Join Legora as a Regulatory & Compliance Counsel to ensure compliance and manage legal risks in a fast-paced legal tech environment.
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Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Provide compliance oversight and guidance
- Review and provide compliance input on commercial contracts
- Conduct compliance assessments of product designs
- Contribute to building legal infrastructure
- Develop and maintain privacy compliance programs
Must have
- J.D. (or equivalent) with admission to practice in at least one U.S. state
- 4+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or as in-house counsel
- Proven expertise advising on GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border privacy compliance
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ISO standards and global compliance frameworks
- Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements
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Requirements
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Regulatory & Compliance Counsel at Legora, the individual will focus on ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while managing legal risks across various teams. Key skills include expertise in GDPR and CCPA, along with experience in negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and providing compliance guidance on product development. This position is suited for a legal professional with over four years of experience, particularly in a fast-paced environment that values innovation and autonomy. The role emphasizes collaboration with product and commercial teams to drive compliance and operational efficiency.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Legal Counsel - Regulatory and Compliance role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI governance, B2B SaaS, CCPA, Data Privacy, GDPR.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Legora targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Legal Counsel - Regulatory and Compliance role at Legora.
From the original posting
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The role
As Regulatory & Compliance Counsel at Legora, you will be central to our legal technology innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing legal risks, and supporting business operations across all teams. As part of the legal team, you will provide compliance guidance to commercial and product teams on matters ranging from data privacy to AI governance.
This is a high-trust, high-responsibility role with clear business impact, requiring you to operate with autonomy, sound judgment, and precise execution. You will serve as a strategic partner to product development, InfoSec, and commercial teams, leveraging your legal expertise to identify solutions and drive innovation in our mission to transform legal work globally.
What you will be doing:
Provide compliance oversight and guidance to senior stakeholders across operational, commercial and product teams on regulatory matters, risk assessment, and compliance frameworks for new services, processes, contracts, partnerships, and supply chains.
Review and provide compliance input on commercial contracts, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies.
Conduct compliance assessments of product designs, data flows, and operational processes, identifying regulatory risks and developing risk mitigation strategies.
Contribute to building legal infrastructure: templates, playbooks, and internal tooling, including how we use Legora to operationalize legal work and collaborate across teams.
Develop and maintain privacy compliance programs, conduct data protection impact assessments, and ensure ongoing compliance with applicable data protection regulations; and
Establish efficient and scalable compliance frameworks and monitoring systems, developing compliance policies and guidelines that enable teams to proactively integrate regulatory requirements and compliance controls into products and processes.
Who you are:
J.D. (or equivalent) with admission to practice in at least one U.S. state (or another common law jurisdiction).
4+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or as in-house counsel.
Proven expertise advising on GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border privacy compliance.
Familiarity with ISO standards and global compliance frameworks.
Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and supporting commercial teams. You’re an excellent negotiator.
Strong legal judgment and confidence in making decisions independently
Highly organized, responsive, and solutions-oriented
Comfortable working across time zones in a global environment, and owning your priorities
Your focus is on achieving meaningful business outcomes, translating into actionable advice delivered clearly and comprehensively.
You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic entrepreneurial environment and rapidly evolving business setting. You take initiative and are committed to delivering high-quality results.
You are excited about the potential of technology to transform the legal industry. You have a keen interest in AI and legal tech, and you are eager to learn and apply thesetools in real-world settings
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