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Legal Counsel

Seqera· Finance, Legal & Operations
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RemoteFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

In-house legal role at Seqera, handling day-to-day contracts, legal operations, and cross-functional support as the company scales. You will work under the fractional Head of Legal, own the contract desk from week one, and expand into privacy, employment, IP, and corporate work.

Responsibilities

  • 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 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 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 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
  • Flag novel licensing issues early
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on new features ensuring legal and regulatory alignment

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Experienced in negotiating SaaS/tech agreements independently
  • Exposure to at least one area beyond contracting (privacy, corporate, IP or compliance)
  • Working knowledge of GDPR
  • Experience in startup/scale-up/international business environment; venture capital experience highly preferred

Skills

Required:Commercial contractingPrivacy and data protectionCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Corporate and complianceIP and licensingContract lifecycle management

Benefits

  • Time off: 23 días de vacaciones por año, 3 días en diciembre, y días festivos según ubicación
  • 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)
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Powerful agents. Reproducible workflows.

The platform behind agentic bioinformatics.

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