Head of Legal

The role

You will design and lead the legal function, building upon existing templates and structures. You will manage commercial contracting, advise leadership on risk and strategy, and oversee data privacy and regulatory compliance.

What you will do

• Design the legal function's roadmap and evolution
• Build and lead the legal team and determine hiring needs
• Draft, review, and negotiate customer, vendor, partnership, and NDA agreements
• Refine existing templates and playbooks
• Work with compliance and outside counsel on AI and financial regulations
• Partner with HR on employment matters across multiple entities
• Advise the CEO and leadership team on risk, deal structure, and new markets
• Own the company's baseline data privacy program
• Answer legal questions from sales, HR, and product teams

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience
• Meaningful time in-house
• Direct experience building or significantly scaling a legal function and team
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills
• Working knowledge of, or ability to quickly build expertise in, financial services regulatory considerations relevant to AI-driven decisioning
• Experience supporting employment matters across multiple jurisdictions or entities, or a track record of picking up new jurisdictions quickly
• JD
• Active bar membership in at least one US state
• Entrepreneurial, high-ownership mindset

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI, fintech, financial services, SaaS, or another regulated/high-growth environment

About the company

Taktile enables financial institutions to transform into AI-native organizations using its Agentic Decision Platform. Founded in 2020, the company has offices in New York, Berlin, London, São Paulo, and Iași.