Senior Legal Counsel for Startup Law & Knowledge Management

Overview

We are looking for an experienced, tech-savvy lawyer to help us build a "partner-level" legal knowledge base for early-stage and high-growth companies. Your role will be to review, refine, and validate legal playbooks and templates across

US, UK, and EU jurisdictions.

Your work will directly power an advanced drafting automation tool. You do not need to be a coder or an AI expert. We need your legal brain, commercial judgment, and drafting precision to ensure our automated output meets the highest professional standards for startups and small businesses.

Scope of Work

You will be provided with draft playbooks (logic guides) and legal templates. Your task is to review and enhance them to ensure they are market-standard for startups, practical, and jurisdictionally accurate.
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1. Review & Validation of Key Startup Modules You will refine templates and playbooks across the following core areas:

• Corporate & Formation: Founders' agreements, shareholders' agreements, bylaws/articles of association, and board resolutions.
• Employment & HR: Offer letters, PIIA (Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignments), contractor agreements, and employee handbooks.
• Intellectual Property: IP assignment deeds, trademark licensing, and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
• Commercial & Privacy: SaaS agreements, MSAs, Letter of Intent, Terms of Service, Privacy Policies (GDPR/CCPA compliant), and DPA templates.
• Fundraising (Optional but valued): Reviewing standard investment vehicles like SAFEs (US), ASAs (UK), and Convertible Notes.
  

2. Commercial & Practical Enhancement

• Identify "Deal Blockers", “Market-Standards”, vs. "Nice-to-Haves": Distinguish between critical risks (e.g., missing IP assignment) and commercial trade-offs.
• Localization: Adapt concepts for specific jurisdictions (e.g., "At-will" employment in US vs. unfair dismissal protections in UK/EU; GDPR vs. US state privacy laws).
• Structure for Automation: Format legal rules clearly (e.g., "If User is in UK, include GDPR Data Processing Addendum; If US, include CCPA text").
  

Skills Required

• Qualified Lawyer: 5+ years of experience representing startups or small businesses (in-house or firm).
• Multi-Jurisdictional Expertise: Deep knowledge of US, UK, or EU law is required. Ability to cross-reference rules between these regions (e.g., knowing when a US-style NDA needs a specific deed execution in the UK) is highly valued.
• Tech-Savvy: Comfortable using legal research tools and working with structured data or logic-based rules.
• Startup Pragmatism: Ability to draft simple, founder-friendly documents that protect the business without over-lawyering (e.g., knowing when to use a standard SAFE vs. a complex equity round).

Access to Tools

• Required: You must have access to professional legal research platforms to research current market standards and statutory requirements in target jurisdictions. The deliverable must however be your own original work product.
• Provided: We will provide the base templates, draft playbooks, and the logic structure required for the output.

To Apply please briefly describe your experience with startup clients in the US, UK, or EU, and mention one example of a "standard" legal document you improved or automated in the past.

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