21 Chief Legal Officer jobs in Saudi Arabia

General Counsel

Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (On-site)

Type:
Full-Time

Reports To:
CEO

At
Manzil
, we are reshaping labor housing and real estate services across Saudi Arabia. To support our fast growth, we are looking for a
General Counsel
to join our leadership team.

As our General Counsel, you will serve as the company's in-house lawyer, overseeing all legal matters and ensuring compliance with regulations while supporting our strategic growth.

What You'll Do

• Provide legal advice to senior management on corporate, commercial, labor, and regulatory matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts with clients, vendors, partners, and employees.
• Ensure compliance with Saudi laws and regulations, including labor law, corporate governance, and commercial law.
• Handle disputes, litigation, and liaise with external law firms when necessary.
• Protect the company's intellectual property and manage licensing agreements.
• Develop and implement internal legal policies and compliance frameworks to mitigate risk.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Law.
• Licensed to practice law in Saudi Arabia (or equivalent relevant jurisdiction).
• 2+ years of legal experience, ideally in both law firms and in-house counsel roles.
• Strong knowledge of Saudi corporate, commercial, and labor law.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English (written and spoken).

Why Join Us?

At Manzil, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Shape the legal and compliance foundation of a fast-growing venture-backed startup.
• Work directly with executive leadership on strategic decisions.
• Be part of a dynamic and innovative team that is redefining workforce housing in the Kingdom.

At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence.

We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world

The Opportunity
As a large, sophisticated professional services organization, everything we do comes down to having the right people with the right skills in the right place. As a Legal Associate, you'll support us in making it happen. The General Counsel Office, the in-house legal function of this large Professional Services Organization is dedicated to the provision of world class in-house legal services to the organization's service lines and regions.

The GCO Associate will report to a MENA Legal Counsel and support the organization's member firms in MENA. The MENA region includes Saudi Arabia (KSA), UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. You'll be part of the region's legal team and is expected to provide services to the business across the region. This role will be based in Riyadh, KSA.

This is a role for a law degree graduate with up to 4 post qualification experience. Experience with domestic and international clients is a plus.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and assist in delivering legal advice and assistance in all practice areas of MENA including corporate and litigation
• Draft and participate in commercial contracts negotiations with clients and service providers and elevate legal risks to management
• Act as trusted advisor and develop relationships with all relevant business stakeholders and team
• Support legal function and team and promote the teamwork & cross-support working between the organization's in-house counsels within MENA and globally
• Advise, draft and negotiating negotiate various legal related aspects of client matters including contracts, master service agreements and tenders
• Assist in reviewing, amending and implementing changes to policies, procedures and standard documentation in light of legal developments

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Unquestioned ethics, integrity and adherence to strict confidentiality
• Pragmatic with strong business acumen
• Demonstrates a positive and enthusiastic attitude
• High level of self-confidence and energy
• High level of intellectual agility, initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness, and patience

To qualify you must have

• Degree in law (graduate, paralegal, associate level) or lawyer qualified to practice law in KSA
• Up to 3 years of post-qualification legal experience, preferably with a multi-national corporation or an international law firm in KSA
• Attention to detail in all aspects
• Excellent command of written and spoken English and Arabic
• Developed commercial awareness with an outcome orientated approach
• Ability to apply legal principles pragmatically and learn how to evaluate and negotiate contracts
• Strong personal communication skills
• Effective planning and organising skills to prioritise key areas of responsibility, tasks and projects
• The ability to keep calm in a crisis and to cope well with conflicting deadlines
• Negotiation skills
• Strong teaming spirit with solid commitment to professionalism and flexibility in approach

Ideally, you will also have

• People management and development experience

What We Look For
We are looking for people who can combine, great listening skills, collaboration, influencing and commercial acumen. Being able thrive in an ever changing, diverse, multi-cultural environment where we expect exceptional quality and show passion for your work will set you up for success.

What Working For EY Offers
We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. We also offer:

• Exposure to some of the greatest colleagues and clients in the industry
• Support, feedback and coaching in a culture that values operational excellence
• Career potential to grow both within the MENA region and globally
• A culture that will encourage you to grow you skills and strengths for your own betterment as well as that or EY

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

To help create the best experience during the recruitment process, please describe any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

EY
| Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence.

We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice as a
Corporate Lawyer
where you will have the chance to work with many high-profile organizations on a range of diverse and interesting legal advisory projects (including carve-outs, reorganizations and joint ventures) that span a multitude of countries and borders as you advise clients on all matters related to corporate transactions, including transformation projects for Government related entities.

Your Key Responsibilities
You will spend your time managing the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding corporate transaction projects, ensuring technical and practical excellence to maximize client service quality. In doing so, you will also build and maintain new and existing client relationships both internally and externally.

As part of a global entity, you can also expect to manage leads and opportunities from other areas of the law practice and the wider EY network and help them do the same.

