Junior Head of Legal to own legal, regulatory, and compliance functions including closing major contracts and building standards for private equity and consulting clients. Lead AI governance and data privacy compliance.
Responsibilities
This is Junior's first dedicated legal hire. You'll own the legal, regulatory and compliance function: closing our largest contracts, and building on the standards, playbooks and function that let us sell to major private equity, consulting and financial institutions. You'll work directly with the founders and sit at the centre of commercial, product, security and corporate decisions. It will suit someone who is energised by building a function from scratch.
Lead and negotiate our most important commercial agreements: enterprise MSAs, data-processing and data-licensing terms, and security schedules with global banks, advisors and content providers. Set the standards and playbooks that let the deal team move fast without adding risk
Build Junior’s AI-governance and compliance posture: recording-consent and two-party-consent frameworks across jurisdictions, model-training and data-use policies, and readiness for evolving AI regulation (including the EU AI Act)
Run data privacy end to end (UK GDPR, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA): DPAs, records of processing, sub-processor management, and privacy-by-design partnership with Product and Engineering
What you’ll oversee, with the support of external counsel where necessary
Partner with Security/CISO on customer trust: SOC 2, security questionnaires, DPIAs and the contractual commitments behind them
Build and protect IP: trade-secret and patent strategy across our transcription and knowledge-graph technology, and IP terms in customer and vendor contracts
Manage corporate and financing legal work: governance, board and cap-table support, financing rounds, and day-to-day vendor contracting
Support people operations: employment matters and immigration/visa work as we scale internationally
You're admitted to a US bar. The majority of our commercial contracts are US-governed, and this is a hard requirement
5-8 years of experience spanning private practice and in-house roles, with a strong transactional and commercial foundation. At least 2-4 years in practice
At least 2-4 years in-house experience at an AI, SaaS, or data-intensive technology company. You understand what it means to advise a business that is simultaneously a data processor and a data innovator
Qualification
Admitted to a US bar
Required
Admitted to a US bar
5-8 years of experience spanning private practice and in-house roles
At least 2-4 years in-house experience at an AI, SaaS, or data-intensive technology company
Deep expertise in data privacy including GDPR, UK GDPR, US equivalents, DPA negotiation, and subprocessor obligations
Track record of negotiating complex B2B contracts with large institutional clients
