Legal & Compliance Officer

This is a remote position.

Rayda is a fast-growing SaaS and HR/Workforce Technology company building the infrastructure for modern global teams. We serve clients across Africa Europe North America and Asia-Pacific helping organisations hire manage and pay talent compliantly across borders. As we scale we are looking for a sharp and commercially-minded Legal & Compliance Officer to join our team and help us navigate the legal and regulatory landscape of our global operations.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate & Commercial Law

• Draft review and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts including SaaS agreements MSAs NDAs vendor contracts and partnership agreements.
  
• Advise on corporate governance matters entity structuring and regulatory filings across multiple jurisdictions.
  
• Support M&A fundraising and investor relations activities from a legal and due diligence standpoint.
  
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel in relevant markets to ensure cost-effective and timely legal support.
  
• Maintain and update the companys contract management system and legal templates library.
  

Data Privacy & GDPR Compliance

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all data privacy matters across the organisation.
  
• Ensure Raydas products services and internal operations are compliant with GDPR NDPR (Nigeria) POPIA (South Africa) CCPA (California) PDPA and other applicable data protection regulations.
  
• Conduct and maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs).
  
• Draft and update privacy policies cookie policies data processing agreements (DPAs) and standard contractual clauses (SCCs).
  
• Manage data subject access requests (DSARs) data breach incidents and regulatory notifications.
  
• Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default principles.
  

Regulatory & General Compliance

• Monitor and interpret changes in applicable laws and regulations across Raydas operating regions and proactively communicate impact to the business.
  
• Develop maintain and enforce internal compliance policies codes of conduct and compliance training programmes.
  
• Support the preparation of regulatory submissions licensing applications and responses to regulatory enquiries.
  
• Assess and manage legal and compliance risks in new market entry strategies.
  
• Maintain compliance calendars and ensure timely filings renewals and statutory obligations are met across all jurisdictions.
  

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Support

• Act as a trusted legal advisor to product sales engineering finance and people teams.
  
• Train and educate internal stakeholders on relevant legal and compliance topics.
  
• Support People & HR teams with employment-related legal matters across jurisdictions.
  
• Manage and improve legal operations processes and tooling to increase efficiency at scale.
  

Requirements

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelors degree in Law (LLB) and a recognised professional qualification (e.g. BL SRA NY Bar or equivalent).
  
• 3 6 years of post-qualification legal experience ideally spanning both in-house and law firm environments.
  
• Demonstrable expertise in commercial contracts and corporate law.
  
• Hands-on experience with GDPR compliance programmes DPIAs DPAs and data subject rights management.
  
• Strong understanding of data protection law across multiple jurisdictions (EU UK US and/or Africa).
  
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities deadlines and stakeholders in a remote distributed environment.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex legal issues into clear actionable guidance.
  

Preferred

• Prior in-house legal experience at a SaaS fintech or HR technology company.
  
• Familiarity with employment law across African and European markets.
  
• Experience supporting international expansion cross-border contracting or multi-entity corporate structures.
  
• Exposure to data privacy tooling (e.g. OneTrust TrustArc or similar).
  
• CIPP/E CIPM or equivalent data privacy certification is a strong advantage.
  
• Comfort working in early-to-mid stage technology companies with a high degree of autonomy.
  

Benefits

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure.
  
• Equity / stock option participation as we scale.
  
• Fully remote-first work culture with asynchronous flexibility.
  
• Annual learning & development budget for legal certifications conferences and courses.
  
• Access to a collaborative high-growth team solving real problems for global workforces.
  
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional legal work across four continents.
  

Rayda is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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