Senior Legal Counsel

LocalStack

Senior Legal Counsel at LocalStack building legal infrastructure for a cloud development platform. Responsible for contract review, legal intake processes, and playbook creation.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 $224,000 - $325,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

First-line contract review (NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, Order Forms, security addenda, reseller/distributor terms, procurement redlines) is fully owned and no longer dependent on external counsel for standard commercial matters within 90 days.
A working legal intake and prioritisation process — with clear approval thresholds by ARR and risk level — is operational across Sales, Finance, RevOps, and Security within 90 days.
A practical contract playbook with clause library, fallback positions, and hard-no positions is built and adopted by Sales and CS within 6 months, measurably reducing deal cycle friction.
Enterprise deal cycle predictability improves: legal is no longer a bottleneck on standard and mid-complexity enterprise deals by month 6.
Commercial legal infrastructure (templates, self-serve tools, approval matrix, redline standards) is built to Series B/C maturity standards by month 12, with a clear recommendation on whether additional legal ops or contract manager support is needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8+ years PQE, ideally with a mix of law firm and in-house SaaS experience
Strong B2B SaaS / enterprise software contracting experience.
Experience negotiating customer paper, not only company paper.
Strong understanding of SaaS MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, security addenda, procurement terms, marketplace / reseller / partner contracts.
Comfortable with US and international (mainly European) customers.
Practical understanding of GDPR, privacy, data processing, security obligations, and subprocessor concepts.
Strong commercial judgment: knows when to push, when to accept, and when to escalate.
Ability to work directly with Sales, Finance, RevOps, Security, Product, and leadership.
Comfortable in a fast-moving startup / scale-up environment without perfect processes.
Experience creating templates, playbooks, approval matrices, and self-serve processes before.
IP and product-use restrictions — ability to identify and negotiate clauses covering IP ownership, benchmarking, AI/ML restrictions, non-production vs. production use, and product development restrictions specific to developer tooling.
Developer tools, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, or technical SaaS background. (preferred)
Experience with AWS Marketplace / cloud marketplaces. (preferred)
Experience with public sector / highly regulated customers. (preferred)
Experience building legal playbooks from scratch. (preferred)
Experience implementing CLM or quote-to-contract tooling. (preferred)
Familiarity operating under US and EU legislation. (preferred)
Exposure to equity, corporate governance, employment, and fundraising. (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote
Competitive salary
Annual company retreat
2 extra company-wide holidays
Friendly and inclusive workplace culture (community guilds and online company events)

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract reviewB2B SaaS contractingnegotiating customer paperSaaS MSAsDPAsSLAsGDPRdata processingIP ownershipcontract lifecycle management

Soft Skills

commercial judgmentability to escalatecollaboration with Salescollaboration with Financecollaboration with RevOpscollaboration with Securitycollaboration with Productadaptability in fast-moving environmentsproblem-solvingdecision-making