--- title: "Senior Legal Counsel" company: "Flipdish" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/flipdish" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/flipdish-senior-legal-counsel-2de344f7-539f-4051-88c6-1ae9f11f359c" apply_url: "https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/flipdish/jobs/4980712101" workplace: hybrid location: "Ireland - Dublin Hub (Hybrid)" employment_type: unspecified seniority: senior role: finance-legal region: europe date_posted: 2026-09-18T17:10:37.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-18T18:07:50.371Z --- # Senior Legal Counsel **Flipdish** · Ireland - Dublin Hub (Hybrid) Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/flipdish/jobs/4980712101 ## About Flipdish Flipdish is the AI-first restaurant management platform trusted by 5,000+ brands. From AI phone agents and predictive analytics to POS, online ordering and kiosks, built for restaurants that want to lead. ## About the role At Flipdish, we’re turning the tables in favour of independent restaurant and takeaway owners by offering them powerful, simple-to-use tech solutions backed by real human support. Everything we do is designed to make running a restaurant satisfyingly simple in a world that’s anything but. #### About the Role You’ll be part of the team supporting Flipdish’s mission to make running a restaurant satisfyingly simple. This role is a generalist role with an emphasis on two core regulatory mindset areas - **employment law** and **data protection** - alongside an interesting and varied mix of other legal work spanning corporate, M&A, IP and equity. . You’ll partner closely with our People, Finance, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to provide pragmatic, risk-aware guidance, help shape internal processes, and ensure the business stays compliant. #### What you’ll own - Lead employment law support across the business - Lead data protection compliance key data-protection processes. - Steward privacy policy and marketing compliance: maintain privacy policy updates and ensure direct marketing practices (including SMS compliance) are handled lawfully. - Maintain training and standards for key teams (People, Support, and others) so compliance is practical and repeatable. - Challenge poor decisions and propose better ways of working. Constructive challenge is a responsibility - prioritising harmony over truth or progress is a failure of responsibility. #### What success looks like - You are involved partner to the business who isn’t confined to their legal swim lane - You take a proactive approach to employment-law and handle issues consistently, with timely and well-documented advice. - You ensure data subject requests are handled with clear legal triage, governance, and defensible timelines. - You strengthen our compliance culture through targeted training and practical guidance that teams can apply. - You own Companies Act compliance for our Irish entities alongside third party company secretarial support. - You scan for relevant legal changes that will impact our business and take a proactive approach to getting ahead of these. - You are a key part of the team managing our employee equity structure. - You are well known in the Commercial team for transacting partner contracts and triaging some novel customer queries. #### About You You’ll thrive in this role if you: - Have ~5+ years PQE (qualified as a solicitor in Ireland). - Can demonstrate strong experience across employment law and practical risk management. - Have credible GDPR / data protection experience, including comfort engaging with regulators and leading privacy assessments. - Communicate clearly with non-lawyers, translate legal risk into actionable next steps, and manage sensitive situations with discretion. - Take high ownership: you don’t wait to be told what to do. - Challenge poor decisions and propose better ways of working. - Embrace technology to augment your work and build efficient processes The following would help you stand out. - In-house experience in a tech / data-driven environment. - Experience with privacy policy governance, marketing compliance, and operational DSAR oversight. - Exposure to other EU regulatory areas (e.g., digital or accessibility-related compliance) where privacy intersects. #### What You Get We’re a growing startup and we understand that amazing incentives will attract amazing talent. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer unparalleled opportunities for career growth. If you’re smart, ambitious, and hard-working, we’ll do whatever it takes to make you a Flipdisher! - Hub model (hybrid): a healthy blend of hub + home working (2 days per week from our Sandyford office) - Time off: 25 days annual leave + public holidays - Private healthcare - Pension: Retirement savings support (Ireland) - Equity (ESOP): share options, so you can share in Flipdish’s long-term success - Team connection: regular team meet-ups and company events - Commuter supports: TaxSaver / travel schemes (where available) #### Our Culture At Flipdish, we’re on the side of independent restaurant and takeaway owners, running busy operations on tight margins with rising costs, staffing challenges, and an increasingly demanding customer base. Our job is to make their lives easier with technology that’s powerful, satisfyingly simple, and backed by real human support. Our integrated ecosystem, spanning online ordering, marketing, loyalty, point of sale, menu optimisation, and operational automation, helps restaurants grow while staying in control. We’re an AI-first company, and we use it to help our customers get better outcomes, faster ordering, smarter marketing, and smoother operations, so owners and teams can spend more time on what matters. Inside the company, we value ownership and clarity, with a friendly, people-led culture behind it. We trust our people to help shape what kind of employer Flipdish is, not just follow a script. Transparency is huge for us: we listen to each other, and create the space for people to grow (with balance, not burnout). We’re focused on impact and team energy, not “being seen”. You’ll have meaningful scope, work closely with smart people across teams, and be trusted to make things better as Flipdish scales. If you’d like to read more about interviewing at Flipdish, [please check out our Interviewing at Flipdish guide.](https://www.flipdish.com/downloads/Flipdish-Interview-Guide-2026.pdf) --- Source: Flipdish's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/flipdish-senior-legal-counsel-2de344f7-539f-4051-88c6-1ae9f11f359c