Principal Legal Associate

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Scissero

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

Legal • Consulting • SaaS

Scissero is a legal-technology company that provides a cloud-based platform to convert contracts and other legal documents into structured, machine-readable data. It uses natural language processing and machine learning to extract clauses, metadata, and obligations, and exposes integrations and APIs so enterprises and legal teams can embed contract intelligence into workflows and automation. The product is offered as a B2B SaaS with developer-friendly interfaces for downstream systems and compliance processes.

📋 Description

• Lead day-to-day legal delivery for an allocated client group • Draft, review, negotiate, and oversee complex NDAs and ancillary transaction documents across private equity, M&A, and financing transactions • Act as senior escalation point for difficult legal, commercial, client, counterparty, or workflow issues • Oversee and review junior, specialist, and senior team members’ work product • Lead, sign off, review, and refine client playbooks, templates, and precedents • Serve as day-to-day account lead and responsible person for allocated clients • Remain available and on call to clients; host check-ins, negotiation calls, and quarterly business reviews • Track customer health and proactively address satisfaction, retention, and renewal risks • Own client complaints and issues through resolution • Support customer outreach and account growth with the Account Manager • Provide coaching, feedback, mentoring, and targeted training • Monitor capacity, workload distribution, SLA performance, and service quality • Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance calibration, and progression discussions • Improve service delivery, legal technology adoption, workflow design, and managed-services scalability • Lead effective use of proprietary AI tools across the client group • Ensure technology-assisted work is reviewed, validated, and aligned with client-approved positions • Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams to improve the platform • Work within an AI-native legal delivery model combining legal expertise with technology

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a qualified U.S. Attorney • 3+ years PQE • Law degree (LLB or equivalent) • Proven experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating core transactional or commercial documents, including confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, and release letters • Demonstrable client-facing experience, including direct ownership of client relationships, client calls, and handling client issues or complaints • Demonstrable experience supervising, mentoring, or indirectly managing legal team members and reviewing their work product • Genuine blend of legal and commercial capability • Excellent written and spoken English • Strong attention to detail and commitment to consistently high-quality work • Preferred: experience with private equity, asset management, hedge fund, or other alternative asset manager clients • Preferred: account management or customer success experience, including tracking account health and running QBRs • Preferred: experience at legal tech, law firms, ALSPs, Big 4 legal teams, or in-house legal departments • Preferred: experience with structured playbooks or standardised legal frameworks • Preferred: experience in a venture-backed technology scale-up environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid and remote working options, with the ability to work from other countries (upon request) • Paid Sick Leave days per year to recover or care for family • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering mental health and wellbeing support • 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning • Discretionary and performance-based annual bonus • Generous paid time off: annual leave + bank holidays • Professional growth and development in a tech-enabled environment • Learn from experienced professionals across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions