Legal Research Analyst

About the role

A global education company running live, expert-led business courses is hiring a Legal Research Analyst. As it grows, the volume of legal questions rises across many jurisdictions, from how it contracts with instructors in different countries to how it structures entities and responds to regulators. This is a broad role for someone early in their legal career, covering cross-border commercial and employment questions in the US, UK, EU, South Africa, Australia and across APAC.

Key responsibilities

• Research legal questions across multiple jurisdictions, such as contractor and partner engagement models, entity structuring, and employment and commercial law.
• Draft and maintain contract templates (consulting, teaching assistant, statements of work, amendments, termination agreements) with jurisdiction-specific variants.
• Redline counterparty contracts and flag the terms that matter.
• Build and own the legal register: active matters, deadlines, obligations, renewals and filings.
• Scope and brief external counsel, write the question, assemble the pack, track cost and turnaround, and pressure-test the advice received.
• Support entity formation, restructuring and market-entry diligence.
• Maintain approved communication templates and FAQs for teams working with instructors.
• Build the systems that let a small legal function support a fast-growing company.

Required profile

• Law degree and 2-4 years of practical legal experience (private practice, in-house or legal services).
• Excellent written English; the core output is a one-page memo a non-lawyer can act on immediately.
• Proven legal research skill, including in legal systems outside your own, and the judgment to know when local counsel is needed.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the initiative to turn a half-formed business question into a precise legal one.
• Nice to have: cross-border contractor or freelancer engagement experience, employment or labour law background, admission to the bar in your home jurisdiction, data protection experience (GDPR, POPIA), and experience in a distributed, remote-first company.

Required skills

• Contract drafting and redlining experience.
• Thoughtful, verified use of AI research tools, with every citation checked at source.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and opportunities for career advancement.
• Free access to ELVTR courses and ongoing professional development.
• Remote-first culture with flexible, supportive work environment and collaborative international team.
• Gym membership reimbursement, mental health support and generous paid vacation allowance.

To apply, submit your CV and a short note on a legal question you researched where the answer was not obvious, stating what you found and what you recommended.