Tech Legal Counsel

h3Location /h3 pRemote in Europe, ideally Zug or London. Reports to the CEO. /p h3About Albatross /h3 pAlbatross builds perception models: AI that understands human behavior and powers product discovery the way a great salesperson does, by observing the customer and adapting in real time. LLMs understand words. We understand behavior. /p pOur models power discovery for 50 million+ shoppers a month. The results are public. Wallapop: +119% homepage engagement, +35% overall engagement. OfferUp: +84% homepage engagement, +20% overall engagement. /p pOne platform, four primitives: discovery feed, similar items, playlist, contextual search. A customer goes live in seven weeks. The pipeline is global. We are deployed in 12 countries. /p h3About the Job /h3 pYou own our contracts, end to end: the NDA, pilot and production agreements, renewals, DPAs and GTCs, and RD agreements. Fast to sign, safe to run. /p h3We want an owner who likes things simple. /h3 pNot a reviewer who sends comments back, but the person who takes the pen, negotiates with the other side's counsel, and closes. Our contracts are short, clear and written for business people. Keep them that way. Today the CEO negotiates the contracts. He will hand them to you and expect you to close them faster than he does. /p h3You understand what we build. /h3 pData flows in through an API, models learn from it, predictions flow out. Our contracts have to say exactly that, in plain words: what we process, what we learn, what we keep, what the customer owns. As our models grow, data processing and privacy become the heart of the job. /p h3You build the legal frameworks the go-to-market team runs on: templates, standard positions, a playbook. /h3 pOne lawyer, outside counsel when it matters, and a contract stack Sales can run without you. /p ul liOwn every customer contract end to end: draft, negotiate and close pilots, production agreements, data processing agreements, group agreements and partnerships, with marketplaces in Europe, the US, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. /li liBuild and own the legal frameworks for the go-to-market team: templates, standard and fallback positions, a negotiation playbook, and a register of every commitment and renewal date, so Sales closes standard deals without you and escalates the rest. /li liOwn the data and model terms in every agreement: what we process, what we learn, what we keep, in language a customer's product team can read. /li liLead data protection and AI compliance: GDPR, the Swiss FADP, the EU AI Act, US state privacy law and international transfers. /li liRun security and compliance reviews with enterprise customers together with Engineering: the vendor due-diligence pack, DPIAs and transfer assessments, SOC 2, customer questionnaires. /li liBe the business partner to the CEO, Sales, Customer Success and Engineering: in the deal room, not after it, making sure every contract reflects how the technology actually works and stays short. /li liHandle the rest as it comes: corporate and investor documentation for our next round, employment across 10+ countries, intellectual property, and the judgment to know when to bring in outside counsel. /li /ul h3Who you are /h3 ul liQualified lawyer, min 6 years in: top-tier firm in MA, venture or technology, then in-house at a technology company, ideally as its first lawyer. /li liYou have negotiated technology contracts across the table from enterprise counsel and closed them: licensing, API and SaaS agreements, data processing agreements, partnerships. /li liYou like simple and clear. You write contracts people actually read, you prefer a three-page offer to a thirty-page one, and you cut what does not matter. /li liYou understand the technology. You can read an API specification and a data flow and turn them into terms: what is processed, what is learned, what is owned, what is promised on performance. /li liYou know data protection cold: GDPR applied to a data-heavy product, international transfers, and what the EU AI Act will ask of us. Swiss law governs our contracts. /li liYou own your work. You take the pen, you decide which risks matter, you explain the rest in one sentence to non-lawyers, and you close. You know when outside counsel is worth the money and when it is not. /li liYou have worked cross-border, with US counterparties or US-law contracts, and you draft and negotiate in English at native level. /li liYou are eligible to work in Europe. /li /ul h3You will not inherit a legal function. You will be one. /h3 h3What success looks like /h3 p3 months: /p ul liYou have read every signed contract and you know every commitment and renewal date. The register is yours. /li liThe go-to-market frameworks are in place: templates and playbook updated, and Sales closes standard deals without you. /li liEvery live customer is on the new contract stack. /li liStandard deals need no lawyer: NDA, pilot and production agreement go out on your templates and come back signed. /l