Senior Legal Counsel, Product
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n8nAI software
Location: Berlin Office; Secondary Locations: Bosnia, Romania, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Hungary, Moldova, Kosovo, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Austria, Switzerland, Montenegro, London Office, Albania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ireland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Sweden. Workplace: RemoteFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent English; German communication with customers and stakeholders is a nice-to-have.
- Experience
- 5+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE), with at least 3 of those years within an in-house SaaS or technology environment with a start up or scale up company.
Requirements
- Be a qualified legal professional with 5+ years' post-qualification experience.
- Have at least 3 years of in-house experience in a SaaS or technology environment at a startup or scale-up.
- Be Europe-based.
- Be fluent in English.
- Have substantial hands-on experience advising technology teams on regulatory matters such as the EU AI Act and related digital regulation.
- Demonstrate a track record of getting up to speed on new regulation quickly.
- Have working knowledge of open-source, fair-code, or open-core licensing as applied to software products.
- Have experience supporting engineers, product managers, and sales teams while balancing legal risk with product and revenue goals.
- Have experience working in a fast-scaling environment with shifting priorities.
- Have solid working experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements.
- Be comfortable solving problems with and without a playbook and improving legal processes.
- German communication with customers and stakeholders is a nice-to-have.
- AI or technology law credentials such as AIGP, or equivalent practical experience, are a nice-to-have.
- Curiosity about legal technology, AI tools, and scalable internal systems is a nice-to-have.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product and R&D teams on AI regulation readiness, including EU AI Act risk classification, risk assessments, due diligence, use policies, and transparency commitments.
- Advise on wider digital regulation, including horizon scanning, product readiness, and compliance roadmaps.
- Join roadmap, design, and launch reviews, advising on product terms and translating legal requirements into product requirements.
- Advise on open-source, fair-code, and open-core licensing, and IP questions involving AI-generated outputs, machine learning models, and training data.
- Partner with the Legal team on privacy questions arising in product design.
- Support Product and Engineering with customer, community, and regulator questions about product legal requirements.
- Review, draft, and negotiate SaaS and self-hosted technology agreements, partnership and integration agreements, and AI model and cloud provider contracts.
- Partner with sales, partnerships, and revenue teams on complex enterprise deals involving AI or product requirements.
- Develop risk-based solutions for deals and feed deal learnings into product decisions.
- Maintain legal templates, playbooks, and training materials, and collaborate on self-serve legal processes and tooling.
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