Legal Leader – Technology & Innovation

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Are you passionate about innovation, technology, and law? Do you thrive in dynamic environments and have at least 8 years of experience as a lawyer, in-house legal counsel, or legal consultant? If you’re hands-on, motivated, and ready for a new challenge, we want to hear from you!

Join our Business & Commercial Law team and help us make a real impact on the thriving Belgian tech ecosystem (with a focus on East and West Flanders + the North of Brussels).

As a Legal Leader, you’ll:

• Empower tech start-ups and scale-ups: Provide strategic, pragmatic advice to local and international innovators tackling complex legal challenges.
• Draft and review critical documents: From partnership agreements and terms of use to license agreements, privacy procedures, SLAs, and trademark registrations, your work will drive growth and innovation.
• Shape your focus area: Choose your niche in business and commercial law, including IP/IT law, data protection, AI regulations, medical device compliance, competition law, or broader contract and cooperation frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with clients: Help implement policies and negotiate agreements while finding creative solutions to disputes with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Lead and inspire your team: Mentor a group of 10+ highly motivated heroes, with the goal of making your team even better than yourself—empowering them to thrive and grow.
• Leverage your network: Bring your connections with founders and investors to create opportunities and build lasting partnerships.
• Drive innovation in business development: Stay ahead of trends, market legal services, give workshops, publish thought leadership articles, and contribute to growing our impact in the Belgian tech ecosystem.

We don’t expect you to tick every box right away! What matters most is the right match between you and us. With the right motivation and mindset, we’ll provide the supportive and inspiring environment you need to master this role and exceed your goals.

Ready to make a difference? This is your opportunity to drive innovation, shape the future of tech, and grow your career with a purpose. Let’s make an impact—together!

• You hold a Belgian master’s degree in law (an advanced master’s is a plus) and are ready to apply your expertise in a leadership capacity.
• You possess strong technical legal knowledge with at least 8 years of relevant experience as a lawyer, in-house legal counsel, or legal consultant.
• You’re a fast learner and change agent, ready to drive and lead change in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• You have a startup mentality and excel in the design-build-operate mindset, taking ownership from strategy to execution.
• You thrive as a natural connector, building and maintaining long-term relationships with customers, stakeholders, and colleagues.
• Your leadership and management skills inspire others, and you actively mentor younger colleagues, helping them grow and thrive in their professional journeys.
• You’re hands-on and proactive, with a down-to-earth attitude that embraces challenges and turns them into opportunities.
• You’re strategic and innovative, contributing to the development and execution of forward-thinking strategies that make a real impact.
• You function exceptionally well in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with tax specialists, accountants, strategic advisors, M&A experts, IT consultants, and more.
• You love intrapreneurship, bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to a corporate environment and driving innovation from within.
• You are communicative and assertive, thriving in a creative, dynamic, and fast-growing team.
• You have excellent knowledge of Dutch and English, enabling you to excel in a multicultural and multilingual environment.
• You actively contribute to business development, taking a leading role in researching new regulations and trends, marketing legal services, networking, giving workshops and seminars, and publishing thought leadership articles.

Be the true you! We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energises you.

Never stop growing!Diversity of thought makes us stronger. At Deloitte, we tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact.

We practice what we preach! As a Purpose-led organisation, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles and unifying values.
Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into:

• My Benefits My Choice, a flexible rewards plan tailored to your lifestyle and priorities
• Sustainable transport options offered by Mobility@Deloitte
• Flexible work arrangements for all and initiatives supported by Parents@Deloitte
• Wellbeing tips and activities powered by Energise@Deloitte
• Topped off with other health benefits and insurance opportunities

Empowering our employees with flexible work arrangementsremains essential in today's reality:

• Hybrid workplace:combination of home office and on-site (+10 offices in Belgium or client's premises).
• Part-time employment: all our jobs are open to part-time work under a 90% or 80% regime.