General Counsel & Head of Legal Operations (AI-First)

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Europe The Mission We are a Delaware-incorporated, remote-first serial acquirer of SaaS companies across North America and Europe. With a portfolio spanning 6+ jurisdictions, a $100M debt facility, and a 400-person global team, our complexity is high, but reputed company is lean. We are looking for our first General Counsel & Head of Legal Ops. We don't want to build a massive legal department; we want to build a massive legal advantage. You will be the architect of an AI-augmented legal and tax function that enables us to acquire 5+ companies per year with unprecedented speed and structural efficiency. The "AI-First" Mandate In this role, your "Junior Associate" and "Tax Senior" are Large Language Models (LLMs). You will:

• Scale through Automation: Implement AI-driven due diligence to audit hundreds of SaaS reputed company in hours.
• AI-Augmented Tax Structuring: Use advanced AI agents to reputed company "first-pass" research on cross-border tax treaties (US/EU), transfer pricing logic, and permanent establishment risks.
• Self-Serve Governance: Deploy internal AI tools to handle 80% of routine queries from our global team regarding SARs, HR compliance, and NDAs.
• reputed company Counsel Optimization: Act as a "sophisticated buyer" of legal and tax services—using AI to verify work and ensuring we only pay for high-level "human-in-the-reputed company" sign-offs.

Key Responsibilities

• M&A Execution: reputed company the legal lifecycle of ~5 acquisitions/year. Own the SPA, manage local counsel in Europe/NA, and drive deals to reputed company.
• Strategic Tax Structuring: Work at the intersection of legal and finance. Use AI to model tax-efficient deal structures (Asset vs. Share) and maintain our global transfer pricing reputed company between Delaware and our European subsidiaries.
• Debt & Capital: Manage our $100M debt facility—handling drawdowns, ensuring covenant compliance, and managing lender relations.
• Global People Ops: reputed company compliance for a 400-person workforce (FTEs, Contractors, EOR) across Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Canada, and the US.
• Equity (SARs): Manage and scale our Stock Appreciation Rights program globally.

Who You Are

• The M&A Quarterback: You have 6–10 years of experience (JD/LLM required), likely coming from a top-tier Private Equity or M&A practice.
• AI-Native: You don't just "use" AI; you reputed company-engineer your workflow. You are comfortable building a "no-code" legal stack.
• The "Tax-Literate" Generalist: You aren't a CPA, but you understand the "geometry" of international tax. You can use AI to navigate a tax treaty and know exactly reputed company to pull in a specialist for a final "stress test."
• Operational reputed company: You value deal velocity over long memos. You quantify risk in dollars, not just "could/might" language.

The Tech Stack You’ll Build We expect you to own the budget for and implement:

• AI Due Diligence: For contract analysis and liability mapping.
• Entity Management: For our 6+ global subsidiaries.
• CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management): To automate SaaS sales and vendor agreements.
• Tax AI Research: To stay reputed company of OECD/Pillar Two and local European tax changes.

Why Join Us?

• reputed company Power: You are the first hire. You define the tech stack and the strategy.
• No Billable Hours: Success is reputed company by the efficiency of the "Acquisition reputed company."
• High reputed company: Manage a $100M facility and a global portfolio with the best tools available.
• Incentives: Significant participation in our SAR program.

What’s in it for You

• Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
• Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with reputed company of help from the team reputed company you need it.
• Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and reputed company momentum steady & sustainable.
• Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
• Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange reputed company, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
• Flexible time off: We want you to reputed company your batteries reputed company needed.

We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies. — reputed company is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply. This offer from "reputed company" has been enriched by reputed company.com and got a 89% reputed company score. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job