Director, Legal

The role

The Director of Legal will lead in-house legal work, reporting to the CFO. You will handle commercial contracts, employment, privacy, open source, corporate governance, and strategic matters.

What you will do

• Review, draft and negotiate customer, partner, reseller and vendor agreements, NDAs and order forms
• Own contract templates and playbooks
• Utilize Ironclad, AI tools, and value added processes to streamline legal operations
• Advise on data privacy and security commitments, including data processing agreements, GDPR and customer security reviews
• Advise on open source licensing, contributor agreements and participation in open source foundations
• Manage outside counsel and the legal budget for specialized matters
• Maintain the library of standard documents, policies and procedures

Required qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school
• Active license to practice in at least one US state
• Ability to register as in-house counsel in Massachusetts
• 7–10 years of commercial legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or both
• Deep expertise drafting and negotiating enterprise software agreements, including SaaS, licensing, data processing and partner agreements
• Comfort working as a team of one
• Sound judgment on legal, commercial and reputational risk
• Strong organization and the ability to manage many matters at once across teams and time zones
• Clear, plain-English communication with engineers, sales leaders and executives

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a software or SaaS company
• Experience with open source licensing
• Experience with privacy and AI regulation, such as GDPR and the EU AI Act
• Exposure to corporate and transactional work, such as financings, equity or M&A
• Experience implementing contract management or AI legal tools

Before you apply

• Solo.io is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without the need for current or future sponsorship

About the company

Solo.io is reimagining infrastructure for cloud and AI. They unite secure, seamless cloud connectivity with AI-ready, agentic infrastructure.