Legal Counsel - Commercial

About the role

This role offers a rare in-house opportunity to own commercial contracts from initial scoping through execution with significant independence. You will act as a trusted commercial partner to the sales and product teams, driving deals and negotiating outcomes that protect the business while enabling growth. The position requires sound judgment to manage legal risk and escalate appropriately without losing momentum on critical priorities. You will work across a diverse range of matters including customer agreements, supplier terms, and public procurement frameworks. The role provides substantial exposure to AI, data, regulatory, and corporate transactions in a fast-moving environment. You will be expected to use initiative, leverage technology, and take work from first principles to a finished state with minimal oversight. If you thrive on variety and want your work to have direct impact on a scaling business, this is the role for you.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Commercial Contracts: Independently draft, review, and negotiate a broad spectrum of commercial agreements including customer master service agreements, public procurement frameworks, supplier terms and conditions, professional services agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and requests for proposals or bids.
• GTM Partnership: Embed directly with the Go-To-Market sales team, providing commercially focused legal guidance, joining customer calls, leading negotiations, and ensuring that Legal scales effectively to support growth targets.
• Risk Management: Conduct structured legal risk assessments, proactively identify potential issues, and exercise judgment on whether to escalate matters or resolve them autonomously at an appropriate level.
• Prioritisation & Delivery: Balance multiple competing priorities across commercial transactions, cross-functional initiatives, and routine legal work, using AI tools to increase efficiency while consistently meeting deadlines without close supervision.
• Product & Platform: Advise Product and Technology teams on legal implications of product development, feature launches, and platform decisions, translating business requirements into legally sound outcomes.
• AI Legal Landscape & Related Contracting: Review and draft AI-related contractual provisions covering IP ownership, liability allocation, indemnities, and ethical use clauses, while staying current on emerging AI regulation and market norms.
• IP: Contribute to the management of Multiverse's intellectual property portfolio, including trademark protection strategies, licensing provisions, and IP considerations embedded in new product features.
• Project Management, Legal Operations & Cross-Functional Support: Drive end-to-end legal projects from scoping and planning through delivery, coordinating stakeholders, managing timelines, and maintaining clear communication with minimal supervision.
• Legal Operations: Take ownership of internal legal resources such as playbooks, clause libraries, and templates, and help establish agile, technology-enabled processes that leverage AI to streamline the team's ways of working.
• Team Development: Provide hands-on guidance to paralegal staff, support other lawyers on their workstreams, and build capability across the team through coaching and practical support.
• Training & Enablement: Design and deliver training sessions for internal teams on key legal, commercial, and regulatory topics, enhancing overall organizational capability.
• Privacy Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Privacy team to address data protection requirements across products and commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with regulatory obligations.
• Cross-Functional Support: Offer legal support to People, Privacy & Compliance, Finance, and Operations or Delivery teams, moving confidently across practice areas and developing into a multi-specialist lawyer.

Requirements

• Qualification: Qualified solicitor in England & Wales.
• Experience: Approximately 3 to 5 years post-qualification experience, with demonstrated ability to handle complex commercial matters.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of commercial objectives and the ability to translate them into legally robust agreements.
• Drafting Skills: High-quality drafting and negotiation skills for a wide range of commercial contracts and procurement processes.
• Risk Judgment: Sound judgment in identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal and commercial risks.
• Independence: Proven ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• AI and Technology Interest: A keen interest in AI, data, and technology-related legal issues, and a willingness to deepen knowledge in these areas.
• Regulatory Awareness: Familiarity with emerging regulations such as the EU AI Act is advantageous, along with a desire to stay current on evolving standards.
• IP Experience: Previous experience managing or supporting intellectual property portfolios is beneficial.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to partner with commercial, product, and technical teams to enable business outcomes while protecting legal risk.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders.
• Learning Agility: Demonstrated ability to learn quickly across multiple domains, tools, and regulatory frameworks.

Nice to have

• Prior experience working with AI-driven products and services and related contracting approaches.
• Knowledge of public sector procurement and frameworks relevant to selling into UK and EU markets.
• Experience contributing to legal operations, process improvement, or the implementation of legal technology and AI tools.
• Background in delivering training or enablement programs for internal stakeholders on legal or compliance topics.

Practical notes

• Hours: Full-time commitment required.