About us:

At Leya, we’re on a mission to transform the way lawyers work. Our AI-native platform lets legal professionals enhance their productivity and automate complex workflows. We collaborate closely with our clients and iterate at a market-leading pace. In a year, we have gone from an early MVP to tools used daily by thousands of lawyers, and are now scaling rapidly. We are here to win together with our team and clients, and carry the belief that life is too short not to accomplish something truly special.

You are joining an early stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit, trusted by global leaders like Bird & Bird, Pérez-Llorca, and Mannheimer Swartling. Backed by over $35M in funding from top investors including Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator. And an world-class team from Mannheimer Swartling, Google, Klarna, Spotify, and top tier law firms with infinite room to grow professionally.

The role:

As a Legal Counsel at Leya, you’ll be at the centre of the legal tech revolution , playing a pivotal role in ensuring legal compliance, mitigating risks and supporting our dynamic business operations. You will support our commercial and product teams on a broad range of topics. The Leya legal function operates across a wide range of legal disciplines as well as jurisdictions and plays a key role as a partner to all teams with a focus on product development, operations, and commercial projects. Beyond your legal expertise, you should also be able to innovate, solve problems and proactively look for solutions in our challenging mission to revolutionise legal work worldwide.

What you will be doing:

• Work closely with the senior stakeholders in our operational, commercial and product teams in the Nordics on strategic as well as day-to-day legal matters, including with new products and services, processes, contracts, partnerships, and supply chains.

• Review product designs, data flows, and processes and help balancing risks.

• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts.

• Own privacy compliance. Actively assess and address privacy risks, ensuring alignment with applicable data protection regulations.

• Help building efficient and scalable processes to meet legal and regulatory requirements and drafting policies and guidelines to help teams proactively design and build requirements into products and processes; and

• Help educate and train employees on key legal topics such as regulatory requirements.

Who you are:

• Swedish Law Degree LL.M.

• Proficiency in both spoken and written Swedish and English. Additional language skills are meritorious. 

• 3-5 years of experience at a top-tier law firm or as an in-house legal counsel. It’s a plus if you have experience from working for a SaaS company.

• Experience in handling corporate matters and drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements. Experience with data privacy matters, IT security and/or corporate law is meritorious.

• Your focus is on achieving meaningful business outcomes, translating into actionable advice delivered clearly and comprehensively.

• Self-motivated, independent, proactive and capable of managing your own projects.

• You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic entrepreneurial environment and rapidly evolving business setting. You take initiative and are committed to delivering high-quality results.

• You are excited about the potential of technology to transform the legal industry. You have a keen interest in AI and legal tech, and you are eager to learn and apply these tools in real-world settings.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive base salary

• Generous stock option program

• 30 vacation days

• 5000 SEK in Wellness contribution

• Pension scheme comparable to ITP1

• An office in the central parts of Stockholm, this is an on-site position.