Legal Counsel

Milestone is looking for a new Legal Counsel to support our business in delivering on our strategy.

Are you interested in working with contracts, technology, GDPR, and AI? Then come and join Milestone’s Legal & Compliance team as our new Legal Counsel.

You will join a leading, global provider of video management software and will support our business while supporting our agenda for ethical tech and responsible use of technology. 

Key Responsibilities

You will act as a legal business partner for our Product & Tech business unit as well as for our internal IT department. In addition, you will support our stand-alone business unit, BrighterAI, working with anonymization software. 

In addition, you will support or drive various legal related projects as well as strategic initiatives run by the Milestone business.

The work will include the following:

• Legal Advisory: Providing legal advice, support and guidance on a wide range of topics, including AI Act, Data Act and GDPR.
   
• Contract Advisory and Support: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal agreements.
   
• Regulatory Interpretation: Interpreting laws and regulations relevant to the business and translating them into actionable internal policies or recommendations.
   
• Risk Identification: Identifying legal risks and proposing mitigation strategies in collaboration with business stakeholders.
   
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Acting as a trusted advisor to internal teams, ensuring legal considerations are integrated into business decisions.
   
• Training and Awareness: Developing and delivering training programs to promote awareness.
   
• External Collaboration: Engaging with regulators and external advisors as needed to support legal advisory efforts.
   
• Policy and Template Development and Maintenance: Supporting the creation and maintenance of internal legal policies, templates, and governance frameworks.
   
• Dispute Resolution Support: Assisting in the management of potential legal disputes, claims, or investigations, including coordination with external counsel when needed.
   

To succeed in the role, you must have:

• An academic legal background (Cand.Jur or Cand.merc Jur)
• Strong English language skills
• 1-3 years’ working experience 
• The competence to work both with individual deliverables and as a part of a team/project
• An eagerness to work in an international setting
• A keen interest in working with contracts, technology, IP, AI and GDPR and experience working with the same
• It is an advantage if you have experience working in or with the software industry

We are looking for a person who by nature take ownership and is a responsible person with excellent communication skills. You have the ability to establish structure in an ever-changing world. You must be flexible, resilient with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels and good at taking initiatives. You are a curious person with a strong will to learn. You are good with details and accuracy but have a sense of urgency. You are a strong team player, but you also enjoy working as an individual. You possess a “can do” approach and you can prioritize a varied workload and demonstrate good time management to comply with deadlines.
 

If you join Milestone’s Legal & Compliance team

The Legal & Compliance team consists of 14 legal and compliance professionals globally who supports Milestone’s global business. 

The Legal & Compliance team plays a vital role in Milestone both providing the guardrails for the business and providing legal support to the business. We are committed to delivering high-quality legal and compliance advice and supporting Milestone’s ambition to be a responsible technology company.

If you join us, you can expect to work with a team of talented professionals who are passionate about technology and digitalization as well as legal topics. We offer a dynamic work environment that encourages creativity and collaboration. 
 

Our Culture

Milestone has a strong culture to support our spirit as an innovative and dynamic company where our employees are the source of our success. We have defined our values and our compass for behaviors to support our mutual respect and to reach our strategic goals which are communicated clearly to engage all employees.  Milestone is an organization where employee job satisfaction and a good social atmosphere is a priority. We have a very active personnel club with a range of different events, a sports club, a gym, an in-house masseur, a reflexologist, and an all-inclusive canteen. 


Application and contact

Please apply using the” Apply” button. 

You will experience an inclusive and unbiased recruitment process where all employment decisions are based on qualifications rather than race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and religion. We advise you not to attach a cover letter to your application but instead, we encourage you to write a few lines about why you are applying for the position in your resume/CV. Additionally we recommend you not add a photo in your resume/CV.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Group General Counsel, Thomas Junker Jensen at +45 51680373.

You can also find out more about Milestone Systems at Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter or visit our website: www.milestonesys.com

 Please note that the position is on-site at our headquarters in Brøndby, Denmark, and requires that you have a valid Danish work visa

We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found