Senior Legal Counsel, Seqera Labs
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The intelligent engine for life sciences
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The intelligent engine for life sciences
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- 6–10+ years of legal experience (in-house tech/SaaS and/or private practice)
- Strong background in commercial contracting, ideally within SaaS, tech, or high-growth environments
- Experience operating as a broad legal generalist across multiple domains (privacy, corporate, employment, IP, compliance)
- Experience in a startup, scale-up, or international business environment with venture capital experience is highly preferred
- Commercially minded with a strong ability to balance risk and opportunity
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic decisions quickly
- Hands-on and execution-focused, with a willingness to build from scratch
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Highly organized with a process-oriented mindset
- Able to zoom in (drafting, execution) and zoom out (strategy, risk, structure)
- Builder mentality: you enjoy creating structure where none exists
- Business partner first, not just a gatekeeper
- Autonomous and proactive, with strong ownership
- Practical, solutions-driven, and low ego
Desirable
- Experience supporting global, distributed teams
- Familiarity with legal tech, CLMs, and AI-enabled workflows
- Exposure to life sciences, biotech, or data-driven platforms
- Admission to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction (or equivalent qualification) is advantageous but not essential; candidates with comparable experience will be considered
What the job involves
- This is a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact role as Seqera’s dedicated in-house legal hire
- You will take ownership of the legal function end-to-end, partnering closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to enable the business to scale globally, commercially, and responsibly
- This role sits at the intersection of commercial strategy, risk management, compliance, and operational excellence
- You won’t just advise - you’ll build, shape, and continue to operationalize how legal works at Seqera
- We’re looking for a hands-on, business-minded legal generalist who is equally comfortable drafting a complex SaaS agreement, advising leadership on risk, or building scalable processes from scratch
- You’ll act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Leadership, Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and People - helping the company move fast while staying protected
- You will own Seqera’s legal function across commercial contracting, corporate governance, data privacy (working closely with Seqera’s IT & Compliance team and any external providers such as external DPO’s), employment, IP, compliance, and legal operations, working functionally as needed
- Own and lead all commercial contracting (customer agreements, MSAs, DPAs, SaaS terms, partnerships, vendor agreements)
- Partner closely with Sales and Revenue teams to support deal execution and negotiations
- Develop and maintain contract templates, fallback positions, and playbooks to accelerate deal cycles
- Provide pragmatic, business-oriented advice on contract interpretation and risk
- Review procurement/vendor/advisor contracts as required
- Build and manage Seqera’s legal operations (contract lifecycle management, documentation, workflows)
- Implement and optimize legal tools, automation, and scalable processes
- Establish and maintain a centralized contract and documentation repository
- Introduce structure, tracking, and reporting across legal matters
- Own corporate governance, entity management, and board-related matters
- Support equity, compensation, and cap table-related processes in collaboration with Finance and People
- Design and maintain internal policies and compliance frameworks
- Support audit readiness and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
- Co-lead data privacy and data protection efforts (GDPR and global frameworks)
- Partner with Security and Engineering on compliance initiatives
- Identify, assess, and proactively manage legal and regulatory risks
- Advise and manage IP, licensing (including open-source licensing) and related matters in the ordinary course of business
- Advise on employment-related matters in collaboration with People (contracts, policies, international workforce considerations)
- Support local compliance considerations
- Partner with Product and Engineering on new features, ensuring legal and regulatory alignment
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Leadership Team on legal, risk, and business decisions
- Balance risk with growth, enabling the business rather than blocking it
- Help define how legal contributes strategically to Seqera’s long-term success
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Commercial DNA sequencing and advances in biometrics have led to an explosion in biological data, which is likely to prove critical in tackling the major problems facing the life sciences. The problem is, the data is so vast in quantity and diverse in type that analysing it and managing it can prove prohibitively expensive. This is where data orchestration and workflow platform Seqera Labs comes into its own.
Seqera is focused predominantly on facilitating big data analysis and management in the life sciences, and it has gotten impressive traction. Its Nextflow product, a distributed data analysis solution, has been used by over 10,000 organizations. This has included teams working on COVID sequencing, and on cancers.
What's so valuable about its offering is that it can be used by people who understand the data without the need for external teams, which has led to it becoming an industry standard. Seqera has been funded generously, and acquired AI bioinformatics company TinyBio, empowering it to play a pivotal role in key life-sciences developments going forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$25.9m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $31.6m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: We believe in empowering our people to expand their knowledge and be their best selves. That’s why you have a budget dedicated to being a life-long learner.
- Make yourself at home: Whether in our office in Barcelona or from home, we want you to make yourself comfortable to reach your full potential.
- Healthcare: We take care of your health and offer comprehensive packages for all our employees, no matter where they are located.
- Take ownership: Use your initiative to work on new ideas and pursue them. Receive support and encouragement in doing so with maximum freedom.
- Team events: We gather have weekly team lunches, bi-weekly social events, annual department offsites and annual company-wide retreats.
- Employee ownership: We value employee ownership and actively support everyone to participate in our overall long-term success.
Company HQ
El Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Paolo Di Tommaso
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Paolo is a Computer Scientist with broad experience as a Software Engineer and Software Architect in life science and healthcare applications.
Evan Floden
(Co-Founder & CEO)Evan is a Biomedicine PhD graduate, with broad experience across Biomedicine and Computing, including work as the Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
Dan Pasette
(CTO)Prior to joining Seqera in 2025, Dan was the CTo at Regrow. He also served as a Technical Advisor at Neurelo and as a Senior Technical Advisor at Kiip.
Colin MacLaughlin
(CFO)Colin is the founder and Fractional CFO at Vulpine Advisory. Previously, he served as the CFO at Thriva and spent over 7 years at Crowdcube in various roles, including VP of FInance & Operations and as CFO.
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