Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal CounselRemoteUnited KingdomUnited StatesShare this job DescriptionWe are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We’ve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.LocalStack has a large and active developer community with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectorsLocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland 🇨🇭, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria 🇦🇹 and remote team members from 🇺🇸the US, 🇫🇷FR, 🇬🇧UK, 🇨🇦CA, 🇪🇸ES, and many more countries.👉Check our Notion Candidate Handbook and our GitHub!This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to be a first in-house legal hire and grow into a Head of Legal role.Requirements✅ What you will be working on/responsible forFirst-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 prioritisation 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 role5–8+ years PQE, ideally with a mix of law firm and in-house SaaS experienceStrong 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.IP and product-use restrictions — ability to identify and negotiate clauses covering IP ownership, benchmarking, AI/ML restrictions, non-production vs. production use, and product development restrictions specific to developer tooling.Developer tools, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, or technical SaaS background. (preferred)Experience with AWS Marketplace / cloud marketplaces. (preferred)Experience with public sector / highly regulated customers. (preferred)Experience building legal playbooks from scratch. (preferred)Experience implementing CLM or quote-to-contract tooling. (preferred)Familiarity operating under US and EU legislation....