Legal Counsel

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 650 people, powering operations in 18 countries (and counting).

Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact. We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.

Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.

**About the role**:
This is a real opportunity to join a growing company within a committed legal team. As part of our dynamic legal team, you will play a key role in supporting our marketing, intellectual property, and IT-related activities while contributing to our global growth and reputation.

**YOUR MISSION (IF YOU ACCEPT IT)**:
- Act as the primary legal contact for the Marketing team, providing clear and practical advice on advertising compliance, consumer protection, promotional campaigns, and brand usage.
- Handle IP/IT-related agreements, including licensing, software as a service (SaaS) and all types of marketing and brand related contracts.
- Oversee the company’s trademark and domain name portfolio: filings, renewals, disputes, and strategy
- Monitor and manage IP-related pre-litigation and litigation matters, including infringements, counterfeit, and unfair competition issues
- Partner with marketing, product, tech, and other business teams to support innovation while ensuring legal compliance.
- Assist in implementing tools and processes to enhance the Legal Team’s efficiency and scalability. A keen interest in integrating AI into the legal team’s processes is also considered a plus.
- Knowledge of data privacy law is a plus.

**YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF**:
- Fluent in both French and English (Being bilingual in English would be a real plus)
- A Master's**Degree in Intellectual Property Law, IT Law, consumption law or a related field
- 4+ years of relevant post-qualification legal experience including at an international law firm or prior in-house experience, with exposure to advertising and consumer law.
- Highly organized, motivated, rigorous and detail oriented, and have a sense of urgency and an ability to prioritize tasks
- A genuine interest in e-commerce, technology, and innovation.
- Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders, where excellent both legal and business judgment is key
- Strong ability to lead projects
- Excellent communication skills

**WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌**
- **A meaningful job**: you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts
- **A meaningful company**: we became a mission-driven company in January 2022.
- **Be part of a worldwide growing company**based in Europe, the USA and Asia to face **great challenges**: you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas
- **Work alongside passionate experts**:who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career.
- **Grow your career**: with a flexible career path and a dedicated Learning & Development team. Back Market will help you evolve with personalized internal trainings and external handpicked providers from day 1
- **Leadership Academy by Back Market**:“be a coach not a dictator” is at the core of this program We train and enable all our leaders to support their team towards achieving goals. Be a manager at Back Market is an unique experience we take by heart.
- **An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including**: Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc
- **Remote friendly company**: up to 2 days of remote work per week
- **One Loving Tribe**: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment.
- Be part of one of our **Employee Resource Groups**createdaround shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet.
- **Several internal events**: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual).
- **We’re here to SABOTAGE**: It’s our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact.

Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer which means we pledge to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.

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