Legal Counsel

JR United Kingdom; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading high-growth SaaS business seeks an experienced Legal Counsel to join their team. This role involves providing strategic legal guidance, negotiating deals, and ensuring compliance in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Candidates will benefit from competitive compensation and a supportive culture while having the chance to work on high-value transactions across multiple regions.

Qualifications

• Experienced lawyer with solid SaaS and technology commercial transactional experience.
• Comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders.
• Proactive and able to work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating complex customer deals.
• Advising on complex legal implications for customer requirements.
• Providing legal support for bids and tenders.

Skills

Commercial legal advice

SaaS knowledge

Data privacy

Negotiation

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

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Legal Counsel – High Growth SaaS Business

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced lawyer to join our client, a high-growth SaaS business, as EMEA SaaS Lead.

The role:

Reporting to the Legal Director, you will provide strategic guidance and commercial legal support to the business, including leading complex and high value deals.

This is a varied role offering an exciting opportunity to work with AI and cutting-edge software, as well as hardware-centric solutions.

You will work with a high degree of autonomy, to provide commercially-minded legal advice to the business in winning new opportunities within a highly competitive market, timely and solution-oriented guidance in managing existing customer relationships, and leadership on legal initiatives and compliance matters.

Our client offers hybrid working and is open to considering candidates looking to work full-time or a 4-day week.

Key responsibilities include:

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating complex customer deals (particularly for SaaS) and professional services in the UK, Germany, France and the US
• Advising on complex legal implications of customer requirements and commercial issues
• Providing legal support to the business when responding to bids and tenders
• Advising on specific topical issues and assisting with key business initiatives
• Advising on new launches
• Providing support and advice on data privacy issues

About you:

You will be an experienced business-oriented lawyer, who is comfortable interacting directly with senior stakeholders. You will have solid SaaS, software and technology commercial transactional experience gained either in-house or in private practice.

This role is for a proactive individual who can work autonomously. You will need to be confident in collaborating with different departments across the business and have an interest in working in an international environment. Language skills (particularly French or German) will be advantageous.

Alongside a competitive salary and benefits package, you will have the opportunity to develop and progress within a supportive team working on high-value and business-critical matters.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as part of a collaborative team!