Senior Legal Counsel

Who you are

• Law degree, and member in good standing in England and Wales (or if France, CAPA and registration with local bar association)
• Experience with UK or US headquartered companies, and strong English technical drafting skills
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience practicing law both with a law firm and in-house (preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies)
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex software and SaaS contracts with large, sophisticated customers
• Great judgment and bedside manner with customers, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships within the company, with customers, and others
• Working knowledge of intellectual property, AI, data governance, EMEA regulation and privacy matters
• High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness
• Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives
• A passion for team work, collaboration and customer success - at [Employer hidden] we win together

What the job involves

We are looking for an experienced commercial and generalist lawyer to join [Employer hidden]’s global commercial legal team, responsible for helping support [Employer hidden]’s sales growth

In this role, you will be a trusted partner to the EMEA revenue teams

You will also have the opportunity to provide support to our APAC and AMER sales teams as the needs arise

This is a unique opportunity to play a central position as a trusted advisor in EMEA’s GTM successes as we grow and scale

You will draft, structure and negotiate customer contracts with some of the world’s biggest brands in financial services, technology, retail and other industries

You will be called on to assess legal and business risks, make sound decisions, and provide advice on a broad range of issues in areas such as SaaS, AI, privacy, security, alliances, open-source software and intellectual property, and assist with other issues as they come up

You will also partner with the wider [Employer hidden] Legal team to address other corporate, compliance and other legal issues, and help develop scalable, global systems, processes and automations

You will report to [Employer hidden]’s Senior Director, Global Commercial, based in London, UK

• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner to all levels of [Employer hidden]’s EMEA sales team, from VP to Account Executive
• Support our AMER and APAC sales team as needed
• Lead complex cross-border commercial transactions with sophisticated counterparties located across EMEA
• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements
• Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our enterprise software and SaaS offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security, compliance and government contracting
• Partner with Finance, Sales Ops and Deal Ops to support the end-to-end contract negotiation and close process
• Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice, as well as providing training and enablement to our growing Go to Market organization
• Assist in building out AI tools and processes to assist with our growth and scale
• And any additional challenges and tasks to help support [Employer hidden]’s growth