General Counsel

Target location: Europe (Spain)

Applications Close: Monday 8th December at 10am GMT

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we’re on a mission to empower educators and learners worldwide with open, flexible, and innovative digital learning solutions. As the world’s most customisable and trusted open-source LMS, we partner with schools, universities, and organisations to create better learning experiences for millions. If you’re ready to make a real impact,  and be part of a global movement shaping the future of learning, join us let’s transform education together!

About the Role

As Moodle’s General Counsel, you will lead and shape our global legal function, ensuring our legal frameworks support both our mission and commercial growth. You’ll oversee our in-house legal team, manage relationships with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and provide strategic advice across commercial, corporate, privacy, intellectual property and regulatory matters.

This is a highly influential leadership role for a commercially minded, solutions-focused legal expert with deep experience in IT/IP, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to navigate complex international legal landscapes.

What You’ll Do

Most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts and website terms.
• Building, maintaining and scaling Moodle’s global contract management framework and standard terms.
• Providing objective, commercially pragmatic advice on legal, privacy, commercial and regulatory issues.
• Leading, mentoring and developing a high-performing in-house legal team.
• Managing legal workflows, allocating priorities and ensuring timely delivery of guidance.
• Supporting M&A activity including due diligence, term sheets, and transaction documentation.
• Overseeing Moodle’s global privacy program, including GDPR compliance, DPIAs and coordination with our external DPO.
• Managing Moodle’s trademark and copyright portfolio and advising on IP protection and enforcement.
• Handling legal disputes, including IP infringement issues.
• Delivering internal legal and compliance training across the business.
• Streamlining legal processes and operational systems for efficiency and scalability.
• Partnering closely with global stakeholders, building trust and enabling business outcomes.
• Managing external legal counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Supporting company secretarial work and contributing to strategic organisational projects.

We’d love to meet you

Especially if you can tell us about your:

• Law degree and eligibility to practise in at least one recognised jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of post-qualified legal experience across commercial, corporate, privacy or regulatory areas.
• Native-level English communication skills (written and spoken).
• Experience working in IT, technology, software or IP-intensive environments.
• Meaningful experience with trademarks and global IP portfolio management.
• Strong background negotiating complex commercial agreements and high-value transactions.
• Experience supporting M&A processes and investor or due diligence activities.
• Consultative, collaborative and commercially pragmatic approach to legal work.
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships in a global, remote-first organisation.
• Leadership experience building or developing an in-house legal team.
• Strength in simplifying complexity, improving processes and driving operational excellence.
• High attention to detail, strong judgement and a proactive, solution-focused mindset.

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world

• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’
• Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference.
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

Learn more about Moodle

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide. 

Find out more about us on our website.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity & Inclusion Charter.