Commercial Counsel

Summary

Join Synthesia, a rapidly growing AI video communications platform company, as their Commercial Counsel! This role focuses on supporting the Go-to-Market organization across Europe, specifically in the DACH region. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial agreements, advising on legal matters, and contributing to process improvements. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in commercial transactions, in-house legal experience within the tech sector, and strong negotiation skills. Synthesia offers a competitive salary, stock options, flexible work arrangements, generous paid time off, parental leave, and a vibrant company culture.

Requirements

• Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney
• 4+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies
• Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector
• Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts
• Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers
• Experience negotiating with customers in regions across EMEA
• Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts
• Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition
• Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors
• Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy
• Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient
• Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments
• Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters
• Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and negotiation positions

Preferred Qualifications

You have an understanding/experience on the use of training data for building AI models

Benefits

• You will be compensated well with a competitive base salary + stock options
• Flexible role based either remotely or hybrid from one of our offices in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich, New York, or Munich
• You get 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• You will join an established company culture with regular socials and company retreats
• You get a paid parental leave and we contribute to your pension plan
• You can participate in a generous referral scheme
• Huge opportunity for a career defining role as we go from a series C scale-up with strong PMF to the next phase of growth