In-House Counsel
Skills
Account ExecutivesData PrivacyData Protection ActHousekeepingNegotiationPrivacy LawReadiness
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in England and Wales or equivalent common law jurisdiction with real commercial contracting experience
- In-house experience at a SaaS business
- Experience in a scaling startup of 50-250 people
- Firm training followed by in-house transition
- Breadth across commercial contracting data protection and product legal
- Ability to find defensible yes decisions and contain risk
- Comfort making decisions and escalating only genuine trade-offs
- Technically adept and quick to pick up new tools
- Clear concise communication that enables other teams
- Highly self-motivated and able to work independently
Nice to have
- Commercially pragmatic
- Hands-on
- Fast paced
- Self-motivated
- Independent
- Technically adept
Day to day
- Own commercial contracting end to end, including MSAs, DPAs, and customer red lines, while turning around high volumes of reviews at pace.
- Set and publish a legal SLA for sales, triage intake, and build playbooks, fallback positions, and templates that help AEs self-serve.
- Partner with Product and Engineering on regulated product features, lead privacy and compliance work, and keep the business audit ready.