Rogo
Commercial Counsel, EMEA
London. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Commercial Counsel will partner with the Head of Legal to scale the company's contracting function. This person will lead negotiations for MSAs and commercial agreements and implement legal tech infrastructure.
What you will do
- Advise stakeholders on legal issues and concepts.
- Lead end-to-end negotiations of high-value MSAs and other commercial agreements with major banks and financial institutions.
- Own negotiations with data and content providers, including data-licensing and partnership agreements.
- Partner with Sales, Product, Security and Operations teams to structure business-aligned agreements.
- Implement and manage Rogo's commercial contracting infrastructure.
- Operationalize legal tech tools to increase efficiency.
- Design negotiation templates, playbooks and approval workflows.
- Partner with the Head of Legal on high-impact strategic initiatives.
Required qualifications
- Must be licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
- JD from a top law school.
- 3–6 years of legal experience.
- Demonstrated experience owning and closing commercial agreements independently.
- Strong working knowledge of IP licensing, privacy, data-use rights and AI.
- Prior experience implementing and managing legal tech tools.
- Enthusiasm about building scalable systems and processes from scratch.
- Genuine interest in new technologies, software and finance.
- Sound commercial judgment and comfort making decisions in a fast-moving start-up environment.
Nice to have
- Top-tier law firm training in a technology transactions, IP or emerging companies practice group
- In-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, data or AI company
About the company
Rogo aims to transform global finance by empowering professionals at investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI. The company is scaling quickly and defining a new category of enterprise AI.