Founding Legal Counsel

Founding Legal Counsel driving regulatory interpretation and enterprise contracting at Deeploy, an AI governance company.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeAmsterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Key responsibilities & impact

Track and interpret the EU AI Act and the regimes around it (GDPR, DORA, sectoral rules, ISO standards, NIST frameworks), and turn obligations into concrete product and process implications.
Form clear, defensible positions where official guidance is thin, working with external partners where it helps.
Feed that interpretation into the roadmap, so our product reflects how the regulation actually lands.
Own enterprise contracting together with sales: master agreements, SaaS terms, SLAs, data processing agreements, partner and referral agreements, and NDAs.
Support deal velocity with large, regulated customers without dropping rigor.
Own our data, privacy and AI policy and the compliance behind it.
Identify, mitigate and document our own cyber, AI and privacy risks.
Lead the annual ISO 42001 and ISO 27001 audits and own the management-system documentation, partnering with security and engineering on the technical controls.
Help shape posts, talks and material aimed at legal and compliance audiences, strengthening our standing with that crowd.
Act as a credible domain voice for prospects' and customers' legal teams, explaining how the regulation works and how Deeploy fits, supporting their decision without becoming their counsel.
Work alongside C-level as in-house counsel on the bigger annual topics: funding, EU programmes and grants, investor and board matters, drawing on outside counsel where it's warranted.

What you’ll need

4-8 years of legal experience, ideally gained in or alongside tech.
Technically literate and comfortable working directly with product and engineering, to shape our product and it supports our customers.
A genuine interest in AI and its risk landscape (privacy, cyber, AI governance), beyond using the tools.
Strong on novel regulation: able to read something ambiguous and form a clear, defensible position, also without every standard yet published.
Comfortable owning several workstreams at once as the first and only lawyer, with C-level actively involved and backing you.
Ready to step into a startup, trading structure and certainty for ownership and pace
A solid legal background; the exact qualification matters less than the capability.
Working proficiency in English, Dutch is a plus.

Comp & perks

A competitive salary
Stock options
A comprehensive benefits package including a pension plan
Flexibility and balance: A flexible, hybrid environment that supports your personal and professional well-being
Growth opportunities: Build a function from scratch and grow with it, in a company set on changing how AI is governed

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Hard Skills & Tools

legal experiencecontract managementdata processing agreementsISO 42001ISO 27001cyber risk managementAI governanceGDPRDORANIST frameworks

Soft Skills

analytical thinkingcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingorganizational skillscollaborationadaptabilityownershipnegotiationstakeholder management