Legal Counsel
Job description
Seqera is hiring a full-time in-house lawyer to take on day-to-day legal work, primarily commercial contracting, and to build legal operations systems as the company grows. The role reports to a fractional Head of Legal and supports corporate governance, data privacy, employment, IP and compliance.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Draft, review and negotiate customer agreements, MSAs, DPAs, SaaS terms, NDAs, partner and vendor contracts
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Partner with Product and Engineering on new features, ensuring legal and regulatory alignment
What we're looking for
- 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; has negotiated these agreements themselves
- 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
- 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
- Comfortable asking for help on matters outside your experience, and quick to escalate
- Builder mentality: enjoys creating structure where none exists
- Business partner first, not just a gatekeeper
- Autonomous and proactive, with strong ownership
- Practical, solutions-driven, and low ego
Nice to have
- Experience in a startup, scale-up, or international business environment with venture capital experience is highly preferred
- Experience supporting global, distributed teams
- Familiarity with legal tech, CLMs, and AI-enabled workflows
- Exposure to life sciences, biotech, or data-driven platforms
Benefits
Time off: 23 days for vacations per year, 3 days given by Seqera in December, and the national/public holidays according to your location
- Equity
- Private health insurance
- Private life insurance
- Home office allowance (valued over 1,000 USD)
- Subscription to Oliva, Mental Health App
- Learning and development budget per year (1,000 USD)
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About Seqera
Seqera is the company behind Nextflow and the Seqera Platform, enabling global enterprises, biotech innovators, academic institutions, and public sector organizations to scale complex data workflows. It is a global, remote-friendly team with headquarters in Barcelona and colleagues across the US, UK, and beyond.
Mission
Empower scientists and organizations to solve humanity's biggest challenges through data-driven science.
Key facts
- Barcelona
- Company behind Nextflow and the Seqera Platform
- Global, remote-friendly team with colleagues across the US, UK, and beyond
What they value
- Learning from and with each other
- Genuinely fun, inclusive, and challenging environment
- Keeping the human touch