Tech Legal Counsel
Job description
Owns all contracts end to end for an AI perception-model company, from NDAs and pilot/production agreements to DPAs, renewals and R&D agreements, and builds the legal frameworks the go-to-market team runs on. Acts as the company's first in-house lawyer and business partner to the CEO, Sales, Customer Success and Engineering.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
- Languages
- English – native
What you'll do
- 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, so Sales closes standard deals without you and escalates the rest.
- 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.
What we're looking for
- 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.
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About Albatross AI
LLMs understand words. We understand behavior.
Albatross builds perception models: AI that understands human behavior and powers product discovery the way a great salesperson does, by observing the customer and adapting in real time. Our models power discovery for 50 million+ shoppers a month. One platform, four primitives: discovery feed, similar items, playlist, contextual search. A customer goes live in seven weeks. The pipeline is global. We are deployed in 12 countries.
Key facts
- Models power discovery for 50 million+ shoppers a month
- Wallapop: +119% homepage engagement, +35% overall engagement
- OfferUp: +84% homepage engagement, +20% overall engagement
- One platform, four primitives: discovery feed, similar items, playlist, contextual search
- A customer goes live in seven weeks
- Deployed in 12 countries
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