Head of Legal

About the Role

This is the first dedicated legal hire. You'll own the legal, regulatory, and compliance function: closing our largest contracts and building the standards, playbooks, and function that enable us to sell to major private equity, consulting, and financial institutions. You'll work directly with the founders and sit at the center of commercial, product, security, and corporate decisions. This role will suit someone energized by building a function from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Own and negotiate our most important commercial agreements: enterprise MSAs, data-processing and data-licensing terms, and security schedules with global banks, advisors, and content providers.
• Set the standards and playbooks that let the deal team move fast without adding risk.
• Build AI-governance and compliance posture: recording-consent and two-party-consent frameworks across jurisdictions, model-training and data-use policies, and readiness for evolving AI regulation (including the EU AI Act).
• Own data privacy end to end (UK GDPR, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA): DPAs, records of processing, sub-processor management, and privacy-by-design partnership with Product and Engineering.
• Partner with Security/CISO on customer trust: SOC 2, security questionnaires, DPIAs, and the contractual commitments behind them.
• Build and protect IP: trade-secret and patent strategy across our transcription and knowledge-graph technology, and IP terms in customer and vendor contracts.
• Run corporate and financing legal work: governance, board and cap-table support, and commercial/vendor contracting.
• Support people operations: employment matters and immigration/visa work as we scale internationally.
• Act as a business-first advisor, credible with founders, customers' general counsel, CISOs, and procurement, and help make a vendor that banks can adopt without compliance friction.

Qualifications

• You're admitted to a US bar. The majority of our commercial contracts are US-governed, and this is a hard requirement.
• 8+ years of experience spanning private practice and in-house roles, with a strong transactional and commercial foundation.
• Meaningful in-house experience at an AI, SaaS, or data-intensive technology company. You understand what it means to advise a business that is simultaneously a data processor and a data innovator.
• Deep expertise in data privacy: GDPR, UK GDPR, US equivalents, DPA negotiation, and sub-processor obligations. This is a recurring and substantive part of the role.
• A track record of negotiating complex B2B contracts with large institutional buyers, ideally in financial or professional services. You understand how their procurement and legal functions operate and where there is room to move.
• The ability to interpret contract language quickly and translate it into clear, actionable guidance for sales, product, and infosec colleagues. Speed and clarity matter as much as legal rigor.
• Comfortable operating as a sole legal function, with the judgment to know when to handle something internally and when to engage outside counsel.
• Strong commercial instincts. We are looking for a legal partner who helps the business move forward, not one who defaults to caution.
• UK law experience is helpful but not required. Some cross-jurisdictional awareness is important given our UK entity and global European client base.

We're a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 50+ based in London, NYC, and Sydney. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms, and we already power hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually.