Corporate Counsel Dubai, UAE

Overview

We’re looking for a sharp, commercially minded, and execution-driven Corporate Counsel to join Ziina. In this role, you’ll build the legal function from the ground up, define scalable processes, and work with autonomy while collaborating cross-functionally across other areas. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor across the business—supporting day-to-day operations, complex transactions, growth, and everything in between. You’ll wear multiple hats as our in-house legal expert, balancing risk mitigation with business enablement in a fast-paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the legal foundation of a scaling company operating at the intersection of finance and technology.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including vendor, partner, employment, merchant, and consumer contracts.
• Lead product legal reviews to ensure all product features and offerings comply with applicable laws and deliver a seamless user experience.
• Advise cross-functional teams on legal risks and frameworks to enable fast yet responsible innovation, and collaborate with product teams to integrate legal and regulatory requirements into the product development lifecycle from inception to launch.
• Oversee corporate governance, including maintaining records, preparing board resolutions, and supporting fundraising and expansion.
• Build and implement scalable legal infrastructure using AI, automation and digital tools to streamline contracts, legal workflows, and risk assessments.
• Draft and maintain terms and conditions, privacy notices, and all customer-facing legal documentation for fintech products and services.
• Advise on data privacy requirements and work with technology teams to implement robust data handling practices.
• Support HR with employment law guidance, internal policy design, equity plan implementation, and cross-jurisdictional labor compliance.
• Advise on IP protection, including trademark filings, technology licensing, and contractor IP assignments.
• Manage litigation, dispute resolution, and contentious matters, oversee external counsel, and report case strategy to leadership.

Requirements

What would amaze us

About Ziina

Ziina’s mission is to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. We are building MENA’s consumer and SMB financial platform, starting with a peer-to-peer and merchant wallet. Our team have backgrounds from Apple, Uber, Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payments volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved by the UAE and is the recipient of 8 international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. Our last round was a $22 million Series A from top-tier investors globally including Altos Ventures, Fintech Collective, Activant, Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator. Our angel investors include early employees and executives at Revolut, Stripe, Venmo, Brex, Checkout.com, Notion, and Deel.

Join us in shaping the future of financial freedom. Every role here is an opportunity to make a real impact. Let’s build something that matters—together.

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