Legal & Compliance Officer

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Rayda is a fast-growing SaaS and HR/Workforce Technology company building the infrastructure for modern global teams. We serve clients across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, helping organisations hire, manage, and pay talent compliantly across borders. As we scale, we are looking for a sharp and commercially-minded Legal & Compliance Officer to join our team and help us navigate the legal and regulatory landscape of our global operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts including SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs, vendor contracts, and partnership agreements.
• Advise on corporate governance matters, entity structuring, and regulatory filings across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support M&A, fundraising, and investor relations activities from a legal and due diligence standpoint.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel in relevant markets to ensure cost-effective and timely legal support.
• Maintain and update the company's contract management system and legal templates library.

Data Privacy & GDPR Compliance

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all data privacy matters across the organisation.
• Ensure Rayda's products, services, and internal operations are compliant with GDPR, NDPR (Nigeria), POPIA (South Africa), CCPA (California), PDPA, and other applicable data protection regulations.
• Conduct and maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs).
• Draft and update privacy policies, cookie policies, data processing agreements (DPAs), and standard contractual clauses (SCCs).
• Manage data subject access requests (DSARs), data breach incidents, and regulatory notifications.
• Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default principles.

Regulatory & General Compliance

• Monitor and interpret changes in applicable laws and regulations across Rayda's operating regions and proactively communicate impact to the business.
• Develop, maintain, and enforce internal compliance policies, codes of conduct, and compliance training programmes.
• Support the preparation of regulatory submissions, licensing applications, and responses to regulatory enquiries.
• Assess and manage legal and compliance risks in new market entry strategies.
• Maintain compliance calendars and ensure timely filings, renewals, and statutory obligations are met across all jurisdictions.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Support

• Act as a trusted legal advisor to product, sales, engineering, finance, and people teams.
• Train and educate internal stakeholders on relevant legal and compliance topics.
• Support People & HR teams with employment-related legal matters across jurisdictions.
• Manage and improve legal operations processes and tooling to increase efficiency at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) and a recognised professional qualification (e.g., BL, SRA, NY Bar, or equivalent).
• 3 – 6 years of post-qualification legal experience, ideally spanning both in-house and law firm environments.
• Demonstrable expertise in commercial contracts and corporate law.
• Hands-on experience with GDPR compliance programmes, DPIAs, DPAs, and data subject rights management.
• Strong understanding of data protection law across multiple jurisdictions (EU, UK, US, and/or Africa).
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders in a remote, distributed environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure.
• Equity / stock option participation as we scale.
• Fully remote-first work culture with asynchronous flexibility.
• Annual learning & development budget for legal certifications, conferences, and courses.
• Access to a collaborative, high-growth team solving real problems for global workforces.
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional legal work across four continents.