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The Role We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join Bird's legal team and support our commercial, product, and corporate legal work. You'll partner closely with leadership across Sales, Product, Finance, and People to provide pragmatic legal guidance in a fast-moving environment.

The role is broad in scope: you'll handle complex commercial deals, help shape our data privacy posture, and advise on regulatory matters across multiple jurisdictions.

What You'll Do Commercial Contracts Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including enterprise SaaS contracts, data processing agreements, vendor agreements, and partnerships Advise the Sales and Business Development teams on deal structure, risk allocation, and contract strategy Product & Privacy Advise Product and Engineering on legal and regulatory

requirements across Bird's messaging, email, and voice products Support compliance with global data protection frameworks including GDPR, CCPA, and applicable telecom regulations Review product launches, marketing programs, and new market entries for legal risk Corporate & Employment Support corporate governance, board matters, and subsidiary management across Bird's global entity structure Advise the People team on employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions Cross-functional Partnership Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders and act as a practical, solution-oriented legal partner Help develop and scale legal processes, templates, and self-serve resources What You'll Bring 6+ years of legal experience, with at least 2 years in-house at a technology or SaaS company Strong commercial contracts background with experience negotiating enterprise software agreements Solid understanding of data protection law (GDPR, CCPA) and telecom or messaging regulation is a plus Comfortable working independently and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, distributed environment Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers Licensed to practice law in the United States (JD required) Ready to join us? Send your resume to [email protected] with

The world’s largest omnichannel communications platform.

Bird CRM powers communication between businesses and their customers — across any channel, always with the right context, and on every corner of the planet. Its products and solutions are the foundational building blocks to business communications across preferred channels, like SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, Email and more. Founded in 2011, Bird connects to billions of devices and is trusted by nearly 20,000 customers worldwide.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, Bird operates across nine global hubs — including Singapore, Dublin, Shanghai, Sydney, London, Bogota and Asuncion — and is proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company. Its team of 500 employees represent more than 55 nationalities.

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