Legal Counsel

About the role

This position centers on providing comprehensive legal guidance for TradingView's global operations. The successful candidate will lead negotiations for various commercial agreements, including those for SaaS, cloud services, and market data licensing. This involves drafting and executing contracts with technology partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with legal frameworks, and managing vendor legal governance throughout the contract lifecycle.

The role requires acting as a senior legal advisor to executives and cross-functional teams on diverse legal matters. This includes market data regulation, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, and commercial risk. The counsel will also be responsible for developing and maintaining policies, training, and processes to enhance legal, IP, and data governance across the organization.

Success in this role means effectively managing legal strategy for intellectual property protection, enforcement, and dispute resolution. It also involves advising on data protection obligations, managing contentious matters, and identifying and mitigating legal and compliance risks associated with the company's products and operations. The counsel will support strategic initiatives and regulatory readiness, balancing legal risk with business objectives in a fast-paced environment.

The annual salary for this full-time remote Legal Counsel position is between $44,000 and $72,000 USD.

Skills that matter here

• commercial technology: This role requires experience negotiating and drafting commercial agreements specific to technology, SaaS, and cloud services.
• market data: The counsel will advise on market data usage, licensing, and compliance, and negotiate related agreements.
• intellectual property: This position involves leading legal strategy for the protection, enforcement, and commercialization of trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and software.
• data protection: The role requires advising on GDPR and other global privacy frameworks, data processing agreements, and cross-border data transfers.
• vendor contracting: The counsel will own and evolve vendor legal governance, advising on contract status, liability, and risk mitigation across the vendor lifecycle.
• disputes: This role involves managing and advising on contentious matters, including pre-litigation strategy and regulatory inquiries.

Who this role suits

• A lawyer with 3-5 years of post-qualification experience, specifically in commercial technology, IP, and data protection.
• Someone who thrives in a global technology or fintech environment, ideally with exposure to regulated markets and market data providers.
• An individual who can operate with a high degree of independence, demonstrating sound judgment and ownership in leading legal matters end-to-end.
• A professional with strong communication and influencing skills, capable of translating complex legal issues into clear business guidance for executives.

From the employer

What you'll do

• Lead the negotiation, drafting, and execution of complex commercial agreements with technology partners, strategic vendors, and service providers, focusing on SaaS, cloud, data processing, security, and market data licensing arrangements.
• Provide senior-level legal counsel to executives and cross-functional leadership on a broad range of legal matters, including market data regulation, intellectual property, disputes, data protection, cybersecurity, commercial risk, and regulatory exposure.
• Act as a key legal advisor on market data usage, redistribution, licensing compliance, and exchange/vendor agreements, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory and contractual frameworks.
• Own and evolve vendor legal governance - advising on contract status, liability allocation, risk mitigation, and performance obligations across the vendor lifecycle.
• Partner closely with Security, Engineering, Product, Compliance, and HR to ensure legal alignment on platform security, data protection, incident response, and secure product development.
• Lead legal strategy for protection, enforcement, dispute resolution, and commercialization of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, software, and other registered and unregistered rights globally.
• Manage and advise on contentious matters and disputes, including pre-litigation strategy, regulatory inquiries, and coordination with external counsel where required.
• Design, implement, and scale legal processes and contract management frameworks to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and risk visibility across the company.
• Advise on data protection and privacy obligations (including GDPR and global frameworks), data processing agreements, cross-border transfers, and product-related data risk.
• Identify, assess, monitor, manage, and report on legal and compliance risks associated with TradingView products, technology integrations, market data dependencies, and commercial operations.
• Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, and training to strengthen legal, IP, dispute management, security, and data governance across the organization.
• Support strategic initiatives, regulatory readiness, and special projects as required by senior leadership.

What makes you the perfect fit

• 3-5 years of PQE, with strong experience in commercial technology, market data, intellectual property, disputes, data protection, and vendor contracting.
• Proven experience supporting a global technology, fintech, or SaaS business; exposure to regulated environments, market data providers/exchanges, and interaction with regulators is advantageous.
• Deep expertise in negotiating complex commercial, technology, SaaS, cloud, data processing, market data licensing, and vendor agreements, with strong commercial and risk judgement.
• Demonstrated knowledge of intellectual property strategy and protection, including software, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and licensing, as well as experience handling IP-related disputes or enforcement matters.
• Experience managing or supporting disputes, litigation, or regulatory investigations, with the ability to assess risk and coordinate effective resolution strategies.
• Solid understanding of data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity frameworks (including GDPR), and experience advising on data risk, security, and cross-border data issues.
• High level of independence, sound judgement, and ownership, with the ability to lead matters end-to-end while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear business guidance.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, and product-driven environment, balancing legal risk with commercial and strategic objectives.
• Desirable: Experience in finance or trading domain; familiarity with TradingView as a product; private practice experience.