Senior Legal Counsel, Product (AI)

Location: Remote across Europe; Europe-based candidates required. Visa sponsorship is available for Germany, while candidates working from other countries must already have the right to work there.

Company

hirify.global is an open workflow orchestration platform for technical teams, combining code flexibility with no-code speed and more than 500 integrations.

What you will do

• Act as legal partner to Product and R&D, supporting roadmap, design, launch reviews, and product terms.
• Build EU AI Act readiness, including risk classification, AI risk assessments, model and provider due diligence, use policies, and customer-facing transparency commitments.
• Advise on wider digital regulation, privacy in product design, open-source, fair-code and open-core licensing, and IP issues involving AI outputs, models, and training data.
• Support customer, community, regulator, sales, partnerships, and revenue teams on product and legal requirements.
• Draft and negotiate SaaS, self-hosted software, partnership, integration, AI model, and cloud provider agreements.
• Scale legal operations through templates, playbooks, training materials, automation, and self-serve tooling.

Requirements

• Qualified legal professional based in Europe with 5+ years of post-qualification experience, including at least 3 years in-house in a SaaS or technology startup or scale-up.
• Fluent English required for communicating legal nuance to global stakeholders.
• Substantial hands-on experience advising technology teams on the EU AI Act and related digital regulation, with the ability to learn new regulation quickly.
• Working knowledge of open-source, fair-code, or open-core licensing for software products.
• Experience supporting engineers, product managers, and sales teams while balancing legal risk with product and revenue goals.
• Builder mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and experience improving legal work without a predefined playbook.
• Experience in a fast-scaling environment with rapidly changing priorities and immediate impact.
• Solid experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements.

Nice to have

• Curiosity about legal technology, AI tools, automation, and scalable internal systems.
• AI or technology law credentials such as AIGP, or equivalent practical experience.
• German communication skills for working with customers and stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work across Europe with regular team off-sites.
• Europe-based employees receive 30 vacation days plus local public holidays, with benefits and pension contributions according to local norms.
• €1,000 or equivalent annual learning budget for courses, books, events, or coaching.
• Equity, open-source support of $100 per month, and health and financial benefits according to the applicable country or employment agreement.
• Ownership, transparency, pragmatism, speed, diversity and inclusion, and regular product hackathons.

Hiring process

• Applicants are encouraged to try hirify.global and share a screenshot of their first workflow.
• If most, but not all, requirements are met, applications are still encouraged.