Moreover, you will be a core contributor to the development of the law practice through initiatives such as delivering internal training, developing precedents, sharing knowhow, participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publications.

Skills And Attributes For Success
We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us: this role is best suited for aspiring law professionals who have worked in established law firms, and who wish to continue developing their career by being part of a growing legal advisory team.

As such, you should have a solid understanding of Saudi's legal systems and regulatory frameworks as well as good technical knowledge of said systems. You will also need to have excellent communication and relationship building capabilities that are combined with strategic and commercial awareness.

Ideally, you'll also have the ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, and an enthusiastic, flexible approach to work and challenges. You should also have great negotiation skills and the ability to adapt and get up to speed quickly with developing laws and regulations thanks to a keen desire to continue to develop your legal skills and knowledge

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2 to 5 years of experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment.
• Good technical knowledge of Saudi corporate law and regulatory environment.
• Strong client relationship-building capabilities combined with strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, self-management, and project management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic, both written and spoken.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Knowledge of corporate transactions.

What We Look For
We are interested in aspiring legal professionals with an enthusiastic, flexible, and positive approach to work and challenges who are interested in building their career within a rapidly developing, fast-paced environment.

What We Offer You
At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

To help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

EY
| Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

Overview

Location: Riyadh

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 17 Oct 2025

Requisition ID:

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice as a Corporate Lawyer where you will have the chance to work with many high-profile organizations on a range of diverse and interesting legal advisory projects (including carve-outs, reorganizations and joint ventures) that span a multitude of countries and borders as you advise clients on all matters related to corporate transactions, including transformation projects for Government related entities.

You will spend your time managing the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding corporate transaction projects, ensuring technical and practical excellence to maximize client service quality. In doing so, you will also build and maintain new and existing client relationships both internally and externally.

As part of a global entity, you can also expect to manage leads and opportunities from other areas of the law practice and the wider EY network and help them do the same.

Moreover, you will be a core contributor to the development of the law practice through initiatives such as delivering internal training, developing precedents, sharing knowhow, participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publications.

We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us: this role is best suited for aspiring law professionals who have worked in established law firms, and who wish to continue developing their career by being part of a growing legal advisory team.

As such, you should have a solid understanding of Saudi’s legal systems and regulatory frameworks as well as good technical knowledge of said systems. You will also need to have excellent communication and relationship building capabilities that are combined with strategic and commercial awareness.

Ideally, you’ll also have the ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, and an enthusiastic, flexible approach to work and challenges. You should also have great negotiation skills and the ability to adapt and get up to speed quickly with developing laws and regulations thanks to a keen desire to continue to develop your legal skills and knowledge

• At least 2 to 5 years of experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment.
• Good technical knowledge of Saudi corporate law and regulatory environment.
• Strong client relationship-building capabilities combined with strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, self-management, and project management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic, both written and spoken.

• Knowledge of corporate transactions.

We are interested in aspiring legal professionals with an enthusiastic, flexible, and positive approach to work and challenges who are interested in building their career within a rapidly developing, fast-paced environment.

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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Location: Riyadh

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 18 Sept 2025

Requisition ID:

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join our EY Law practice as a Corporate Lawyer where you will have the chance to work with many high-profile organizations on a range of diverse and interesting legal advisory projects (including carve-outs, reorganizations and joint ventures) that span a multitude of countries and borders as you advise clients on all matters related to corporate transactions, including transformation projects for Government related entities.

Your key responsibilities

You will spend your time managing the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding corporate transaction projects, ensuring technical and practical excellence to maximize client service quality. In doing so, you will also build and maintain new and existing client relationships both internally and externally.

As part of a global entity, you can also expect to manage leads and opportunities from other areas of the law practice and the wider EY network and help them do the same.

Moreover, you will be a core contributor to the development of the law practice through initiatives such as delivering internal training, developing precedents, sharing knowhow, participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publications.

Skills and attributes for success

We are looking for someone who will create a distinctive and differentiated law brand with us: this role is best suited for aspiring law professionals who have worked in established law firms, and who wish to continue developing their career by being part of a growing legal advisory team.

As such, you should have a solid understanding of Saudi’s legal systems and regulatory frameworks as well as good technical knowledge of said systems. You will also need to have excellent communication and relationship building capabilities that are combined with strategic and commercial awareness.

Ideally, you’ll also have the ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically, and an enthusiastic, flexible approach to work and challenges. You should also have great negotiation skills and the ability to adapt and get up to speed quickly with developing laws and regulations thanks to a keen desire to continue to develop your legal skills and knowledge

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2 to 5 years of experience as a qualified lawyer from a reputable legal practice environment.
• Good technical knowledge of Saudi corporate law and regulatory environment.
• Strong client relationship-building capabilities combined with strategic and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, self-management, and project management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic, both written and spoken.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Knowledge of corporate transactions.

