Legal Counsel

The role

You will be the first dedicated legal hire, owning commercial contracts, AI-specific contracting, and practical data protection. You will review, draft, and negotiate agreements and manage external counsel for a cross-border business.

What you will do

• Review, draft and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements
• Own AI-specific contracting issues including data use, training, output ownership, liability and warranties
• Lead legal readiness for enterprise deals and diligence
• Maintain usable templates, negotiation positions and an organised contract archive
• Own practical data-protection work
• Manage external counsel including briefs, budgets and advice
• Support fundraising and corporate transactions
• Help Finance keep records, approvals, filing deadlines and authorities current across US, Polish and German entities
• Improve legal intake, drafting and tracking with approved AI tools and human review

Required qualifications

• Qualified to practise in a US state (e.g. New York or California)
• 6+ years PQE drafting and negotiating commercial technology contracts under both US and European law
• Precise written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Dual qualification (US plus England & Wales or an EU jurisdiction)
• GDPR familiarity
• B2B software or AI experience
• AI/data contracting
• Venture-backed companies and financing rounds
• Multi-entity or cross-border corporate management
• Enterprise procurement and security reviews

Benefits

• Top-of-the-market salary
• Ownership

About the company

Viktor is the AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to thousands of tools, and does the work: reports, dashboards, code, campaigns. Their mission is to give every company an AI employee.