ВеликобританияOLIX
Senior Counsel, Commercial
6 дн. назад
ВеликобританияSeniorOnsite
commercial contractingrisk managementcontract negotiationip licensingconfidentiality provisionslegal draftinglegal analysisai tooling
Senior Counsel (Commercial) role at OLIX, leading commercial legal contracting and risk decisions in a fast-scaling deep-tech company with relocation support to the UK.
About the company
- OLIX is a rapidly scaling, ambitious deep-tech company based in Europe operating in technology and hardware sectors.
Responsibilities
- Own commercial legal work end to end, working with the CLO on strategy, team, deal flow, tooling, and standards.
- Personally lead negotiations on OLIX's largest and most complex commercial deals, including customer agreements with hyperscalers, manufacturing and supply chain agreements, NREs, JDAs, technology licences, and strategic partnerships.
- Help build and scale the commercial legal team as OLIX grows, taking main responsibility for projects and eventually hiring and managing team members.
- Set commercial legal standards, playbooks, fallback positions, and templates for commercial contracting.
- Make risk decisions with the CLO and help the business make them, cutting through ambiguity and framing legal and commercial risk clearly.
- Design and build scalable legal workflows using AI tooling and automation to allow the legal function to scale faster than headcount.
- Set OLIX's positions on key commercial terms including liability caps, indemnities, IP ownership and licensing, data protection, warranties, termination, and service levels.
- Own the IP dimension of commercial work including structuring and negotiating IP ownership, licensing, confidentiality, and know-how in various agreements.
- Work closely with engineering and IP counsel to protect core technology and implement IP strategy.
- Partner with Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering to align legal with business strategy.
- Manage external counsel for specialist workstreams including US contracting, IP, data, and export controls.
- Work with the CLO and other teams on corporate, governance, and regulatory matters impacting commercial contracting.
- Contribute to legal tooling selection, contract lifecycle management (CLM) implementation, and enablement across the legal team.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor in England and Wales or US-qualified attorney admitted to a US state bar with 8 to 12+ years post-qualification experience.
- Trained at top-tier City, US or comparable international firm.
- Technically excellent lawyer with rigorous legal analysis, precise drafting, and structured approach to playbooks and standard forms.
- Proven track record leading complex commercial contract negotiations end to end as lead lawyer on multi-workstream projects.
- Technical IP experience negotiating ownership, background/foreground IP, licensing, confidentiality and know-how provisions in technology development, manufacturing and supply arrangements involving semiconductors, hardware or deep technology.
- Ability to operate comfortably in ambiguity and make clear risk decisions and recommendations.
- Experience building, scaling, or contributing to commercial legal functions in fast-moving technology or hardware scale-ups, ideally venture-backed.
- Line-management or mentoring experience of junior counsel, paralegals, or secondees.
- Comfortable understanding OLIX's complex technology to support the legal function.
Conditions
- Open to UK-based candidates and US-qualified attorneys willing to relocate to London.
- Full visa sponsorship and relocation support provided.