Senior Legal Counsel (Interim)

We have an interim position in our team opening up and are looking for a senior legal counsel to join our team!
Are you experienced in commercial software contracts and have a strong commercial mindset and enjoy finding ways to improve and grow a business? Then we need you to join the ride!

What you will do

This is a generalist senior role which involves managing and supporting projects across the full range of subject matters supported by the Legal team.
Main responsibilities include:

• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial agreements, with customers, collaboration partners and service providers.

• Providing legal advice to all teams across the business, summarizing and communicating legal concepts and risks in a way that is meaningful for their day to day activities.

• Designing and managing processes to positively impact the Legal team’s efficiency and effectiveness, ranging from compliance to Legal Operations initiatives.

• Driving legal projects with on-time and on-budget results.

• Implementing and improving legal department tools to streamline new or existing practices.

• Providing training and support to team members sharing your knowledge within the Legal team and in relation to other departments.

• Support in defining strategic quarterly objectives for legal operations improvements, establishing and providing regular reporting on efficiency initiatives.

• Supporting and managing a variety of ad hoc projects within the company and group as they arise.

The team

You will report to the Chief Legal Officer in Stockholm, Sweden, and work together with the Legal colleagues in Stockholm and Boston participating in ongoing collaboration activities where we continuously share updates, our experience and make sure we use the expertise of the team.
We are keen to keep the Legal team accessible and approachable for the entire business, striving to be business partners and enablers of the business rather than bottlenecks. While you will be an expert in the local legislation in which you’re trained, the idea is not that you are a contact person for the European market only, but that we continue to support the group as a team. To enjoy working in our team, it is important to know that we are embracing new solutions in terms of delivering legal advice - we generally deliver legal advice in open Slack channels, some by emoji triggered responses, rather than by classified memos. While the advice needs to be on point, we will spare the legalese to make sure that everyone understands our messaging.

Who you are

To thrive in this role, it is important that you embrace the scale up culture and that you are flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and business needs in a rapidly evolving environment. You must be able to work independently, while also being keen to bring your expertise in collaborating to proactively identifying areas of need and generating action plans and contribute to the legal operations initiatives driven by the Legal team where scalability, efficiency and compliance by design are important pillars of our function. Further, we believe that you have:

• Master of Laws (LLM) degree.

• 8+ years of attorney work experience in commercial contracts, intellectual property matters, business development and technology transactions, at a law firm and with in-house experience with technology companies.

• Extensive commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience.

• Strong communication skills and ability to simplify highly complex problems.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills with a commercial mindset.

• Proven track record of collaborating successfully with cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales, CS, Finance, Information security, People, etc.) delivering business-oriented and actionable legal advice.

• Willing and eager to take on projects involving unfamiliar subject matter.

It is a big bonus if you have

SaaS experience, digital marketing experience and/or privacy/data protection experience, as well as legal operations experience.