Corporate Counsel

Summary

Join Algolia's Legal and Compliance Team as a Corporate Counsel specializing in commercial transactions, privacy, and AI. Partner with Sales, Marketing, Security, Product, and Engineering teams to support revenue generation, product development, and vendor agreements. This role involves drafting and negotiating various commercial agreements, providing internal AI and privacy guidance, and developing training materials. You will contribute to shaping commercial contracting processes and policies, impacting product development, and expanding your legal expertise. The ideal candidate is a tech-savvy lawyer with strong transactional experience and expertise in privacy compliance. Algolia offers a flexible workplace strategy, allowing for remote or hybrid work options.

Requirements

• Professional level fluency and drafting in English, and ideally one other language (Arabic, German or Spanish)
• Qualifications as an EU or UK lawyer (current or past)
• At least 4 years of experience in the IT or corporate team of a global law firm with training in corporate law; and a big plus for in-house relevant work experience in a growing technology company
• Strong transactional experience with drafting and negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements, including in regulated sectors (e.g. public, banking)
• Expertise in privacy compliance
• Excellent legal and business judgment
• Passion for partnering with Sales and closing deals
• Strong communication and analytical skills and attention to detail
• Track record of initiative, collaboration and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including enterprise SaaS, software license, AI services, data processing agreements, partnership and alliance, consulting, reseller, referral, non-disclosure and other commercial agreements
• Partner cross-functionally with global teams on a variety of commercial matters and vendor agreement review
• Provide internal AI and privacy guidance and to our revenue teams (e.g. data processing agreements, data transfers)
• Provide guidance to Product, Engineering, Marketing and Security on issues related to new and existing products and documentation
• Partner with the extended support team (including sales operations and security) to support and develop processes for contract and knowledge base management
• Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for business teams
• Manage outside counsel for quality and expenses as needed

Benefits

• Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease
• We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location
• Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when
• While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees