Legal Associate , Conveo AI

• This role is only for someone who sees legal as a growth lever, not a gate
• 1-3 years of experience in commercial or technology law (in-house or top-tier firm)
• Deep expertise in SaaS contracts: MSAs, DPAs, order forms, SOWs, NDAs
• Working knowledge of GDPR and international data privacy frameworks
• Experience negotiating with enterprise procurement and legal teams
• High agency: you identify legal risks and solve them before they become blockers
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers
• Comfortable building legal processes from scratch — templates, playbooks, workflows
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English (Dutch or French is a plus)
• Proficiency with contract lifecycle tools (e.g. Juro) and AI tools (e.g. Claude, Harvey, Legora)
• Business-minded: you understand that legal exists to enable growth, not block it
• Pragmatic: you know when something needs to be airtight and when "good enough" is the right call
• Low ego, high standards
• Comfortable pushing for outcomes (without being annoying)
• Can handle ambiguity and still ship consistently
• Thinks in systems and leverage — you build once so the team can use it forever

Desirable

• The current/traditional research methods companies rely on are slow, expensive, and superficial
• Running great research also requires expertise which is a blocker to many companies
• That directly affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them
• You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people
• We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives
• Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies
• We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve
• That means we humbly go the extra mile every time
• We work hard and we have fun
• To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team
• Conveo is scaling fast — Fortune 500 clients, global contracts, high-stake procurement cycles
• You'll interact with some of the world's biggest brands (Unilever, Google, P&G, Orange)
• The opportunity: own the legal and commercial operations that let Conveo scale without friction
• As our Legal Associate, you will spend the majority of your time (~85%) building and running the contract lifecycle and vendor onboarding machine
• The remaining time, you'll support the broader legal needs of the company — from data privacy to corporate matters — giving you real exposure to the full spectrum of in-house legal work at a scaling AI company
• This is not a "review contracts when they land on your desk" role
• This is a high-ownership, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of:
• Deal velocity — remove legal and procurement as a bottleneck so revenue closes faster
• Day-to-day legal support — contribute to the broader legal needs of the company, from privacy to corporate matters
• AI-powered operations — build scalable legal and procurement processes leveraging AI tools — automate, systematize, and move faster than any traditional legal team
• Operational excellence — build repeatable processes from scratch
• Commercial enablement — arm sales with clean templates, fast execution, and clear guidance
• As the first legal hire, you'll contribute to the wider legal function beyond contracts:
• Advise internal teams on standard legal questions and risk management
• Support data privacy compliance (DPAs, GDPR) and corporate legal hygiene as the company scales across jurisdictions
• Coordinate with external counsel on tactical legal questions
• Contribute to new legal challenges as they arise — this is a fast-growing company, so the scope will grow with you
• You're the go-to legal voice internally — pragmatic, fast, and commercial
• You build a machine — powered by AI and automation — that handles:
• MSAs, DPAs, order forms, amendments, and NDAs for enterprise and agency clients
• Redlining and negotiation with client legal teams
• Template maintenance so sales can self-serve on standard deals
• A clean, trackable contract pipeline from first draft to signature
• Your bar: fast execution, minimal back-and-forth, zero ambiguity
• You build and own a strong procurement process — leveraging automation and AI — that handles:
• Vendor registration portals and procurement questionnaires for Fortune 500 clients
• Security reviews and compliance documentation assembly
• End-to-end tracking so no deal stalls in procurement limbo
• Your bar: from verbal commit to vendor-approved in days, not weeks — at scale, without scaling the team
• Legal and procurement are currently the longest stage in the pipeline. You fix that by:
• Standardizing templates so 80% of deals close without custom negotiation
• Building a redlining playbook so the team handles common pushbacks independently
• Creating a fast-track process for smaller deals
• Partnering with sales to pre-empt procurement bottlenecks
• Your goal: legal never holds up a deal again
• You measure yourself on:
• Contracts closed
• Time from verbal commit to signature halved
• Deals unblocked
• Templates standardized
• Vendor onboarding cycles shortened
• Internal teams confident in legal guidance
• You don't wait to be asked. You run the machine
• What success looks like:
• Average time from verbal commit to signed deal is halved
• Sales has clean, self-serve templates for 80%+ of standard deals
• Enterprise clients pass through legal review in days, not months
• A contract pipeline with full visibility: who's negotiating what, where it's stuck, and what's closing
• Internal stakeholders repeatedly say: "Legal and procurement used to be the bottleneck. Now it's the accelerator."
• The legal function scales with the company — no fire drills, no surprises