Legal Counsel

About Us
At Legora, we're on a mission to transform the way lawyers work. Our AI-native platform lets legal professionals enhance their productivity and automate complex workflows. We collaborate closely with our clients and iterate at a market-leading pace. In a year, we have gone from an early MVP to tools used daily by thousands of lawyers, and are now scaling rapidly. We are here to win together with our team and clients, and carry the belief that life is too short not to accomplish something truly special.

You are joining an early-stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit, trusted by global leaders like Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin and Bird & Bird. Backed by over $110M in funding from top investors including ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator. And a world-class team from Google, Klarna, Spotify, Slack, and top tier consulting and law firms with infinite room to grow professionally.

The role

As Regulatory & Compliance Counsel at Legora, you will be central to our legal technology innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing legal risks, and supporting business operations across all teams. As part of the legal team, you will provide compliance guidance to commercial and product teams on matters ranging from data privacy to AI governance.

This is a high-trust, high-responsibility role with clear business impact, requiring you to

operate with autonomy, sound judgment, and precise execution. You will serve as a strategic partner to product development, InfoSec, and commercial teams, leveraging your legal expertise to identify solutions and drive innovation in our mission to transform legal work globally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide compliance oversight and guidance to senior stakeholders across operational, commercial and product teams on regulatory matters, risk assessment, and compliance frameworks for new services, processes, contracts, partnerships, and supply chains.
• Review and provide compliance input on commercial contracts,ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies.
• Conduct compliance assessments of product designs, data flows, and operational processes, identifying regulatory risks and developing risk mitigation strategies.
• Contribute to building legal infrastructure: templates, playbooks, and internal tooling, including how we use Legora to operationalize legal work and collaborate across teams.
• Develop and maintain privacy compliance programs, conduct data protection impact assessments, and ensure ongoing compliance with applicable data protection regulations; and
• Establish efficient and scalable compliance frameworks and monitoring systems, developing compliance policies and guidelines that enable teams to proactively integrate regulatory requirements and compliance controls into products and processes.

Who You Are

• Law degree (LL.M. or equivalent) from Sweden, the UK, or an EU-jurisdiction, qualified to practice in that country.
• Proficiency in both spoken and written Swedish and English. Additional language skills are meritorious.
• 3-6 years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or as an in-house legal counsel.
• Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and supporting commercial teams. You're an excellent negotiator.
• Proven expertise advising on GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border privacy compliance.
• Familiarity with ISO standards and global compliance frameworks (e.g. AICPA SOC).
• Strong legal judgment and confidence in making decisions independently
• Highly organised, responsive, and solutions-oriented
• Comfortable working across time zones in a global environment, and owning your priorities
• Your focus is on achieving meaningful business outcomes, translating into actionable advice delivered clearly and comprehensively.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic entrepreneurial environment and rapidly evolving business setting. You take initiative and are committed to delivering high-quality results.
• You are excited about the potential of technology to transform the legal industry. You have a keen interest in AI and legal tech, and you are eager to learn and apply thesetools in real-world settings

What's in it for you

• Career development opportunities in a rapidly evolving entrepreneurial environment.
• Direct collaboration with senior leadership and the opportunity to directly impact company growth and strategy.
• A collaborative, high-energy team environment where your ideas and contributions are valued and implemented.
• Competitive salary complemented with a highly competitive options program.
• Centrally located offices in Stockholm designed as a space for you to do your life's work.

We founded Legora to empower lawyers with the tools they truly deserve. We're not building for the way law is practiced today - we're reimagining how it will be practiced tomorrow.