Legal Counsel

The Company  

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About the role

As a Legal Counsel on our Legal team, you will support the company’s growing business and provide support as we scale. As a team member of an innovative insurance intermediary involved in transactions across the globe, the Legal Counsel will work cross functionally with the insurance, marketing, compliance, and product teams to apply their expertise and practical advice. To drive success in this role, you will be a fully qualified lawyer in the Netherlands or United Kingdom.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements (including distribution agreements, insurance partnership agreements, reinsurance agreements, non disclosure agreements, and vendor agreements) that support and enable our global business operations.
• Provide product-related regulatory compliance support, including legal advice with respect to developments across the European Union and United Kingdom that could impact variable products.
• Set up insurance regulatory structures for distribution partners, including with respect to Appointed Representatives in the United Kingdom and under the EU’s Insurance Distribution Directive.
• Perform legal review marketing materials, advertisements, and press releases. 
• Assist with client communications and dispute management. 
• Provide business-oriented advice by balancing risks and business rewards
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

• 5+ years in a Legal Counsel role
• Fully qualified lawyer in the Netherlands or United Kingdom.
• Fluent in English.
• Proven establishment of effective relationships with business partners and peers to understand their business drivers and strategic priorities. 
• Sound business judgment and adaptability to manage multiple wide-ranging matters and conflicting deadlines.
• Ability to work in a fast paced workplace/company, complying with short internal SLAs.

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.