conveo - Head of Legal

• Own our commercial contracts • Review and negotiate our most important client and reseller agreements: MSAs, DPAs, SLAs and order forms, often against enterprise procurement and legal teams • Own supplier contract reviews • Set fallback positions so deals don't stall, and tell the business clearly when to say no • Build templates and playbooks so sales can close standard deals without you • Build the legal function • Set up intake, templates, playbooks and a central contract repository • Decide what is handled in-house and what goes to external counsel, and keep spend in check • Select, brief and manage outside firms across jurisdictions • Lead and develop our legal associate, and grow the team as the company scales • Own corporate, people and IP matters • Keep corporate housekeeping in order across our entities • Work closely with the CFO and corporate counsel on any debt or equity fundraises. • Partner with our People team on employment and equity matters across the UK, Belgium, the US, and any new market we enter • Protect our IP and work with external counsel to protect our brand • Get the company ready for Series B and due diligence • Own the legal side of data privacy and AI • Have a say in how we build and use AI in our product, advising product and engineering to remain compliant with the changing landscape of AI regulation. • Create and own the data protection and AI terms in our client and supplier contracts, including DPAs and subprocessor terms • Develop and help manage our AI Governance across the company. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • You fully own the legal function • You've completed a deep-dive risk review of our contracts and processes, covering commercial, employment and terms and conditions, so we know what is in place and what is not • You've put a process in place to step into commercial agreements when needed • You have a handle on every open external counsel matter, and you're leading on our longer-standing legal issues • You've set up a working framework with our People team • You're shaping how legal acts as both sword and shield for our commercial team • Depending on when you join, you've started preparing the company for Series B and due diligence • We contract with clients in a fundamentally better way, through a new contracting process • There's a clear legal intake process across HR, corporate, IP and commercial • You have strong working relationships with sales, product, engineering, finance and People, and everyone knows legal is the place to go for any agreement • Our legal associate works independently and is growing as a legal professional • Our external counsel spend is planned and predictable, with outside advice focused where it adds the most value