Senior Legal Counsel

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to be a first in-house legal hire and grow into a Head of Legal role.

Requirements

• First-line contract review (NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, Order Forms, security addenda, reseller/distributor terms, procurement redlines) is fully owned and no longer dependent on external counsel for standard commercial matters within 90 days
• A working legal intake and prioritization process — with clear approval thresholds by ARR and risk level — is operational across Sales, Finance, RevOps, and Security within 90 days
• A practical contract playbook with clause library, fallback positions, and hard-no positions is built and adopted by Sales and CS within 6 months, measurably reducing deal cycle friction
• Enterprise deal cycle predictability improves: legal is no longer a bottleneck on standard and mid-complexity enterprise deals by month 6
• Commercial legal infrastructure (templates, self-serve tools, approval matrix, redline standards) is built to Series B/C maturity standards by month 12, with a clear recommendation on whether additional legal ops or contract manager support is needed

Experience we expect you to bring to the role

• 5-8+ years PQE, ideally with a mix of law firm and in-house SaaS experience
• Strong B2B SaaS / enterprise software contracting experience
• Experience negotiating customer paper, not only company paper
• Strong understanding of SaaS MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, security addenda, procurement terms, marketplace / reseller / partner contracts
• Comfortable with US and international (mainly European) customers
• Practical understanding of GDPR, privacy, data processing, security obligations, and subprocessor concepts
• Strong commercial judgment: knows when to push, when to accept, and when to escalate
• Ability to work directly with Sales, Finance, RevOps, Security, Product, and leadership
• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup / scale-up environment without perfect processes
• Experience creating templates, playbooks, approval matrices, and self-serve processes before
• Experience with AWS Marketplace / cloud marketplaces
• Experience with public sector / highly regulated customers
• Experience building legal playbooks from scratch
• Experience implementing CLM or quote-to-contract tooling
• Familiarity operating under US and EU legislation
• Exposure to equity, corporate governance, employment, and fundraising

Values we hold in LocalStack

• Care: we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction.
• Ownership: we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact.
• Openness: we build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback.
• Courage: we dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks to move the needle.
• Excellence: we chase the extraordinary. We chase excellence by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary, constantly raising the bar and striving for greatness in everything we do.

Benefits

• Full-time remote
• Competitive salary
• Annual company retreat
• 2 extra company-wide holidays
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture (community guilds and online company events)