Legal Counsel (Audits & Certifications)

Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform that enables scalable compliance. From identity and business verification to ongoing monitoring, our platform adapts to your risk appetite and market demands, ensuring global compliance. Customize analytics and workflows with our no-code interface. With over 4,000 clients across fintech, crypto, transportation, trading, e-commerce, education, and iGaming—including Bitpanda, Wirex, Avis, Bybit, Vodafone, Duolingo, Kaizen Gaming, and TransferGo. Our products are recognised by industry leaders like Gartner's Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave™ and Frost Radar™. We are looking for a Legal Counsel (Audits & Certifications) to support our certification and audit projects, ensuring our products and processes comply with key international standards and frameworks.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Analyze certification and regulatory standards (e.g. ETSI, NIST, eIDAS, ISO/IEC 29115, ISO/IEC 29003, age verification standards, ISO 27701, ISO 9001, ISO 31000).
• Define, structure, and maintain required evidence for audits and certifications.
• Identify and collect proof from various teams (infosec, data privacy, product, etc.) and ensure it is complete and audit-ready.
• Draft and maintain legal and compliance documentation (policies, procedures, memoranda, etc.).
• Participate in internal and external audits as part of the certification & audit team, including communication with auditors.
• Monitor changes in relevant standards and assess their impact on existing certifications and processes.

About You:

Must have:

Law degree.

• Practical experience with certifications and/or audits.
• Strong analytical and legal research skills; ability to work with large volumes of information.
• Meticulous, highly organized, and attentive to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
• Good command of English (written and spoken).

Nice to have:

• Experience in tech/fintech/regtech/digital identity or regulated industries.
• Experience in multi-jurisdictional certification projects.
• Background working with information security, data privacy, or risk management.

What We Offer:

• Fully remote and flexible working schedule, with access to a coworking space (in some locations).
• Working with a product that matters. Our technology helps to protect millions of users and lots of online services worldwide.
• International project. Our team works from offices in Berlin, Limassol, London, and Miami, our customers are spread from Mexico and the USA to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore.

1 extra day off to celebrate your birthday. 7 additional days to enjoy the Christmas & New Year holidays. 7 days of sick leave (without the need for documentation).

• Regular, fully covered team offsites to connect and collaborate.
• Learning opportunities and support to attend industry events with the team.
• The hiring stages: TA screening -> Hiring Manager Interview.
• Sounds like a great opportunity for your career development? Then go ahead and apply!

We are a global community of innovators, creators, and thinkers, and we believe that diversity fuels our innovation. Sumsub is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Join us in shaping the future inclusively.