- Company: Local Stack
- Location: United Kingdom
- Salary: $224,000–$325,000/yr
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LocalStack is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel in the United Kingdom to become our first dedicated in-house lawyer and shape commercial legal at a fast-scaling Series A cloud-development company. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity with a clear runway to grow into a Head of Legal position.
About the Role
As Senior Legal Counsel, you will own first-line commercial contracting end to end and build the legal foundation that lets our enterprise sales motion move quickly. You will partner daily with Sales, Finance, RevOps, Security, Product, and leadership, replacing reliance on external counsel for standard deals and turning legal into an enabler rather than a bottleneck.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of reviewing NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, order forms, security addenda, reseller and distributor terms, and procurement redlines within the first 90 days.
- Stand up a legal intake and prioritisation workflow with approval thresholds tied to ARR and risk across commercial teams.
- Create and roll out a contract playbook covering a clause library, fallback positions, and firm no-go terms adopted by Sales and Customer Success.
- Improve enterprise deal predictability so standard and mid-complexity agreements no longer stall in legal review.
- Build self-serve templates, an approval matrix, and redline standards to Series B/C maturity, and advise on future legal-ops hiring needs.
Qualifications
- 5–8+ years PQE blending law-firm and in-house SaaS experience.
- Deep B2B SaaS and enterprise software contracting expertise, including negotiating customer paper as well as company paper.
- Command of SaaS MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, security addenda, procurement terms, and marketplace, reseller, and partner agreements.
- Practical GDPR, data-processing, privacy, and subprocessor knowledge across US and European customers.
- Sharp commercial judgment on when to push, accept, or escalate, plus a track record building playbooks and self-serve processes.
- Ability to negotiate IP, benchmarking, AI/ML, and production-use clauses relevant to developer tooling.
- Preferred: developer tools, cloud, DevOps, or cybersecurity background; AWS Marketplace, public-sector, CLM tooling, and corporate-governance exposure.
About LocalStack
LocalStack delivers a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform that lets engineers build and test cloud applications inside a lightweight Docker sandbox. With 100k+ active users, 290M+ downloads, and customers from SMBs to Fortune 500 firms, our globally distributed team is guided by values of care, ownership, openness, courage, and excellence.
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- Role Senior Legal Counsel
- Employer Local Stack
- Location United Kingdom
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $224,000–$325,000/yr
- Posted June 20, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-21
- Country context United Kingdom
- Overview Full original description on this page (410 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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- Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses.
- Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents.
- Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case.
- Represent clients in court or before government agencies.
- Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases.
- Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations.
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