Job Description
Algolia is seeking a Corporate Counsel to join its Legal and Compliance Team, focusing on commercial transactions, privacy, and AI. This role will be a key partner to the Sales, Marketing, Security, Product, and Engineering teams, supporting the revenue team, product development, documentation, and vendor procurement agreements. Algolia offers a dynamic opportunity for a tech-savvy lawyer passionate about helping a business scale.
The role involves:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including enterprise SaaS, software licenses, AI services, and data processing agreements.
- Partnering cross-functionally with global teams on commercial matters and vendor agreement review.
- Providing internal AI and privacy guidance to revenue teams.
- Guiding Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Security on issues related to new and existing products and documentation.
- Developing training materials and conducting training sessions for business teams.
- Managing outside counsel for quality and expenses.
Algolia is looking for someone who has:
- Professional level fluency and drafting in English, and ideally one other language (Arabic, German or Spanish).
- Qualifications as an EU or UK lawyer (current or past).
- At least 4 years of experience in the IT or corporate team of a global law firm with training in corporate law; and a big plus for in-house relevant work experience in a growing technology company.
- Strong transactional experience with drafting and negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements, including in regulated sectors (e.g. public, banking).
- Expertise in privacy compliance.
- Excellent legal and business judgment.
- Passion for partnering with Sales and closing deals.
- Strong communication and analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Track record of initiative, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
Algolia offers:
- A flexible workplace model designed to empower all Algolians.
- The autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
- An inclusive and diverse workplace.