Legal Counsel

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ 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 day-to-day in-house legal work, primarily contracts • Report to the fractional Head of Legal and own an independent legal desk • Draft, review, and negotiate customer agreements, MSAs, DPAs, SaaS terms, NDAs, partner contracts, and vendor contracts • Run deals with Sales and Revenue from first draft through signature, escalating complex issues • Develop and maintain contract templates, fallback positions, and playbooks • Advise on contract interpretation and risk • Review procurement, vendor, and advisor contracts • Establish and operate contract lifecycle management, including repository, naming, version control, renewal, and expiry tracking • Automate routine legal work, including self-serve NDAs, approval routing, and clause libraries • Report on contract volumes, cycle times, and open matters • Assist with entity management, corporate filings, and board documentation • Support equity, compensation, and cap table-related processes with Finance and People • Maintain internal policies and compliance frameworks • Support audit readiness and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions • Provide legal input for customer security and procurement reviews • Support data privacy and data protection work with IT & Compliance and the external DPO • Partner with Security and Engineering on compliance initiatives • Maintain records of processing, DPAs, and the sub-processor list • Handle day-to-day IP, licensing, and open source licensing questions • Partner with Product and Engineering on new features to ensure legal and regulatory alignment

🎯 Requirements

• 3–6 years of post-qualification experience • Qualified to practise law in a relevant jurisdiction • Hands-on commercial contracting experience, ideally in SaaS, tech, or high-growth environments • Experience negotiating commercial agreements independently • Exposure to at least one area beyond contracting: privacy, corporate, IP, or compliance • Working knowledge of GDPR • Experience in a startup, scale-up, or international business environment • Venture capital experience highly preferred • Strong commercial judgment and ability to balance risk and opportunity • Ability to operate in ambiguity and make pragmatic decisions quickly • Hands-on, execution-focused approach and willingness to build from scratch • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills • Highly organized and process-oriented • Fast, responsive, autonomous, proactive, practical, and solutions-driven • Nice to have: experience supporting global distributed teams • Nice to have: familiarity with legal tech, CLMs, and AI-enabled workflows • Nice to have: exposure to life sciences, biotech, or data-driven platforms

🏖️ Benefits

• 23 vacation days per year • 3 additional days provided 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 • Subscription to Oliva Mental Health App • Annual learning and development budget of 1,000 USD • Remote work arrangement