Legal Counsel, Seqera Labs

• 3-6 years of post-qualification experience (in-house tech/SaaS and/or private practice)
• Qualified to practise law in a relevant jurisdiction
• Hands-on commercial contracting experience, ideally within SaaS, tech or high-growth environments. You have negotiated these agreements yourself
• Exposure to at least one area beyond contracting (privacy, corporate, IP or compliance), and the appetite to pick up the rest
• Working knowledge of GDPR
• 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
• Fast and responsive. Deals wait on legal more than on any other function, and you know what that costs
• Comfortable asking for help on matters outside your experience, and quick to escalate
• 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

• Seqera is hiring a full-time in-house lawyer. Legal work today is split between a fractional Head of Legal and external firms, and the volume has outgrown that setup. You will take on the day-to-day legal work, contracts above all, and build the systems that keep it running as the company grows
• You will report into the fractional Head of Legal, so you have a senior lawyer to escalate to and learn from while owning your own desk from week one. As the legal function grows, so does the scope of this role
• We're looking for a hands-on qualified lawyer with 3 to 6 years' post-qualification experience who can draft and negotiate a SaaS agreement without close supervision, and who wants to broaden into privacy, employment, IP and corporate work
• You'll work day to day with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, IT & Compliance and People, helping the company move fast while staying protected
• You will run commercial contracting and legal operations end to end, and support the Head of Legal on corporate governance, data privacy (working closely with Seqera's IT & Compliance team and external providers such as our external DPO), employment, IP and compliance
• Commercial contracting:
• Draft, review and negotiate customer agreements, MSAs, DPAs, SaaS terms, NDAs, partner and vendor contracts. This is the bulk of the job
• Run deals with Sales and Revenue from first draft to signature, escalating the harder points
• 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
• Legal operations:
• Set up and run contract lifecycle management: one repository, clear naming, version control, renewal and expiry tracking
• Automate the routine work: self-serve NDAs, approval routing, standard clause libraries
• Report on contract volumes, cycle times and open matters
• Corporate and compliance support:
• Assist with entity management, corporate filings and board documentation
• Support equity, compensation, and cap table-related processes in collaboration with Finance and People
• Help maintain internal policies and compliance frameworks
• Support audit readiness and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Handle the legal input into customer security and procurement reviews
• Data privacy and IP:
• Support data privacy and data protection work (GDPR and global frameworks) alongside IT & Compliance and our external DPO
• Partner with Security and Engineering on compliance initiatives
• Maintain records of processing, DPAs and the sub-processor list
• Handle day-to-day IP and licensing questions, including open source licensing, and flag the novel ones early
• Cross-functional support:
• Partner with Product and Engineering on new features, ensuring legal and regulatory alignment