saas.group - General Counsel & Head of Legal Operations (AI-First)
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Requirements
• The M&A Quarterback: You have 6–10 years of experience (JD/LLM required), likely coming from a top-tier Private Equity or M&A practice. • The M&A Quarterback: • AI-Native: You don't just "use" AI; you prompt-engineer your workflow. You are comfortable building a "no-code" legal stack. • AI-Native: • The "Tax-Literate" Generalist: You aren't a CPA, but you understand the "geometry" of international tax. You can use AI to navigate a tax treaty and know exactly when to pull in a specialist for a final "stress test." • The "Tax-Literate" Generalist: • Operational Mindset: You value deal velocity over long memos. You quantify risk in dollars, not just "could/might" language. • Operational Mindset: • We expect you to own the budget for and implement: • AI Due Diligence: For contract analysis and liability mapping. • AI Due Diligence: • Entity Management: For our 6+ global subsidiaries. • Entity Management: • CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management): To automate SaaS sales and vendor agreements. • CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management): • Tax AI Research: To stay ahead of OECD/Pillar Two and local European tax changes. • Tax AI Research:
Responsibilities
• M&A Execution: Lead the legal lifecycle of ~5 acquisitions/year. Own the SPA, manage local counsel in Europe/NA, and drive deals to close. • M&A Execution: • Strategic Tax Structuring: Work at the intersection of legal and finance. Use AI to model tax-efficient deal structures (Asset vs. Share) and maintain our global transfer pricing framework between Delaware and our European subsidiaries. • Strategic Tax Structuring: • Debt & Capital: Manage our $100M debt facility—handling drawdowns, ensuring covenant compliance, and managing lender relations. • Debt & Capital: • Global People Ops: Oversee compliance for a 400-person workforce (FTEs, Contractors, EOR) across Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Canada, and the US. • Global People Ops: • Equity (SARs): Manage and scale our Stock Appreciation Rights program globally. • Equity (SARs):
Benefits
• Blueprint Power: You are the first hire. You define the tech stack and the strategy. • Blueprint Power: • No Billable Hours: Success is measured by the efficiency of the "Acquisition Engine." • No Billable Hours: • High Leverage: Manage a $100M facility and a global portfolio with the best tools available. • High Leverage: • Incentives: Significant participation in our SAR program. • Incentives: • Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like. • Ultimate flexibility: • Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it. • Freedom and autonomy: • Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable. • Minimum bureaucracy: • Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around. • Small & friendly team: • Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally. • Our network: • Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed. • Flexible time off: • We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
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