Legal Counsel - Regulatory and Compliance

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Corporate

Legal Counsel specializing in Regulatory and Compliance for an AI-native legal tech company. The role involves providing guidance on data privacy, AI governance, and cross-border compliance, reviewing contracts, conducting risk assessments, and contributing to legal infrastructure. Requires a law degree, 4+ years of experience, and expertise in GDPR, CCPA, and global compliance frameworks. Familiarity with AI and legal tech is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide compliance oversight and guidance to senior stakeholders across operational, commercial and product teams on regulatory matters, risk assessment, and compliance frameworks for new services, processes, contracts, partnerships, and supply chains.
  2. Review and provide compliance input on commercial contracts, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies.
  3. Conduct compliance assessments of product designs, data flows, and operational processes, identifying regulatory risks and developing risk mitigation strategies.
  4. Contribute to building legal infrastructure: templates, playbooks, and internal tooling, including how we use Legora to operationalize legal work and collaborate across teams.
  5. Develop and maintain privacy compliance programs, conduct data protection impact assessments, and ensure ongoing compliance with applicable data protection regulations; and
  6. Establish efficient and scalable compliance frameworks and monitoring systems, developing compliance policies and guidelines that enable teams to proactively integrate regulatory requirements and compliance controls into products and processes.

Skills

Required

  • Law degree (LL.M. or equivalent) from Sweden, the UK, or an EU-jurisdiction, qualified to practice in that country.
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English.
  • 4+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or as in-house counsel.
  • Proven expertise advising on GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border privacy compliance.
  • Familiarity with ISO standards and global compliance frameworks (e.g. AICPA SOC).
  • Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and supporting commercial teams.
  • Strong legal judgment and confidence in making decisions independently
  • Highly organised, responsive, and solutions-oriented
  • Comfortable working across time zones in a global environment, and owning your priorities

Nice to have

  • Additional language skills are meritorious.
  • Keen interest in AI and legal tech, and eager to learn and apply these tools in real-world settings.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI governance
  • data privacy
  • regulatory compliance