Product Counsel

The Rundown AI, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Welcome to the video first world!

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.

Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now….

Meet Synthesia

We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. We’ve raised over $150M in funding from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

About the role

As a Product Counsel at Synthesia, you will work closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products, including:

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs. We’ll ask you to draw from the experience you’ve gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way;
• Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy;
• Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient;
• Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments;
• Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters;
• Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and negotiation positions.

You’re a great fit for the role if you have the following characteristics:

• Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney;
• 6+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies;
• Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector;
• Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts;
• Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers;
• Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts;
• Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition;
• Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands;
• Extra points if you have an understanding of the use of training data for building AI models.

Benefits

• A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up.
• Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based.
• Cycle to work scheme (London).
• Regular socials and company retreats.
• Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
• A generous referral scheme if you help us hire.
• Pension contribution/salary sacrifice.
• Work from home set up.
• A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product.