Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises.
We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one.
Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you're launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale.
Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130% year-over-year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us.
Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.
Mission
The ideal candidate is a business-minded commercial lawyer who is focused on execution, prepared to lead company deals primarily with its high-profile enterprise customers throughout the world, and who, therefore, collaborates with our Sales, Customer Success, and other teams within the company. The candidate welcomes the dynamic environment that comes with a growing company. You will work closely with the Head of Legal and other team members to ensure legal compliance and mitigate risks associated with our company's operations.
Responsibilities
- Take the lead in negotiating and managing the entire lifecycle of high-value MSAs and bespoke, complex agreements with enterprise-level customers.
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts, including SaaS /technology licensing agreements, terms of service, vendor/supplier agreements, partnership agreements and NDAs under primarily US, English, and EU laws.
- Play an active role in improving and updating company documentation and the legal processes related to contract life management.
- Provide legal support on privacy and data security matters, including reviewing and negotiating data processing agreements, privacy policies, SLAs, and security questionnaires.
- Advise your business colleagues across the organisation on various ad hoc legal questions, including compliance, intellectual property, privacy, litigation, employment and other legal matters relevant to Smartcat’s industry.
- Collaborate with other teams—Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing, HR, Product and Engineering—on various legal matters..
- Create and provide legal training to business colleagues.
Requirements
- Higher education, a master's degree in the UK/US/EU would be an advantage.
- Minimum of 4 years of work experience in IT legal consulting or in-house at a high-growth technology company with solid experience in drafting and negotiating SaaS/software license agreements, MSAs.
- Ideal candidate would be with strong background in commercial law, so knowledge of English contract law is a must. Good understanding of privacy laws and data security (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA) as well as intellectual property law, basic principles of corporate law, international commercial law norms and cross-border transactions.
- Understanding and familiarity with compliance management and third party risk management is preferred.
- Outstanding negotiation and drafting skills in English (C-1) with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all levels. Knowledge of Russian language is a plus.
- Experience in working with CLM systems (e.g. Ironclad) would be an advantage.
- An excellent communicator who is comfortable and confident working with any internal stakeholder or customer, including senior management.
- Entrepreneurial attitude with a proactive approach to problem-solving. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple deals simultaneously.
- Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment requiring extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and persistence to breakthrough.
- Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others.
- Fully remote team
We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon. - Innovating a $100 Billion industry
Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost. - High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. - Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here. - Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High Performance
At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.
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