Senior Legal Counsel, Tech & AI

AMST Legal; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AMST Legal in Amsterdam seeks a Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing team. You will provide senior‑level commercial and corporate advice for tech and AI focused clients, acting as interim or fractional GC when needed.

You will lead a small team of lawyers, paralegals and interns, shape our external legal model, and expand our network of specialists across data privacy, AI, corporate, tax and employment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years' experience in commercial contracts or corporate law.
• Fluent in Dutch and English; knowledge of Dutch law a plus.
• Based in or around Amsterdam with two fixed office days per week.
• Pragmatic, responsive and a clear communicator with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate complex SaaS, licensing and partner contracts for clients.
• Act as legal or fractional GC for Dutch and international clients.
• Lead and develop the legal team, interns and paralegals.
• Develop AMST Legal processes and AI-enabled workflows.
• Advise on corporate governance and UBO processes.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Corporate law

Dutch law

English fluency

Education

Dutch law degree

Tools

AI in contracts

Job description

AMST Legal is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our team in Amsterdam.

AMST Legal works as the external legal team of scale-ups and international companies in Tech, SaaS and AI, and of a group of Dutch public transport operators. Our clients bring us in as their legal counsel or general counsel: we join their deal calls and management meetings, set up and run their legal and contract processes, handle corporate and compliance matters, and negotiate their most important agreements.

A growing part of this work involves AI, both in the contracts we negotiate and in the way we do our work.

In this role you combine three things: senior legal work for our clients, a leading role in our team, and building out AMST Legal together with the founder.

THE ROLE

• Legal counsel for our clients. You work as interim or fractional legal counsel for our clients and support our fractional general counsel mandates, in the Netherlands and increasingly internationally and in projects.
• Leading the team. You guide and develop our team of legal counsel, paralegal and legal interns. A good opportunity to gain management experience.
• Building AMST Legal. Together with founder Robby Reggers you develop our external legal model further: how we work, how we use AI, and how we connect clients to our network of fractional and interim specialists in data privacy, AI, corporate, tax and employment.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Negotiate commercial contracts independently: SaaS and licence agreements, master services agreements, reseller and partner agreements, procurement and distribution contracts, in Dutch and English.
• Act as legal counsel or general counsel on the client side, in the Netherlands and abroad (Belgium, UK, Nordics, US): deal calls, management meetings and contract processes.
• Advise on corporate matters: signing authority within groups, UBO registrations and corporate housekeeping.
• Improve legal processes for clients and for AMST Legal: templates, clause libraries, playbooks, approval workflows and the practical use of AI in contract work.
• Train client teams in negotiation and contracting.
• Contribute to our work for the Dutch public transport sector, including the legal working group on OVpay (the new OV-chipkaart and paying with a debit or credit card).

AI IN THIS ROLE

AI is part of the daily work at AMST Legal:

• For our clients’ teams: helping in-house legal teams set up AI-supported contract processes.
• In our own work: first drafts, projects work, reviews against playbooks, clause libraries and template maintenance, with a lawyer making the decisions and responsible for the result.
• In our clients’ contracts: AI addenda, EU AI Act requirements, DPAs that cover AI, and vendor terms for AI tools.
• We use Claude, ChatGPT, Legora, Spellbook, IronClad AI and Harvey in our legal work for clients and internally.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• At least 6 years of experience in commercial contracts or corporate law, at a law firm or in-house.
• Experience in negotiating commercial contracts independently (sales, partnerships, procurement), including complex and strategic deals.
• Fluent in Dutch and English, with knowledge of Dutch law and the Dutch market. You do not have to be Dutch. A completed Dutch law degree is a plus.
• Based in or around Amsterdam, given the two office days a week.
• Pragmatic, responsive and a clear communicator with business stakeholders, including at board level.
• Able to work independently and ready to lead a small team. Management experience is a plus, not a requirement.\
• Affinity with legal operations, legal tech and AI in legal work is a plus, as is affinity with SaaS, technology or public transport.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Varied senior legal work for Dutch and international clients, from start-ups/scale-ups to organisations as PVH (Tommy Hilfiger / Calvin Klein), Booking.com, Construsoft, Syndio, Keolis, Qbuzz, EBS, OVpay, Twelv.
• Hybrid working: mostly from home, two fixed office days a week at our office on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, and occasional client visits.
• An employment contract for 32 to 40 hours a week.
• Room to build your own practice and develop the team, including how we use AI and legal tech.
• A small, experienced and international team in which your work is visible and your ideas are taken up quickly.
• A competitive salary and benefits in line with your seniority and experience.

ABOUT AMST LEGAL

AMST Legal is a boutique legal consultancy in Amsterdam, also active in Stockholm, focused on commercial contracts in tech, IT and software, and increasingly on the legal questions that AI raises for how companies contract. We work on a project basis and on fractional and interim general counsel mandates, and where clients need more than contracts we connect them to our network of fractional and interim specialists. AMST Legal was founded in 2021 by Robby Reggers, former lawyer at Hogan Lovells and later Head of Legal and General Counsel.

Questions? Feel free to contact Robby on LinkedIn or by email. We respond to every application within three working days. If you know someone who would be a great fit for this role, feel free to share this vacancy in your network.