Senior Legal Counsel

Emerging Travel Group is a global travel-tech company whose brands have been operating in over 220 source markets since 2010. We specialize in developing advanced online booking platforms for all types of clients — from individual tourists to travel agents and companies organizing business trips. Our solutions empower hoteliers to effortlessly showcase their accommodations, boosting visibility and attracting a broader audience. Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone. This is a remote vacancy open to candidates residing in Europe, USA and UK.

Job Responsibilities: • Commercial Contracting • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements and public-facing legal documentation supporting business operations, growth and risk management.

• Structuring contractual frameworks, identifying legal and commercial risks and providing practical, business-oriented solutions. 

• Product & Business Support • Supporting the design and launch of new travel products, booking flows, payment solutions and commercial models across multiple jurisdictions. • Advising on booking flows, ancillary products, customer journeys, cancellation and refund mechanics, and other customer-facing features from a legal and regulatory perspective. • Partnering with cross-functional teams to design compliant business, contractual and payment flows and ensure alignment with applicable legal requirements. • Supporting international expansion initiatives, including market entry projects, local regulatory assessments and implementation of new business models. 

• Regulatory, Payments & Expansion • Monitoring legal and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions and assessing their impact on the business. • Advising on legal and regulatory requirements applicable to online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, travel regulation, package travel, intermediary liability, payment regulation and digital platform regulation. • Advising on payment flows, merchant models, PSP integrations and regulatory implications of international payment structures. • Leading implementation of regulatory changes, managing external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and translating local legal advice into practical, scalable business solutions.