Senior Legal Counsel

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and technology agreements, including strategic partnerships, supplier contracts, software licensing, and service-level agreements.
• Provide end-to-end legal support on complex corporate transactions, including M&A deals, joint ventures, strategic investments and debt financing.
• Advise cross-functional teams on regulatory, compliance, and governance matters across the tech, telco, and fintech sectors.
• Help design and implement scalable legal processes, frameworks, and policies to support a rapidly evolving business landscape.
• Partner with internal teams — from product to finance — to deliver proactive, solutions-oriented legal counsel that balances commercial objectives with legal integrity.
• Monitor emerging laws, regulatory developments, and industry trends to ensure compliance and enable innovation.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders across markets (GCC and LATAM) and departments.

Requirements

• Qualified legal professional (Preferably England & Wales & USA & Canada & Australia).
• 5–8 years post-qualification experience (PQE), ideally combining top-tier law firm training with in-house legal experience.
• Prior experience working in the GCC region is strongly preferred.
• Expertise in corporate, commercial law, M&A, debt financing, and contract negotiations.
• Familiarity with legal issues in the tech, telco, or fintech sectors is a strong advantage.
• Sophisticated written and verbal legal communication skills. Proficiency in Arabic and/or Spanish is an advantage.
• A pragmatic business mindset with exceptional stakeholder management skills; able to influence and advise senior leadership confidently.
• Self-driven and agile; capable of working autonomously while contributing to a collaborative, team-first culture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the tech, telco, or fintech sectors.
• Proficiency in Arabic and/or Spanish.
• Experience working in the GCC region.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment - flexibility to work from home 2 days a week in the UAE & Pakistan.
• Healthcare and other local benefits offered in market.
• Rapid learning opportunities - we enable learning through flexible career paths, exposure to challenging & meaningful work that will help build and strengthen your expertise.

About the Company

Beyond ONE is a digital services provider radically reshaping the personalised digital ecosystems of consumers in high growth markets around the world. We’re building a digital services aggregator platform, with a strong telco foundation, and a profitable growth strategy that empowers users to drive their own experience—subscribe once, source from many, and only pay for what you actually use. Since being founded in 2021, we’ve acquired Virgin Mobile MEA, Friendi Mobile MEA and Virgin Mobile LATAM (with 6.5 million subscribers) and 1600 dedicated colleagues across Chile, Colombia, KSA, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan and UAE.