Job Description

This is a unique opportunity to join Verisure Netherlands as Legal Director, reporting directly to the Managing Director Netherlands and serving as a key member of the local Management Team. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team of two professionals and work closely with Dutch leadership, Cluster, and Group Legal teams to shape the legal agenda of a fast-growing, entrepreneurial business.

We are one of Europe’s fastest-growing and most profitable businesses, driven by a clear mission: to protect what matters most. With low market penetration and a resilient recurring revenue model, the runway for growth is vast—making this an exciting time to join.

In our fast-moving B2C subscription business, Legal sits at the center of the action. This position spans multiple legal domains and partners closely with commercial teams, giving you the chance to make an immediate impact while sharpening your business mindset. Expect real responsibility, continuous learning, and the momentum to accelerate your career.

You will also become part of a global team of over 100 lawyers and professionals across legal, compliance, privacy, IP, AI, and government/regulatory affairs. We work as an integrated network—sharing expertise, developing best practices, and delivering best-in-class legal partnership across all geographies.

Legal Leaders at Verisure are true business enablers. Their mission is to deliver value through innovative legal thinking, impactful regulatory advocacy, and leadership in protecting our reputation and building trust with customers and stakeholders for sustainable growth. You will be at the forefront of legal strategy in a company that is constantly evolving—offering cutting-edge products and services in a dynamic market.

We’re growing fast, we’re doing it right - and we’re still just getting started!

About Verisure

Verisure is the number one provider of professionally monitored security services with 24/7 response in Europe and Latin America. Every day, our dedicated teams use leading technology to keep over 6 million families and small businesses safe from intruders, fire and health emergencies. Our mission is to give our customers peace of mind by protecting what matters most to them. This is founded on our belief that everyone has the right to feel safe and secure.

Since being founded in Sweden in 1988, we have expanded across Europe, and opened operations in Latin America, with our customers now spanning 18 countries. Thanks to a strong focus on high quality service, we aim to have the most satisfied and loyal portfolio of customers in the industry. We estimate that we have some of the strongest growth and retention rates globally in consumer-facing services, which demonstrates our commitment to exceptional service levels and strong value proposition to our customers.

Alongside the Verisure brand, we operate as Securitas Direct in Spain, Portugal and for business customers in Sweden. In 2020, Arlo Europe became part of Verisure.

We are building on over 35 years of expertise so that our growth and innovation continues to shape the future of the security industry.

For more information: www.verisure.com and our Investors Page, including our company presentation and annual report.

Verisure in the Netherlands

Over the past five years, Verisure Netherlands has delivered exceptional performance - growing market share from 5% to 30%, generating over €90M in revenue, and securing the #1 position in its addressable market. Today, more than 100,000 customers rely on our solutions, supported by 800+ committed professionals.

Despite our strong trajectory, the Dutch monitored security market remains underpenetrated—offering a rare, high-return growth opportunity. With a proven model and scalable operations, we are set to capture this potential and, by 2028, double our footprint and triple our scale—elevating Verisure Netherlands into a large, market-defining enterprise.

Responsibilities of the Legal Director - Netherlands

In a fast-paced B2C subscription business, you’ll gain exposure across multiple domains while sharpening your commercial mindset and strategic thinking. What makes this role exceptional is its scope. Expect real responsibility, continuous learning, and the momentum to accelerate your career.

Comprehensive Legal Advisory:

• Consumer Protection & Go to Market regulations: Provide expertise on Go to Market regulations to advise the business on marketing, advertising and sales materials, initiatives and processes, as well as collaborations in this area with third parties, covering consumer protection and marketing regulation, data privacy, service specific regulation.
• Compliance Program: Lead the implementation of the Group Compliance Program (Mini standards) and the corresponding NL program, promote a culture of integrity, and deliver training and advice to ensure ethical business practices; Lead the local action plan to ensure the deployment of the Compliance Program. Local monitoring of the risk matrix.
• Legal compliance: Ensure full compliance within key legal compliance areas, including duty of vigilance, competition, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering regulation. Support the deployment of the ESG Program with Group legal & Group HR.
• Governmental and Regulatory Affairs: Manage relationships with regulatory bodies and contribute to industry regulation evolution. Ensure business compliance in a regulated sector of private security activity. Together with Head of Operations, further our partnering with police and other emergency response agencies to further strengthen our alarm response services. Keep abreast of key regulatory and legal trends to anticipate impacts on the business with regulatory monitoring.
• Data Privacy: Lead the implementation of the Group Data Privacy Program and the corresponding UK&I program, and work closely with business teams on privacy by design solutions and relevant DPIAs, process design, and contract terms for customer data management.
• Commercial Contracting: Work closely with the business teams on contracts with customers, suppliers, alliances, partnerships, franchisees, and sales partners. Implement digital customer contracting solutions.
• Fair Competition : Monitor competitors’ claims and practices and take legal action where justified, and ensure our practices can be defended from a fair competition perspective.
• Intellectual Property: Together with the Group IP team, defend and develop the Verisure trademark and brand, protecting critical business know-how.
• Employment Law: Support HR on employment law issues and support legal aspects of HR policies. Including helping on the implementation of new labor laws.

