Lawyer & Legal Product Builder

Location: Remote but Portugal-based. Some activities require being on the ground in Lisbon or Porto, so you should be able to travel there when needed.

Type: Full-time

Experience: Mid to Senior level

Expertise: Employment Law, Commercial Contracts, Corporate & Compliance, Data Protection, and a genuine appetite for technology

This is a great position for a law‑firm associate who wants to wear jeans and actually see the business their advice touches. We do serious legal work, but we don't make people suffer through billable‑hour theatre or face‑time in a suit just because. We offer real autonomy, schedule flexibility, and remote‑first work. It's about protecting and enabling the business, not papering files. It is about impact as well. So far, we've helped bring over €120M in direct foreign investment to the local economy.

A lawyer who wants to build, not just advise. We're not hiring an in‑house "department of no." We're hiring a lawyer with a tech inclination, someone who delivers legal services to our customers and helps us turn legal expertise into product. If you like ambition and pace, and you're curious about what happens when legal work meets software, this is for you.

BRIDGE IN is a bootstrapped, profitable (€25M+ revenue to date), and remote‑first company with the vision of eliminating the burden of bureaucracy by leveraging technology and innovation, empowering organizations worldwide to create opportunities and freeing people to focus on meaningful work.

What you will do

• Employment Contracts & Labour Law: Draft and review employment contracts in Portugal and own the legal substance behind our EOR offering — the contracts, terms, and labour‑law decisions that govern how we employ people on behalf of our customers.
• Commercial Agreements: Prepare and analyse customer and supplier agreements, confidentiality, sales, services, and own the contract lifecycle from draft to signature.
• Customer Legal Services: Be the legal expert our customers rely on. Provide clear, commercially‑minded guidance that supports their operations and keeps them compliant.
• Legal Product Liaison: Turn recurring legal work into product — playbooks, templates, and automations that let us deliver legal value at scale. We have a Product and Engineering team building, but we need you as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Corporate & Governmental Operations: Execute the legal operations that keep the company and our customers running, including power‑of‑attorney representation and interfacing with governmental agencies and public bodies.
• Public‑Facing Legal: Draft and maintain terms of use, disclaimer, and privacy policies. You own what the company says to the world, legally.
• Data Protection: Keep our customers and us GDPR‑compliant as a business handling employment and personal data across the EU.

Who you are

• A qualified Portuguese lawyer: Bachelor's / Master's degree in Law or similar, and membership of the Portuguese Bar (Ordem dos Advogados) is mandatory.
• Bilingual operator: Professional written and spoken English and Portuguese. Both are non‑negotiable. You'll work across an international team and a Portuguese legal reality every day.
• Grounded in Portuguese Labour Law: This is the core. You know it, or you're already deep in it.
• Commercially fluent: Working knowledge of GDPR. International Trade Law and Corporate Law are nice‑to‑haves that will make you stand out.
• A technology optimist: You don't need to code, but you need to believe legal work can be made better with software, letting automation carry the repetition and let humans focus on higher‑level work.
• Rigorous: You're deliberate and thorough. In legal work, "roughly right" isn't a thing. You catch what others miss.
• Self‑managing: You prioritise, manage your own time, and get things done without being chased. Comfortable with the corporate productivity stack (web conferencing, email, docs).
• A team‑first, can‑do player: No drama, no politics. You understand technology businesses, or you're genuinely curious about them.

What we offer

• Freedom: We're remote‑first. We care about outcomes, not office hours. (Note: some legal activities require on‑site presence in Lisbon or Porto, so you should be Portugal‑based and available to travel there when needed.)
• Impact: Your work directly protects and enables the growth of the business and our international customers, from unicorns to publicly traded companies.
• Stability: We're a profitable, healthy business. No existential funding anxiety here.
• Recognition on merit: You'll be recognised for what you deliver, not internal politics.
• Real benefits: Competitive salary, variable bonus aligned with business results, and Private Health Insurance.
• Growth: Career growth and continuous personal development, with a diverse international team and no jerks.

BRIDGE IN is working to support the future of work and decentralised companies, providing a Company‑as‑a‑Service platform to democratise access to opportunities, automate bureaucracy, and facilitate global expansion. BRIDGE IN is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion, and above all, merit.

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