Lawyer

Summary

Join Smartcat, a dynamic Series C company, as a business-minded commercial lawyer to lead company deals with high-profile enterprise customers globally. Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, and other teams to ensure legal compliance and mitigate risks. Negotiate and manage the lifecycle of high-value agreements, draft various commercial contracts, improve company documentation, and provide legal support on privacy and data security. Advise colleagues on legal matters, create legal training, and contribute to a fast-paced, innovative environment. Smartcat offers a fully remote team, high-impact role, and the opportunity to scale up significantly.

Requirements

• Higher education, a master's degree in the UK/US/EU would be an advantage
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in IT legal consulting or in-house at a high-growth technology company with solid experience in drafting and negotiating SaaS/software license agreements, MSAs
• Ideal candidate would be with strong background in commercial law, so knowledge of English contract law is a must
• Good understanding of privacy laws and data security (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA) as well as intellectual property law, basic principles of corporate law, international commercial law norms and cross-border transactions
• Outstanding negotiation and drafting skills in English (C-1) with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all levels
• An excellent communicator who is comfortable and confident working with any internal stakeholder or customer, including senior management
• Entrepreneurial attitude with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple deals simultaneously
• Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment requiring extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and persistence to breakthrough
• Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others

Responsibilities

• Take the lead in negotiating and managing the entire lifecycle of high-value MSAs and bespoke, complex agreements with enterprise-level customers
• Draft, review, revise, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts, including SaaS /technology licensing agreements, terms of service, vendor/supplier agreements, partnership agreements and NDAs under primarily US, English, and EU laws
• Play an active role in improving and updating company documentation and the legal processes related to contract life management
• Provide legal support on privacy and data security matters, including reviewing and negotiating data processing agreements, privacy policies, SLAs, and security questionnaires
• Advise your business colleagues across the organisation on various ad hoc legal questions, including compliance, intellectual property, privacy, litigation, employment and other legal matters relevant to Smartcat’s industry
• Collaborate with other teams—Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing, HR, Product and Engineering—on various legal matters
• Create and provide legal training to business colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working with CLM systems (e.g. Ironclad) would be an advantage
• Knowledge of Russian language is a plus
• Understanding and familiarity with compliance management and third party risk management is preferred

Benefits

• Fully remote team
• We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries