Legal Counsel

About the role

This position focuses on commercial legal work, including negotiating and drafting agreements with technology partners, vendors, and service providers. The scope covers SaaS, cloud services, data processing, security, and market data licensing. The role requires providing senior-level legal counsel on market data regulation, intellectual property, data protection, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with legal and contractual frameworks.

A key aspect of this role is managing vendor legal governance, which involves advising on contract status, liability, risk mitigation, and performance obligations throughout the vendor lifecycle. The Legal Counsel will also collaborate with Security, Engineering, Product, Compliance, and HR teams to align legal strategies on platform security, data protection, and secure product development.

The successful candidate will lead the legal strategy for intellectual property protection, enforcement, and commercialization, covering trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets globally. This includes managing contentious matters and disputes, designing legal processes for efficiency, and advising on data protection and privacy obligations under GDPR and other frameworks. The role also involves identifying and managing legal and compliance risks across company products and operations.

The salary for this position ranges from $44,000 to $72,000 annually.

Skills that matter here

• commercial technology: The role requires experience in commercial technology law to negotiate and draft agreements with technology partners and service providers.
• market data: This position involves advising on market data regulation, usage, redistribution, and licensing compliance.
• intellectual property: The counsel will lead strategies for protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, including software, trademarks, and copyrights.
• data protection: Advising on data protection and privacy obligations, including GDPR and cross-border data issues, is a core responsibility.
• vendor contracting: The role involves deep expertise in negotiating complex vendor agreements and managing vendor legal governance.
• disputes: The counsel will manage and advise 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, market data, IP, and data protection.
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, product-driven environment and can balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• An individual capable of operating with a high degree of independence and sound judgment, leading matters end-to-end.
• A professional with strong communication and influencing skills, able to translate 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.