Head of Legal - Product

Ready for a challenge?

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Then Just Eat might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As Head of Legal - Product within our Legal & Compliance department, you will lead our global legal product strategy. You will drive excellence by aligning legal risk frameworks with our fast-paced product roadmap, aiming high to deliver clear, commercial guidance. By caring for our global community, you ensure innovative consumer-facing features and marketing campaigns are built responsibly and delivered seamlessly.

Location: Open to location in either: London, Amsterdam, or Berlin.

Reporting to: Deputy General Counsel - Platform & Consumer

These are some of the key components to the position:

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• Lead and inspire a high-performing legal team, driving cross-functional alignment across global product, engineering and marketing departments.
  
• Act as thought leader and sparring partner to business leaders in the area of consumer and platform regulation.
  
• Deliver proactive, practical, and commercially-minded legal counsel on international consumer law, e-commerce regulations, and digital platform requirements.
  
• Oversee the end-to-end legal review of new product features, from initial ideation to global deployment.
  
• Oversee the legal framework for high-impact marketing initiatives, ensuring global and local teams can move with confidence across consumer and advertising law requirements.
  
• Set the vision for an artificial intelligence (AI)-first legal function — building tools, playbooks and self-service guidance that translate legal requirements into scalable product guardrails and approval routes, so the business moves faster with less legal friction.
  

What will you bring to the team?

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• Proven ability to guide Product, Tech and Engineering teams through complex international regulatory landscapes, translating legal requirements into practical frameworks teams can actually use.
  
• Deep knowledge of consumer protection and platform regulations affecting global digital platforms, with a track record of applying this commercially and at pace.
  
• Strong track record of leading, mentoring and developing legal professionals, with the ability to build a high-performing team in a fast-moving, global environment.
  
• Exceptional communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior executives and simplify complex legal issues for non-legal audiences.
  
• You hold the line on the things that matter — user trust, regulatory exposure, brand — without becoming a blocker.
  
• Professional legal qualification required to practise as an in-house lawyer in the UK, the Netherlands or Germany.
  

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat .

We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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