Legal Counsel
RemoteLondon, England, United Kingdom or United Kingdom
London, England, United Kingdom or United KingdomRemoteFull TimeB2B SoftwareSmall
Full TimeSmallB2B Software
Job Summary
Review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements, including MSAs, SLAs, and DPAs, while collaborating with sales to unblock deals and manage high-volume contract workflows. Develop playbooks for common negotiation scenarios and partner with product, engineering, and security teams to advise on data privacy, AI capabilities, and user privacy implications. Conduct legal reviews on product releases to ensure alignment with evolving regulations and support corporate projects like fundraising and international expansion. Operate with significant autonomy to shape how Legal supports Omnea's growth into multiple markets as we scale rapidly.
Required Qualifications
- Qualified solicitor
- Relevant training from a top law firm
- Minimum of 3 years' PQE
- Proven expertise negotiating and closing complex, high-volume SaaS agreements with enterprise clients
- Demonstrable experience with data privacy and international compliance frameworks (GDPR, SCCs, DPAs)
- Ability to advise confidently on complex cross-border data transfer and regulatory issues
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments and manage competing priorities at scale
- Comfort operating with incomplete information and making sound judgment calls under pressure
- Genuine interest in how AI and legal tech can transform how legal works, contract automation, legal ops efficiency, process redesign and willingness to drive adoption and experimentation
- Ability to communicate complex issues clearly to leadership and customers
- Ability to manage large portfolios of concurrent negotiations, multiple stakeholders, and shifting priorities while maintaining excellence and attention to detail
- Willingness to work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices
- Willingness to confirm acceptance of automatic transcribers for interview notes (or opt out in application)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at the level of a Head of Legal or similar senior leadership role
- Experience working with global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons
- Experience scaling a startup from Series A to Series C
- Experience with Tessian or similar cybersecurity tech
- Experience working with ex-founders operators who've grown unicorns
- Experience leading commercial negotiations, advising on product and data protection, supporting corporate transactions, and helping drive compliance and infosec agenda
- Experience developing and maintaining playbooks and fallback positions for common enterprise negotiation scenarios
- Experience partnering with teams like product, engineering, and security to advise on legal and compliance implications of new features, particularly around data handling, AI capabilities, and user privacy
- Experience conducting legal reviews on product releases to ensure alignment with evolving data privacy regulations and contractual commitments to customers
- Experience supporting the product team in developing compliance documentation, feature specifications, and AI policies that can be confidently represented to enterprise prospects
- Experience supporting on corporate and strategic projects, including fundraising and international expansion
- Experience managing high-volume enterprise contract workflows, providing triage to help sales teams prioritise negotiations and unblock deals
- Experience developing and maintaining playbooks and fallback positions for common enterprise negotiation scenarios
- Experience driving adoption and experimentation in legal tech
- Experience in commercial strategy
- Experience in contract automation
- Experience in legal ops efficiency
- Experience in process redesign
- Experience in AI note-taking
- Experience in building something really impressive
- Experience in making the most of a career-defining opportunity
- Experience in the UK or US
- Experience in the Operations Team
- Experience in FullTime employment
- Experience in reinventing how enterprise businesses operate
- Experience in procurement
- Experience in raising $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel
- Experience in an AI-native platform
- Experience in connecting every person, step, and system
- Experience in buying being fast, safe, and efficient
- Experience in one place to request, automated approvals and renewals
- Experience in real-time supplier risk
- Experience in complete spend visibility
- Experience in the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe
- Experience in the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for
- Experience in previously scaling Tessian
- Experience in cybersecurity tech
- Experience in being backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C
- Experience in growing unicorns
- Experience in shipping world-class products
- Experience in executing at the highest levels
- Experience in working alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe
- Experience in making Omnea one of the world's leading tech businesses
- Experience in being commercial, capable and ready to operate with real independence
- Experience in having a broad remit and significant autonomy to shape how Legal supports Omnea's growth into multiple markets
- Experience in being at an incredibly exciting time
- Experience in things starting to really scale rapidly
- Experience in embracing diversity
- Experience in building a product that's loved by everyone
- Experience in having a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives
- Experience in encouraging applicants even if their experience doesn't quite match the full job spec
- Experience in reaching out if you think you could be a good fit for Omnea
- Experience in offering competitive geo-localised benefits
- Experience in checking out the UK Benefits Package
- Experience in checking out the US Benefits Package
- Experience in working Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices
- Experience in getting together-time
- Experience in believing this is a winning move
- Experience in being commercial, ambitious and not pretending otherwise
- Experience in actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity
- Experience in having the hunger to be part of building something really impressive
- Experience in seeing our values
- Experience in seeing our Omnea Future Founder's fund
- Experience in being recognised for both our culture and product
- Experience in just getting started
- Experience in joining us as we grow
- Experience in viewing this posting outside of the Omnea Careers' page
- Experience in this being an auto-generated advertisement
- Experience in lacking the full range of advertised information
- Experience in clicking through to the posting at AshbyHQ
- Experience in viewing additional advertised information on this posting
- Experience in having hard-specified requirements
- Experience in providing deterministic check-box confirmation that you do not meet the hard-specified requirements
- Experience in deterministic automatic rejection criteria being in place
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