Lawyer

Job description

About Smartcat

Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform, addressing the diverse needs in multilingual content for various user personas within global enterprises.

Smartcat is uniquely positioned within the $100+ billion multilingual content industry, which is currently served by tens of thousands of agencies. This results in a highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain, high costs, unacceptable turnaround times, and quality issues. Using highly qualified internal resources to translate or create multilingual content (insourcing) solves the quality problem for enterprises, but if done manually, it can’t solve for scalability, high cost, and slow turnaround.

Smartcat changes the ROI equation in favor of insourcing with its Language AI platform for enterprise end-users. It delivers high-quality, instantaneous AI translations or generates new content in any language by tapping into a customer-specific multilingual content library. The AI output is further refined through human editing by the client’s internal reviewers or experts from the Smartcat’s embedded global marketplace of linguists and content editors. This AI output continuously improves through the editing feedback loop, ensuring consistent and customer-tailored results.

More than 1,000 global companies including ~20% of the Fortune 1,000 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

As a dynamic Series C company, Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY, thanks to the high and quick ROI it delivers to global enterprises. It’s well-funded by notable VCs, and is capital efficient, offering a unique blend of hyper-growth potential with downside protection and the capacity for long-term planning and strategy.

Mission

The ideal candidate is a business-minded commercial lawyer who is focused on execution, prepared to lead company deals primarily with its high-profile enterprise customers throughout the world, and who, therefore, collaborates with our Sales, Customer Success, and other teams within the company. The candidate welcomes the dynamic environment that comes with a growing company. You will work closely with the Head of Legal and other team members to ensure legal compliance and mitigate risks associated with our company’s operations.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead in negotiating and managing the entire lifecycle of high-value MSAs and bespoke, complex agreements with enterprise-level customers.
• Draft, review, revise, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts, including SaaS /technology licensing agreements, terms of service, vendor/supplier agreements, partnership agreements and NDAs under primarily US, English, and EU laws.
• Play an active role in improving and updating company documentation and the legal processes related to contract life management.
• Provide legal support on privacy and data security matters, including reviewing and negotiating data processing agreements, privacy policies, SLAs, and security questionnaires.
• Advise your business colleagues across the organisation on various ad hoc legal questions, including compliance, intellectual property, privacy, litigation, employment and other  legal matters relevant to Smartcat’s industry.
• Collaborate with other teams—Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing, HR, Product and Engineering—on various legal matters..
• Create and provide legal training to business colleagues.

Requirements

• Higher education, a master’s degree in the UK/US/EU would be an advantage.
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in IT legal consulting or in-house at a high-growth technology company with solid experience in drafting and negotiating SaaS/software license agreements, MSAs.
• Ideal candidate would be with strong background in commercial law, so knowledge of English contract law is a must. Good understanding of privacy laws and data security (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA) as well as intellectual property law, basic principles of corporate law, international commercial law norms and cross-border transactions.
• Understanding and familiarity with compliance management and third party risk management is preferred.
• Outstanding negotiation and drafting skills in  English (C-1) with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all levels. Knowledge of Russian language is a plus.
• Experience in working with CLM systems (e.g. Ironclad)  would be an advantage.
• An excellent communicator who is comfortable and confident working with any internal stakeholder or customer, including senior management.
• Entrepreneurial attitude with a proactive approach to problem-solving. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple deals simultaneously.
• Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment requiring extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and persistence to breakthrough.
• Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others.

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Fully remote team

We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.

• Innovating a $100 Billion industry

Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.

• High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations

You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide.

• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together

We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here.

• Smartcat Culture : Where Diversity Meets High Performance At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual’s unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.