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Constructor

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $25M Series B - Constructor on 2024-06

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce

Constructor is an AI-native, API-first platform that provides product search and discovery solutions optimized for e-commerce. The company offers a commerce reasoning engine and a suite of features — search, autosuggest, personalized recommendations, AI shopping agents, attribute enrichment, retail media, and cross-channel discovery — to help retailers and enterprises deliver personalized discovery experiences across onsite and offsite touchpoints. Constructor positions itself as a specialist in product discovery for both B2C and B2B retail, integrating with existing tech stacks and emphasizing transparent, explainable AI for merchandising and conversion optimization.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS customer agreements (including MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, and AI addendums) for Constructor's EMEA customers • Support deal structuring and commercial strategy for Constructor's enterprise sales pipeline across EMEA markets • Partner with the Head of Legal and COO to build scalable legal processes, policies, and training for a growing international business • Help drive Legal team efficiencies, including developing and maintaining contract templates, playbooks, and self-service resources, and exploring process automation • Serve as a trusted legal advisor on GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, NIS2, EU AI Act, and other applicable European and Middle Eastern privacy laws (including PDPL) • Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design principles related to Constructor's collection and use of data • Manage Constructor's data protection compliance program for EU/UK operations, including ROPA maintenance, DPIAs, and responding to data subject access requests, and advise on cookie and tracking compliance under the ePrivacy Directive • Monitor emerging AI regulatory developments across EU member states and the UK, advise leadership on their impact on Constructor's products and commercial operations, and action compliance efforts • Track and assess legislative and regulatory developments across key European markets that may affect Constructor's products, environmental sustainability practices, data practices, or commercial operations • Support Constructor's EU/UK employment law needs

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Law degree from an accredited institution in the EU, US or UK • Qualified to practice law in at least one EU member state, US or UK • 5-10 years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent on European data protection and commercial technology transactions (preferred qualification) • Experience serving as in-house counsel, ideally at a technology or SaaS company (preferred qualification) • Familiarity with AI products and related legal and contracting issues (preferred qualification) • Strong negotiator who can balance legal risk with commercial objectives in a fast-paced environment (preferred qualification) • Comfortable working autonomously in a remote-first environment (preferred qualification) • Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating enterprise SaaS agreements (preferred qualification) • Ability to exercise sound judgment, prioritize effectively, and manage a diverse workload with shifting priorities (preferred qualification) • Strong working knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR, and the ePrivacy Directive (preferred qualification) • Hands-on experience running privacy programs, including advising on data processing activities, international data transfers, ROPAs, DSARs, incident response planning, and DPIAs (preferred qualification) • CIPP/E certification or equivalent data protection qualification (preferred qualification) • Proficiency in at least one additional European language (preferred qualification) • Experience in a high-growth, startup environment, working on a lean legal team (preferred qualification)

🏖️ Benefits

• 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year • 💰 A competitive compensation package including stock options • 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live • 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office • 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees • 🧑‍🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year • 👪 Parental leave for qualified employees • 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact