[Hiring] Tech Legal Counsel @Albatross

Role Description

You own our contracts, end to end: the NDA, pilot and production agreements, renewals, DPAs and GTCs, and R&D agreements. Fast to sign, safe to run.

• We want an owner who likes things simple.
• Not a reviewer who sends comments back, but the person who takes the pen, negotiates with the other side's counsel, and closes.
• Our contracts are short, clear and written for business people.
• Today the CEO negotiates the contracts. He will hand them to you and expect you to close them faster than he does.
• You understand what we build: Data flows in through an API, models learn from it, predictions flow out.
• Our contracts have to say exactly that, in plain words: what we process, what we learn, what we keep, what the customer owns.
• As our models grow, data processing and privacy become the heart of the job.
• You build the legal frameworks the go-to-market team runs on: templates, standard positions, a playbook.
• Own every customer contract end to end: draft, negotiate and close pilots, production agreements, data processing agreements, group agreements and partnerships, with marketplaces in Europe, the US, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
• Build and own the legal frameworks for the go-to-market team: templates, standard and fallback positions, a negotiation playbook, and a register of every commitment and renewal date.
• Own the data and model terms in every agreement: what we process, what we learn, what we keep, in language a customer's product team can read.
• Lead data protection and AI compliance: GDPR, the Swiss FADP, the EU AI Act, US state privacy law and international transfers.
• Run security and compliance reviews with enterprise customers together with Engineering: the vendor due-diligence pack, DPIAs and transfer assessments, SOC 2, customer questionnaires.
• Be the business partner to the CEO, Sales, Customer Success and Engineering: in the deal room, not after it, making sure every contract reflects how the technology actually works and stays short.
• Handle the rest as it comes: corporate and investor documentation for our next round, employment across 10+ countries, intellectual property, and the judgment to know when to bring in outside counsel.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer, min 6 years in: top-tier firm in M&A, venture or technology, then in-house at a technology company, ideally as its first lawyer.
• You have negotiated technology contracts across the table from enterprise counsel and closed them: licensing, API and SaaS agreements, data processing agreements, partnerships.
• You like simple and clear. You write contracts people actually read, you prefer a three-page offer to a thirty-page one, and you cut what does not matter.
• You understand the technology. You can read an API specification and a data flow and turn them into terms: what is processed, what is learned, what is owned, what is promised on performance.
• You know data protection cold: GDPR applied to a data-heavy product, international transfers, and what the EU AI Act will ask of us. Swiss law governs our contracts.
• You own your work. You take the pen, you decide which risks matter, you explain the rest in one sentence to non-lawyers, and you close.
• You know when outside counsel is worth the money and when it is not.
• You have worked cross-border, with US counterparties or US-law contracts, and you draft and negotiate in English at native level.
• You are eligible to work in Europe.
• You will not inherit a legal function. You will be one.

What success looks like

• 3 months:
  • You have read every signed contract and you know every commitment and renewal date. The register is yours.
  • The go-to-market frameworks are in place: templates and playbook updated, and Sales closes standard deals without you.
  • Every live customer is on the new contract stack.
  • Standard deals need no lawyer: NDA, pilot and production agreement go out on your templates and come back signed.
  • Data protection is in-house: the due-diligence pack is current.
• 12 months:
  • The CEO is out of contract negotiations. You lead every open one.
  • Every customer is on one contract stack. No legacy terms, no surprises.
  • Security and privacy reviews pass without a fight: the due-diligence pack answers the questions before customers ask them.

Benefits

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