About the role
At Catawiki, we connect millions of enthusiasts with exceptional objects - from dinosaur skeletons to luxury watches and cultural treasures. As Europe's fastest-growing online auction platform, we combine startup energy with scale-up ambition.
We're looking for a Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel who thrives at the intersection of business and regulation. This is a unique opportunity to shape commercial deals and compliance strategy in one of Europe's most exciting marketplaces.
What you'll do
• Drive commercial growth - draft, review, and negotiate impactful agreements across SaaS, strategic partnerships, procurement, international expansion, and platform operations.
• Shape compliance strategy - design and evolve frameworks covering consumer law, AML & sanctions, Digital Services Act, cultural property, product safety, and other platform obligations.
• Cut through complexity - distill complex legal and regulatory questions into clear business choices, aligned with Catawiki's risk appetite.
• Be a trusted business partner - provide pragmatic, risk-based guidance to product, tech, marketing, and commercial teams.
• Structure and lead projects - oversee regulatory rollouts, new market entries, and cross-border deals from start to finish, ensuring effective delivery.
• Strengthen the function for scalable impact - design smart processes, playbooks, templates, and training that embed legal and compliance awareness into everyday decision-making, ensuring the function scales with the business.
• Mentor and coach - support junior counsels, empowering them to grow into broader responsibilities across commercial and compliance topics.
What you'll bring
• A qualified EU lawyer with 8+ years' experience spanning commercial law and compliance, ideally in e-commerce, tech, or platform businesses.
• Proven ability to negotiate cross-border agreements and navigate complex, international regulatory landscapes.
• Experienced in balancing legal accuracy with commercial pragmatism, applying a risk-based approach.
• Confident in advising on both contracts and compliance frameworks (SaaS, vendor, and marketplace agreements; AML, sanctions, consumer law, DSA, product regulation).
• A strong communicator who can influence and align stakeholders at every level - from engineers, commercial teams to executives.
• Strong project management skills and comfort working in matrixed, cross-functional teams
• Hands-on, adaptable, and excited to learn and deliver impact across multiple legal domains.
• Fluent in English; other European languages (Dutch) are a plus.
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