Tech Legal Counsel

Overview

Remote in Europe (ideally Zurich or London). Reports to the CEO.

This role owns customer and partner contracting end to end, including data protection and AI compliance terms. You will draft, negotiate, and close agreements that accurately reflect how perception and behavior models work—using clear, business-readable language.

Responsibilities

• Own contracts end to end, including:
  • NDA, pilot and production agreements
  • Renewals
  • Data Processing Agreements (DPAs)
  • General Terms and Conditions (GTCs)
  • R&D agreements
• Draft and negotiate pilots, production agreements, data processing agreements, group agreements, and partnerships with marketplaces across Europe, the US, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
• Build and own go-to-market legal frameworks, including:
  • Templates
  • Standard and fallback positions
  • A negotiation playbook
  • A register of commitments and renewal dates to support Sales closing standard deals without escalation
• Own data and model terms in every agreement, clearly covering:
  • What the organization processes
  • What it learns
  • What it keeps
  • What the customer owns
• Lead data protection and AI compliance, including:
  • GDPR
  • The Swiss FADP
  • The EU AI Act
  • US state privacy law and international transfers
• Run security and compliance reviews with Engineering, including:
  • Vendor due-diligence pack
  • DPIAs and transfer assessments
  • SOC 2
  • Customer questionnaires
• Partner with the CEO, Sales, Customer Success, and Engineering in the deal room to ensure contracts reflect real technology behavior and remain short
• Handle additional legal work as it arises, including:
  • Corporate and investor documentation for the next round
  • Employment across 10+ countries
  • Intellectual property
  • Judgment on when to involve outside counsel

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with at least 6 years of experience:
  • Top-tier firm experience in M&A, venture, or technology
  • Then in-house at a technology company, ideally as its first lawyer
• Experience negotiating technology contracts with enterprise counsel and closing deals, including:
  • Licensing, API, and SaaS agreements
  • Data processing agreements
  • Partnerships
• Strong preference for simple, clear contracts written for business people (e.g., three-page offers over thirty-page ones)
• Technology fluency:
  • Ability to interpret an API specification and data flows and translate them into terms for what is processed, learned, owned, and promised on performance
• Data protection expertise:
  • GDPR in a data-heavy product
  • International transfers
  • Practical understanding of what the EU AI Act requires
  • Swiss law governs contracts
• Proven ownership and decision-making in negotiations, with clear communication to non-lawyers and the ability to determine when outside counsel is cost-effective
• Cross-border experience, including US counterparties or US-law contracts; ability to draft and negotiate in English at native level
• Must be eligible to work in Europe

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working cross-border within US-law contract structures
• Experience with enterprise security and privacy reviews (e.g., vendor due-diligence packs, DPIAs, transfer assessments, SOC 2 questionnaires)

Compensation & Benefits

• Europe-based salary: €100k–€120k gross salary
• Full remote flexibility across Europe

Location

• Remote in Europe (ideally Zurich or London)

Success Metrics

• 3 months:
  • Read every signed contract and maintain a complete register of commitments and renewal dates
  • Go-to-market frameworks in place (templates and playbook updated) with Sales closing standard deals without you
  • Every live customer on the new contract stack
  • Standard deals require no lawyer (NDAs, pilot and production agreements issued from templates and returned signed)
  • Data protection handled in-house with a current due-diligence pack
• 12 months:
  • CEO no longer leads contract negotiations; you lead every open one
  • Every customer on a single contract stack with no legacy terms or surprises
  • Security and privacy reviews pass without conflict, with due-diligence pack answers provided before customer questions
  • Europe-based compensation within the stated range