Head of Legal

The role

Own the legal function end to end and lead the legal team. Set legal strategy, handle complex corporate matters, and work as a business partner to the rest of the company.

What you will do

• Own the day-to-day legal workload and set priorities across many competing requests.
• Lead, develop and manage the legal team.
• Lead on legal strategy, complex special projects and corporate matters.
• Manage external and local counsel across jurisdictions, keeping cost and quality in check.
• Draft, review and negotiate international technology contracts.
• Run complex enterprise and public sector deals with Sales from first draft to signature.
• Lead corporate governance, entity management and board documentation.
• Support fundraising, investor relations and share option plans.
• Lead data privacy and data protection work with IT & Compliance and the external DPO.
• Improve legal processes and tooling so the business can self-serve where possible.

Required qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of post-qualification experience.
• Qualified to practise law in England & Wales or a US jurisdiction.
• Strong commercial legal background with extensive hands-on technology contracting experience.
• Previous startup or scale-up experience.
• Demonstrable experience leading teams or managing large international projects.
• Fluent business English.
• Based in the UK, the US or Spain, with the right to work.

Nice to have

• Data privacy, security and licensing expertise.
• Corporate governance, fundraising and share option plan experience.
• Employment matters and compensation plans.
• Experience in life sciences, healthtech or regulated industries.

Benefits

• 23 days of vacation per year.
• 3 extra days off given by Seqera in December, plus national and public holidays according to your location.
• Equity.
• Private health insurance.
• Private life insurance.
• Home office allowance valued over 1,000 USD.
• Learning and development budget of 1,000 USD per year.

Before you apply

• Open only to candidates based in the UK, the US or Spain, with the right to work.

About the company

Seqera is the company behind Nextflow and the Seqera Platform, which help scientists and organizations scale complex data workflows. It is a global, remote-friendly team headquartered in Barcelona.