Legal Counsel

Requirements

• Experience supporting global customers, cross-border operations or international data flows
• Solid understanding of privacy and data protection frameworks such as GDPR-style regimes
• Background in high-growth technology or SaaS businesses
• If you are excited by the opportunity to grow your impact within a collaborative legal team and help scale a category-defining AI company, we would love to hear from you.
• Benefits ✨
• 📈 ESOP so you can share in the company's growth
• 🤖 AI Productivity Benefit of up to $1200 USD per year for AI tools, courses and learning
• 👶 Parental Leave including 12 weeks paid leave for all eligible parents and an additional 6 weeks for the birthing parent
• 🎉 Milestone Merch to celebrate your work anniversaries
• 🍿 Food, Drinks and Community with breakfasts, snacks, team lunches for most office days and dinners after 6.30pm every day
• 🪩 Quarterly Team Events to build meaningful connections
• 🏓 Social Clubs to connect through shared interests
• 🧠 Sonder EAP providing 24/7 mental health and wellbeing support

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Location 📍: Sydney, AU, Hybrid - 3 days a week in office About Us 🚀 At Relevance AI, we're building the home of the AI workforce. Our mission is simple: empower every team to delegate meaningful work to AI agents that think, act, and collaborate like experts. With Relevance AI, anyone can create and manage intelligent agents that handle workflows, decisions, and collaboration - all within one unified platform. Our technology already powers industry leaders such as Canva, Databricks, Confluent, Autodesk, Lightspeed, Rakuten, Aveva, Qualified, and Activision Blizzard, helping them scale excellence across operations, marketing, and sales. We're backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Peak XV, and King River Capital, and raised our Series B in April 2025 to accelerate growth and push the boundaries of agentic automation. Headquartered in San Francisco and Sydney, we operate on a hybrid model and thrive on curiosity, collaboration, and execution - we move fast, think big, and win together. In 2025, we were proud to be named LinkedIn's #1 Startup in Australia. If you want to define how the world works with AI, join us! The Role 🥳 We are looking for a Legal Counsel to join our growing in-house legal team and support the business as we scale globally. You will partner closely with GTM teams and founders to provide practical, commercially focused legal support that enables deal momentum, manages risk effectively and supports confident decision making. This role suits someone who enjoys working at pace, collaborating across teams and contributing to the continued development of a modern, high-impact legal function in a high-growth AI company. Your Impact 💥 Negotiate and review customer agreements including enterprise SaaS MSAs, DPAs, renewals and upsells Support enterprise deal velocity by providing fast, pragmatic and risk-aware legal guidance Assist with privacy, data protection and security matters across customers and vendors Contribute to the management of sub-processor contracting and compliance requirements Help develop and refine legal playbooks, templates and scalable processes Participate in customer legal discussions where required Support the legal team in reducing reliance on external counsel What We're Looking For 🧠 Approximately 4 to 8 years PQE from a strong commercial law firm and or in-house environment Hands-on experience negotiating enterprise SaaS agreements including MSAs and DPAs Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities Strong commercial judgement and ability to balance speed with appropriate risk management Confident communicator who can influence non-legal stakeholders High ownership mindset and willingness to contribute to team outcomes

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