At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. Since 2014, we’ve expanded from restaurant delivery to delivering (almost) everything, operating in 1000+ cities across 30+ countries. Together with DoorDash, we continue to scale globally and tackle complex challenges across markets.

Our Legal team plays a key role in enabling this growth by supporting the business on some of its most critical and fast-evolving topics. We are now looking for a Senior Employment Counsel to join our global employment legal team and take ownership of employment-related matters across the Nordics and Baltics. This role sits at the intersection of traditional employment law and new workforce models, offering a unique opportunity to work on high-impact, cutting-edge issues.

The position is based in Helsinki, Finland. 

Required language: English. Finnish is optional; additional European languages are a plus.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you will act as the primary legal partner for all employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions, supporting both employee and courier-related topics in a dynamic and evolving regulatory environment.

Day-to-day in this role you’ll:

• Provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice on employment law matters across the Nordics 
• Support a broad range of topics, including employees, independent contractors, and alternative workforce models
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders (HR, Operations, Policy, Legal) to support business initiatives and manage risk
• Lead and coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring high-quality and consistent advice
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and proactively advise on potential impacts to the business
• Contribute to global employment legal strategy and share best practices across regions 

Our humble expectations

• Fully qualified lawyer with significant experience in employment law (typically 8+ years), gained in a law firm and/or in-house
• Proven ability to work autonomously and lead complex, multi-jurisdictional matters
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge senior business partners
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to assume best intent and partner openly in navigating intersecting and/or ambiguous areas of legal responsibility with other members of the Legal team
• Experience advising on or exposure to non-traditional workforce models (e.g. independent contractors, platform work). We also value experience in working with matters involving trade unions. 
• Excellent judgment, with a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach to legal risk
• Fluent in English

What we offer

• A unique opportunity to own and shape employment legal strategy across a complex and high-impact region
• Exposure to cutting-edge legal, political and regulatory questions, particularly around the future of work and platform models
• A highly collaborative, international legal team of experienced employment lawyers
• A fast-paced, dynamic environment with significant autonomy and visibility
• The chance to work closely with senior stakeholders and influence key business decisions
• A hybrid working model and a culture that values flexibility and trust

Next steps

We review applications on a rolling basis and aim to move quickly with suitable candidates. The hiring process will include an initial conversation, interviews with the hiring manager and key stakeholders, and a case study exercise.

If you’re excited about working on complex, high-impact employment law topics in an international environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Role background

Are you a professional with a passion for making things run smoothly and efficiently? Do you enjoy working across a wide range of topics — from corporate housekeeping to compliance operations — and collaborating with different teams in a truly global environment? If so, we’d love to have you join our Legal team!

We are now looking to strengthen our Legal team with a Paralegal who will help us manage and improve legal operations and support our lawyers across various corporate, commercial, and compliance areas. You’ll be part of a dynamic, business-minded international legal function that works closely with teams across the company in multiple jurisdictions.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys ownership, thrives on structure and problem-solving, and wants to contribute to how we manage and scale legal work across multiple jurisdictions. Our ideal candidate is someone who is curious and eager to learn and wants to be part of creating something new. They are detail-oriented but also see the big picture, flexible, dynamic and proactively get things done. We also appreciate quick thinking and a can-do attitude of rolling up one’s sleeves and getting to work, no matter the task. We expect you to already have some work experience from working in an international setting involving legal topics.

We’re looking for the person to join our team at our Helsinki office.

What You´ll Be Doing

As our new Paralegal, you’ll play an important role in supporting our global Legal team. Your work will include a mix of ongoing operational tasks and improvement projects. Such tasks may include:

• Corporate and subsidiary governance
• Maintaining company records and registers across legal entities.
• Preparing and coordinating board and shareholder documents, PoAs and filings.
• Supporting annual compliance and audit processes.
• Supporting and managing KYC and signature processes.
• Compliance and legal operations
• Supporting compliance initiatives.
• Managing documentation, templates, and workflows to ensure legal team efficiency.
• Administrative and financial coordination
• Coordinating invoice and billing processes with the finance team and external law firms. Supporting in vendor onboarding.
• Assisting in maintaining accurate records in our legal systems.
• Cross-functional and project support
• Working closely with lawyers and stakeholders across different functions (Finance, Compliance, People, etc.) on recurring and ad hoc projects.
• Helping to improve internal processes and tools for the legal team. 

Our Humble Expectations

• Some prior experience as a legal assistant, paralegal or in a similar role — ideally in an international company or law firm.
• Strong organizational and project management skills; ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive, structured way of working.
• Great communication and collaboration skills — you’ll be working with many stakeholders across the company.
• Fluency in English (Finnish or other languages are a plus).
• Experience with legal systems or tools (e.g. entity management or document management systems) is a plus.
• Experience from using AI solutions to gain efficiencies in work. 

We’re looking for a practical, hands-on person who enjoys supporting others, building structure, and finding better ways of doing things. You don’t need to know everything on day one — curiosity, initiative, and a can-do attitude will take you far at Wolt.

Additional Information

If you are excited about working with the nicest of people, in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an ambitious team, then click below to apply and let’s get the conversation going!