What we look for

We are interested in aspiring legal professionals with an enthusiastic, flexible, and positive approach to work and challenges who are interested in building their career within a rapidly developing, fast-paced environment.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

To help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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• Saudi National.
• Law graduated.
• Coordinate administrative tasks within the Legal Affairs department.
• Liaise with other departments regarding ongoing cases and related requirements.
• Attend hearings and meetings, prepare minutes, and record key notes.
• Monitor and follow up on active cases in line with departmental procedures.
• Organize and archive case files in both physical and electronic formats.
• Participate in the review of contracts and draft official minutes and summaries of meetings.
• Prepare monthly reports on active cases, schedules, updates, and recommended actions.

• Technical Knowledge & Skills
• Analytical Thinking
• Communication
• Integrity & Ethics
• Continuous Learning

Easy Apply

Job Location

Jeddah , Saudi Arabia

Job Role

Legal

Employment Type

Temporary Employee

Career Level

Entry Level

Residence Location

Saudi Arabia

Nationality

Saudi Arabia

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking expressions of interest for PO3 Legal Officers. There are multiple temporary flexible full-time positions available in various locations across the state.

As a Legal Officer with the ODPP, you will play a key role in preparing cases referred for prosecution, contributing to the delivery of justice in Queensland. These roles provide a dynamic and rewarding environment where your expertise will support critical legal processes.

This is a continuous recruitment pool to fill various temporary fixed-term vacancies in various chambers across the state. Applications will remain current for 12 months.

Are you ready to bring your skills to the ODPP and make a difference?

This is a continuous recruitment pool to fill various temporary fixed-term vacancies in various chambers across the state. Applications will remain current for 12 months.

If you are required for an interview, we will contact you directly.

About Us
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is a vital part of Queensland's justice system, representing the State in prosecuting criminal matters across courts such as the High Court of Australia, Supreme Court, District Court, and more. Our work addresses complex and sensitive legal matters, ensuring justice is upheld with professionalism and integrity.

About Your Opportunity
As a Legal Officer, your primary responsibility will be to expertly prepare cases referred to the ODPP for prosecution. Here's why this role is an exceptional opportunity for motivated legal professionals:

• Make a Real Impact: Take charge of preparing prosecution matters, including appeal submissions, with professionalism and efficiency, ensuring timely delivery of justice.
• Engage with Diverse Stakeholders: Build meaningful connections and collaborate effectively with defence counsel, solicitors, police officers, victims, and witnesses.
• Showcase Your Advocacy Skills: Represent the ODPP as an advocate in a variety of settings, including prosecuting or defending appeals in the District Court, handling sentences, bail applications, mentions, and callovers in the Magistrates and higher courts.
• Lead in Critical Hearings: Advocate in committal and summary hearings in the Magistrates Court, with opportunities to develop your expertise depending on the location.
• Support Those in Need: Provide vital liaison with complainants and their families, especially in sensitive and complex cases involving sexual and violent offences.
• Inspire and Lead: Mentor, motivate, and guide legal support staff, fostering a supportive and high-performing workplace culture.
• Drive Positive Change: Play an active role in initiatives that enhance work practices, empowering you to contribute to continuous improvement within the organisation.

This is more than just a job - it's your chance to make a difference, take on rewarding challenges, and grow your legal career in a supportive and impactful environment

We're looking for a dynamic and motivated professional to fill this integral role.

Success in this position means excelling in the following areas:

• Driving Accountability and Results: Leverage your legal expertise to apply legal principles, draft key legal documents, provide sound legal advice, and act as an effective advocate in the Magistrates and/or higher courts.
• Leading with Strategy: Use your strong interpersonal and communication skills to liaise, consult, and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring collaborative and strategic outcomes.
• Building Strong Relationships: Inspire and support your team by supervising, training, and mentoring legal and support staff. Demonstrate empathy and awareness in addressing the needs of victims of crime.
• Embracing Continuous Growth: Commit to upholding the highest professional and ethical standards while continually developing your skills and expertise.

Mandatory Qualifications, Conditions And Requirements
You will be admitted as a Legal Practitioner in a State or Territory of Australia (please indicate date of admission).

If you're ready to take on a rewarding challenge and make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you

For more information, including the key responsibilities and how to apply, please see the role description linked below.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/ /25

Closing Date: Monday, 13 th July, 2026

Responsibilities:

• Drafting and reviewing legal documents;
• Representing cases in court and arbitration institutions (Contractual Disputes, Product Liability and Warranty Claims, Supply Chain Disputes, Cross-Border Legal Issues)
• Collecting money from debtors
• Repossessing equipment from debtors.

Work Experience Requirements

• Over 3 years of legal work experience;
• Rich experience in litigation and arbitration;
• Experience in debt collection & Repossession (Recovery) Equipment.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master degree in Laws, or related field
• Fluency in English and Arabic