Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA
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Senior Legal Counsel enabling sales team to close complex deals. Join AI SaaS startup shaping modern legal strategies with focus on innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Drive commercial contracting
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements including SaaS (cloud and on-prem), DPA, channel, partnership, and vendor contracts
- Partner closely with the sales and revenue teams to drive deals to close
- Deliver creative, risk-based solutions that unlock revenue and protect the business
- Provide pragmatic legal advice on GDPR, international data transfers, CCPA, and other global privacy frameworks
- Advise cross-functional teams on the legal implications of AI in product development and go-to-market strategy
- Help set a scalable, forward-looking approach to AI and privacy governance
- Work with stakeholders across the company to solve legal questions in real-time with a builder mindset
- Improve and maintain scalable legal templates, playbooks, and training materials
- Help design and implement a self-serve legal portal and processes to support a fast-scaling global team
Requirements:
- ⚖️ **Qualified lawyer (Europe-based):** You're a qualified legal professional with 5+ years PQE, ideally with both top-tier law firm and in-house SaaS experience
- 💬 **Strong English fluency:** You can clearly communicate legal nuance in plain terms to global stakeholders
- 📄 **Commercial contracts expert:** You have deep experience in SaaS agreements, open-source licensing, and commercial deal-making
- 🤖 **AI- and privacy-savvy:** You’re confident navigating GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI regulations in a practical, business-centric way
- 🛠️ **Builder mindset:** You thrive in ambiguity, enjoy solving problems without a playbook, and constantly look for ways to improve how legal works
- 🌍 **Cross-functional collaborator:** You're empathetic, business-minded, and able to balance legal risk with product and revenue goals
- 🧠 **Curiosity for tech and automation:** You're excited to experiment with legal tech, AI tools, and scalable internal systems
- 🧩 **Experience with open-source models:** Familiarity with fair-code or open-core licensing approaches
- 🏃 **Startup pace experience:** You’ve worked in fast-scaling environments where priorities shift quickly and your impact is immediate.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
- Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
- Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
- Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
- US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
- Health & wellness 🩺 –
- Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
- US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
- Future planning 💰 –
- Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
- Financial security 🛡️ –
- Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
- US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
- Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
- A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
- Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
- Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
- AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
- Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
- An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
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