Junior Lawyer Legal Counsel
Job Summary
Job Description
MGID is a global advertising platform that helps publishers monetize their audiences and enables brands to promote their products and services across the open web effectively. Using AI-powered technology we deliver high-quality native display and video ads in brand-safe environments balancing user experience and performance.
Our Legal team is a small senior group with global reach supporting every part of the business from employment matters across jurisdictions to commercial agreements and internal compliance. We work fast think practically and treat legal as a business enabler not a blocker.
This role joins that team as a hands-on detail-driven contributor freeing up senior lawyers for complex matters while building a solid legal foundation of your own.
What Youll Do
- Provide day-to-day administrative support to the Legal team translations document formatting template maintenance and tracking of internal requests
- Prepare review and update employment contracts addendums and HR-related documents under the supervision of senior lawyers
- Maintain and continuously improve the template library for legal and HR documentation ensuring consistency across the company globally
- Monitor changes in labour legislation across relevant jurisdictions; summarise updates and flag potential impacts to the team
- Support internal compliance reviews identify basic risks in HR processes and escalate them appropriately
- Assist in drafting and updating internal policies codes of conduct and HR procedures
- Be the first point of support for the HR team on routine employment queries: onboarding and offboarding documentation standard employee requests and straightforward employment questions
- Draft legal summaries internal notes and brief memos on HR-related matters
- Support senior lawyers on more complex tasks such as terminations disciplinary processes and restructuring with increasing independence over time
- Keep legal files and correspondence accurately organised and accessible
Requirements
Who You Are
- You hold a Law degree (Bachelors or Masters) from an accredited university a specialisation in Labour or Employment Law is a strong advantage
- You have 1 year of relevant experience in-house at a law firm or in a paralegal capacity; what matters is that you have had real exposure to legal or HR documentation
- You are fluent in English (Upper-Intermediate or above) you work with English-language contracts and documents daily; written accuracy is non-negotiable
- You are fluent in Ukrainian
- You genuinely enjoy operational and administrative work not as something you tolerate on the way to bigger things but as work you take pride in doing well
- You are comfortable working with legal frameworks you have not encountered before you know how to research legislation analyse it and turn it into a practical recommendation
- You are an effective communicator clear in writing professional in tone and comfortable liaising with stakeholders across different teams and time zones
- You possess a high standard of integrity confidentiality and professional ethics
Where You Are Located
- You are based in Ukraine or anywhere in Europe within UTC0 to UTC3. We work in European business hours and we ask for at least a two-hour overlap with the core team window.
- If you are in Kyiv hybrid office visits are possible and welcome but remote-first is the default.
Ready to grow with us
We are looking for someone who wants to build a legal career not just fill a role. If you care about doing things properly enjoy the satisfaction of a well-structured document and want to develop across employment law HR compliance and multi-jurisdictional work we would love to meet you.
About Company
Santa Monica-based MGID is one of the first native performance advertising platforms worldwide and services thousands of publishers with billions of news stories every day, delivering marketing solutions for advertisers that key into consumer interests without disrupting their online ... View more