Head of Legal

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🌐 Spain, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Seqera Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🧬 Biotechnology

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Science • Cloud

Seqera Labs is a company specializing in bioinformatics and computational biology, providing solutions for scalable and reproducible scientific workflows. Seqera Labs is the creator of Nextflow, a platform widely used by scientists for developing, executing, and sharing bioinformatics pipelines. The company supports complex data analysis by integrating with cloud computing, containers, and secure identity management systems. Seqera's platform accelerates genomic sequencing and research productivity, aiding institutions like the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and Sweden's National Genomics Infrastructure. With a community-driven approach, Seqera enables collaboration and innovation among over 100,000 scientists worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own the day-to-day legal workload and set priorities • Lead, develop and manage the legal team • Lead legal strategy, complex special projects and corporate matters • Manage external and local counsel across jurisdictions • Draft, review and negotiate international technology contracts • Run complex enterprise and public sector deals with Sales from first draft to signature • Own contract templates, fallback positions and playbooks • Provide pragmatic, risk-weighted legal advice • Lead corporate governance, entity management and board documentation • Support fundraising, investor relations and share option plans • Advise on employment matters and compensation plans with Finance and People • Lead data privacy and data protection work with IT, Compliance and the external DPO • Handle legal input into customer security and procurement reviews • Advise on IP and licensing, including open source licensing • Improve legal processes and tooling to enable self-service • Build trust across the business and position Legal as an enabler • Work with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, IT & Compliance, and People • Report to the Director of Operations and work closely with the General Counsel

🎯 Requirements

• 8–12 years of post-qualification experience • Qualified to practise law in England & Wales or a US jurisdiction • Strong commercial legal background • Extensive hands-on technology contracting experience • Previous startup or scale-up experience • Demonstrable experience leading teams or managing large international projects • Fluent business English • Based in the UK, the US or Spain, with the right to work • Experience with SaaS, licensing, DPAs, NDAs, research collaborations, partner and vendor agreements • Knowledge of GDPR and global data protection frameworks • Commercially pragmatic, with sound judgment and risk-weighted advice • Ability to explain legal issues simply to non-lawyers • Proactive, organised and able to prioritise across many requests • Comfortable with ambiguity, a broad remit and limited resources

🏖️ Benefits

• 23 days of vacation per year • 3 days given by Seqera in December • National/public holidays according to your location • Equity • Private health insurance • Private life insurance • Home office allowance valued over 1,000 USD • Learning and development budget of 1,000 USD per year • Remote-friendly work environment • In-office and WFH environments • Personal development opportunities

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