collaborative teammate.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Fluent in English.

• Previous product counseling experience and/or experience in the tech industry or the on-demand economy is a plus.

Additional Information

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!
Along with a competitive salary and benefits, you will also be eligible for our long term incentive plan.
You will fit into a truly diverse team across 27 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!