Head of Legal – General Counsel
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Senior legal hire managing legal functions for a fast-growing SaaS company in the AI space. Collaborating with leadership and building out the legal team as the company expands.
Responsibilities:
- You'll own the legal function day to day — hands-on, pragmatic, and commercially minded.
- Work directly with leadership on a broad mandate: keep deals moving, protect the business, and use good judgment about what to handle in-house versus when to bring in outside counsel.
- Start as the sole senior legal hire and build out the legal function as the company grows.
- Lead commercial contracting — customer agreements, MSAs, DPAs, and vendor, partner, contractor, and consulting agreements — with fast turnaround.
- Manage disputes and demand letters — assess exposure, set strategy, and coordinate with outside counsel and insurers.
- Handle corporate matters — the insurance program (D&O/E&O renewals and claims), corporate governance, entity management, and support for financing or M&A activity as it arises.
- Coordinate employment law matters across the US, UK, Canada, and other jurisdictions with international contractors.
Requirements:
- 8+ years post-qualification experience, with significant time advising US tech/SaaS companies.
- In-house SaaS experience with deep US commercial law fluency alongside familiarity with UK/EU legal frameworks.
- Comfort operating as the sole senior legal hire initially, with the ability to build out an in-house legal team over time.
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills across the full commercial contract stack.
- Experience managing disputes and outside counsel relationships end to end.
- Based in the UK or Canada.
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work options
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