About the role

  • Senior Legal Counsel shaping AI, data, and SaaS commercial strategy at Intent HQ. Lead contracts, compliance, and ethical innovation across global freemium and AI platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and advise on negotiations for AI and data solution contracts, including SaaS, freemium platform, and cloud licensing agreements, as well as data partnerships and collaboration frameworks
  • Draft, review, and refine commercial and licensing documentation (bespoke and template) for AI and freemium-based cloud products, ensuring alignment between business model flexibility and compliance obligations
  • Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure commercial agility aligns with legal integrity, balancing innovation, monetisation strategies (including free-to-paid conversion), and risk management
  • Support international operations, ensuring legal agreements are consistent with local and cross-border compliance requirements
  • Oversee the company’s overall legal risk management framework, identifying and mitigating risks associated with AI models, data usage, and freemium service models
  • Advise on intellectual property ownership, open-source licensing, and data usage rights for AI models, datasets, and user-generated data in freemium environments
  • Develop scalable legal processes that enable product experimentation while maintaining compliance and commercial clarity
  • Provide expert guidance on data protection and privacy, ensuring compliance with GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and emerging AI and digital consumer protection regulations
  • Contribute to the definition and implementation of ethical AI and freemium data usage policies, ensuring transparency and fairness in how customer data supports model improvement and monetisation
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure that AI systems are developed and deployed responsibly, and that freemium models comply with data privacy and consumer protection standards

Requirements

  • 8+ years PQE as a UK-qualified lawyer (or equivalent common law jurisdiction)
  • Advisory experience on AI model ownership, intellectual property, and open-source licensing
  • Substantial in-house experience within an AI SaaS or data analytics company, ideally supporting freemium or subscription-based commercial models
  • Proven expertise in drafting and negotiating SaaS, AI solution, and freemium platform agreements, including data licensing, model access, and usage-based pricing structures
  • In-depth knowledge of privacy law and data governance, with experience advising on data processing, AI training data use, and customer consent frameworks
  • Demonstrable ability to balance legal rigour with commercial pragmatism, providing solutions-oriented advice in fast-paced, innovation-driven contexts
  • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior leadership, product strategists, and commercial teams
  • A keen interest in AI, data science, and emerging business models such as freemium and usage-based pricing

Benefits

  • Flexible working
  • Free breakfast daily (when in the office)
  • 26 days holiday (increasing with service)
  • Pension scheme
  • Income Protection with Employee Assistance Programme
  • Life Assurance
  • Oliva Mental Health platform and counselling
  • Higher than statutory maternity/paternity benefits
  • Work socials
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Training opportunities

Job title

Senior Legal Counsel

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Location requirements

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