Strategic Business Adviser:

• Provide pragmatic and commercial legal guidance to shape business strategies and plans through strategic legal advice. As a business enabler, provide concrete solutions that can be implemented within the company.
• Open-mindedness for a 360° legal approach to innovations & new projects (thinking outside the box)
• Advise on conducting business ethically and legally, promoting a culture of integrity through integrity leadership.

Legal Sourcing & Project Management:

• Manage internal and external legal resources for maximum efficiency and expertise to optimize legal spend.
• Develop and maintain preferred law firm relationships to strengthen law firm partnerships.
• Contribute to company-wide priority projects in collaboration with the Group Legal team to drive key initiatives. Act as an active member, working in a collaboritve mode within the Central Europe legal Cluster by sharing local expertise, and

Candidate profile

Experience and Qualifications

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Legal leader who combines strategic vision with a hands-on approach. Commercially, you act as a sparring partner to senior leaders while driving both transformation and day-to-day impact—a strategic solution provider and operational enabler ready to grow into one of Verisure’s next-generation leaders.

• Experience as a qualified lawyer (around 10 years), ideally starting with training at a reputable law firm in the Netherlands.
• In-house experience in a B2C environment is highly valued, especially within a business model similar to ours (fast-paced, subscription-based).
• Dutch University Law degree and a current practicing certificate.
• Broad generalist experience, providing full-spectrum legal support across all aspects of a growing B2C business, including anticipating regulatory changes, consumer trends, and reputational risks—and managing potential crises quickly and effectively.
• Ability to simplify complexity, advising on challenging legal matters in clear, concise terms that non-legal stakeholders can easily understand.
• Strong legal drafting skills, recognized for clarity and precision in all documents.
• Proven track record in dynamic, multinational environments, demonstrating adaptability and collaboration.
• Managerial experience leading a small team is highly preferred, with the ability to develop and empower team members while working seamlessly with resources across the organization.

Competencies

Problem Solving and Analytics – strong at structuring complex problems through quantitatively sound analysis, demonstrating exceptional business and commercial judgment. Ability to synthesize information into actionable conclusions enabling efficient decision making.

Agility and Flexibility - thrives in dynamic environments, adapting swiftly to new information and changing circumstances, and with a solid ability to navigate and operate successfully amidst complexity.

Effectiveness and Impact - self-motivated, proactive in self-development and demonstrates a hands-on approach to deliver by rolling up their sleeves and deep dive into the details

Entrepreneurial - forward thinker who can challenges the status quo while maintaining a strong customer focus. Willing to take a "hands on" approach, while keeping the strategic objectives in mind.

Communication - active listener, with high emotional intelligence and decision-making ability with discernment, who communicates clearly and effectively, projecting credibility, capable of influencing stakeholders across various levels. Also good at ammnaging confidentiality.

Strong fit with our Company DNA

Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people bring a contagious energy and a sense of urgency that is unmistakable. We create a vision and inspire others around that vision with full engagement and focus. We are all-in, and we love what we do.

Committed to Making a Difference: We are courageous, we deliver what we promise through hard work and resilience. We make a difference, through operating with discipline and doing what is needed. We are hands-on, and we aren’t afraid to get into the detail. We deliver results and we execute with excellence.

Always Innovating: Our people make the impossible possible; it’s a continuous state of mind. We are purpose-driven, curious and we challenge the status quo. We believe good ideas travel, we share and reapply. We take smart risks, and we are not afraid to fail. We believe innovation can be big or small.

Winning as a Team: We are determined to become number 1, and to do that we need to listen to one another, collaborate and work together. We play our part, fueled by a winning attitude and a fighting spirit. We celebrate our successes. We play to our strengths and our diversity to deliver even better outcomes, while developing and supporting one another. We believe that together we go further, and that nothing is impossible.

With Trust & Responsibility: Our people take responsibility for the people we protect. We are accountable and reliable. We role model operating with integrity. We trust and empower one another to do the right thing, always. We deliver on our promise through world-class expertise and meticulous know-how. And, we do this with humility while being honoured to play such an important role in society.

Strong fit with Verisure RISE Leadership Model

Role Model Responsible Owner: Acting as a long-term owner, always putting the customer first, thinking and acting big and being accountable and responsible.

Inspire Outstanding Performance: Motivating others for high performance, prioritising and making decisions with an analytical approach and executing with excellence.

Strengthen and grow a high-performance, diverse organisation: Building high-performance and diverse teams, enhancing a learning culture by setting continuously higher standards.

Empower and lead with courage, integrity, and purpose: Inspiring our people, honouring our mission and purpose by leading with confidence, positive energy and genuine empathy and humility.

Diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging at Verisure

At Verisure, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, recognising that diversity of thought and background only makes our teams stronger and more innovative. We reject all forms of discrimination and bias, and we believe in access to opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, age, disability status, race, sexual orientation, or any other status.