In-House Legal Counsel (Beauty-Tech)

About the role

Salonkee, a beauty-tech company whose software helps salons manage appointments, payments and clients, is hiring its first in-house lawyer in Luxembourg. This is a hybrid, hands-on role covering legal and compliance work across six markets, with contracts, privacy, employment and security topics often in the same week. You will work with every team, alongside outside law firms and the external data protection officer.

Key responsibilities

• Data protection: lead the privacy programme under GDPR and Swiss data protection law, including the sub-processor list and contact with data protection authorities
• Security and privacy: partner with heads of department on privacy reviews of new tools and apps, and lead the legal side of incident response
• Policies and training: write and maintain internal rules on customer data and AI use, and train teams from Sales to Customer Support
• Digital regulation: advise on EU rules for platforms, consumers and AI, including the Digital Services Act, the AI Act, the Data Act and NIS2
• Contracts: own standard terms and negotiate partner, supplier, payment and enterprise agreements
• Employment: advise HR and managers on labour law across the markets
• Disputes: handle claims and disputes, working with outside counsel when needed
• Strategy: advise leadership on new products, new markets and fundraising, and track new law

Required profile

• Qualified lawyer with 5+ years' experience in a tech-focused law firm or in-house legal team
• Experience across several European countries
• Fluent English, plus fluent French or German
• A pragmatic generalist who switches easily between topics, talks data flows with engineers and gives clear, risk-based answers in plain words

Required skills

• Hands-on GDPR experience, including regulator contact
• Strong commercial contract skills, ideally in SaaS
• Knowledge of EU digital rules (DSA, AI Act, NIS2) or security frameworks such as ISO 27001 is a plus

What we offer

• The chance to build the legal function from day one
• A strategic, high-impact role with direct exposure to the leadership team
• A dynamic, international and supportive work environment with a strong team culture
• A competitive remuneration package