legal
Posted 4 weeks agoCommercial Counsel - Europe
at Cognition
London, United KingdomRemote
Requirements
- WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.
- We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE.
- Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals.
- Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.
- If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.
- ABOUT THE ROLE As Commercial Counsel for EMEA, you will sit at the centre of a fast-moving commercial legal function, managing a high-volume workflow of complex negotiations across AI SaaS licensing, marketing, and partnership agreements.
- That means deep fluency in GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA, and the broader compliance landscape across the region, and the confidence to advise clearly under pressure.
- you will: - Lead responsibility for all GTM deals and contract work out of EU and MENA - Manage GDPR compliance and DPAs - Manage local regulatory compliance (DORA, EU AI Act, EU Data Act, etc.) - Manage a high-volume workflow, redlining and negotiating key legal documents, including Licensing, SaaS agreements, and NDAs - Provide crucial legal guidance, balancing risk/reward, with an understanding of local
- requirements and parlaying that to a US-based technical and operational team - Engage with enterprise-level counsel, ensuring swift and fair deal closures - Advise on compliance with local regulations, including GDPR, EU AI Act, and DORA - Work collaboratively across teams to establish and launch new markets in EMEA, including providing regulatory and compliance guidance for operating in new regions Ideally you have: - 7+ years
- Experience with high-velocity tech company preferred - Transnational body of work, including Europe, Middle East, and Asia/South Asia - Must have
Benefits
- experience working from local market for US-based company - Bonus if