Fractional Legal Counsel

Legatics

Fractional Legal Counsel providing legal guidance on SaaS agreements and data protection in LegalTech. Leading negotiations, compliance, and governance in a dynamic environment.

Posted 6/15/2026part-time🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**The role**
Acting as the legal representative for the business, owning legal risk and knowing when to bring in external specialist counsel
Leading negotiation and execution of customer SaaS agreements within sales cycle timeframes and needs, and advising the commercial team on contract strategy
Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts across departments (NDAs, partnership, marketing and supplier agreements)
Advising on privacy and data protection, including policies and the functioning of our product, in a complex international environment
Owning the GDPR compliance program: DPIAs, LIAs, transfer risk assessments, ROPA oversight and records of law and regulation
Supporting the Exec with corporate governance, compliance and cap table or option scheme matters
Acting as Product Counsel on new ways of processing personal data, AI features and similar developments
Managing any disputes with customers or suppliers, and providing legal input on data incidents
Supporting fundraising when it arises

Requirements

What you’ll need

**What we need from you**
- A qualified lawyer currently admitted to practice in the UK, with substantial post-qualification experience (we'd expect around 6+ years PQE given the seniority, autonomy and sole-counsel nature of the role)
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating technology or SaaS contracts
- A solid grounding in data protection and privacy, ideally in a complex or international setting
- The judgment and confidence to act as a sole in-house lawyer: owning risk, setting direction and knowing the limits of your own expertise
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate legal concepts for non-legal colleagues
- A pragmatic, commercial mindset that presents solutions rather than problems
- A willingness to be a generalist across data security, disputes, employment, compliance, IP and corporate governance
- A right to work in the UK (we are not able to support visa sponsorship at this stage)

Benefits

Comp & perks

**What we offer you**
- Competitive salary (depending on experience)
- 25 days holiday per year (plus public holidays).
- Early Finish Fridays - on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime!
- Pension with NEST.
- Personal Learning & Development budget.
- Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
- Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
- Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups.
- A warm, genuinely collaborative culture and an awesome team; and
- Regular socials.

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract negotiationGDPR compliancedata protectionprivacy policiesSaaS agreementscommercial contractsdispute managementcorporate governanceDPIAsLIAs

Soft Skills

communication skillsjudgmentconfidencepragmatic mindsetproblem-solvingleadershipautonomycollaborationadaptabilitygeneralist approach

Certifications

qualified lawyeradmitted to practice in the UK