
Commercial & IP Legal Lead | Head Office
Commercial & IP Legal Lead | Head Office Our legal team is looking for a Commercial & IP Lead — a lawyer who gets genuinely irritated when a contract takes a week to get signed. Most lawyers read contracts. You will redesign how contracts happen. Our ambition is simple to say and hard to do: a typical agreement signed within about an hour, with the overwhelming majority of the flow running automatically — templates, playbooks, CLM, e-signature, AI — and lawyers touching only the deals that truly deserve a lawyer. You'll lead the Commercial & IP pillar of the legal department, own the contract lifecycle end-to-end across dozens of business teams, and turn "waiting for legal" from an office meme into ancient history. Remote Full-time | Legal Apply job description WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the Commercial & IP pillar of the legal department and manage its team. Own the full contract lifecycle for the group: intake, triage, drafting, negotiation, execution, storage. Standardize the contract base: templates, playbooks, and self-service routes for low-risk agreements. Drive contract-process automation as a flagship project — target state: a typical contract signed within about an hour, with the large majority of volume routed fully automatically and only the most significant agreements handled manually. Define and hold SLAs for contract turnaround; report throughput and bottlenecks. Manage IP portfolio matters: trademarks, domains, licensing and assignment chains. Coordinate handoffs with the Regulatory & Compliance and Corporate & Transactions pillars; escalate material risks to the Head of Legal. Act as the legal-side owner in cross-functional automation work with the AI/development team.