So, you’re a legal expert with great negotiation skills who wants more work/life balance?

As Legal Counsel at Cambridge Intelligence, you’ll be an integral member of our established in-house legal team where you’ll advise on all legal aspects of our software licensing contracts for our innovative software development toolkits.

What’s involved?

You’ll assist with various legal tasks in relation to software licensing from drafting, contract negotiations and redlining together with a broad range of other legal work. Reporting into our Head of Legal you’ll be part of a friendly legal team of 4.

You’ll get involved with the following among other things:

• Contract drafting, utilising templates/precedents as appropriate, including royalties.
• Contract review and negotiation
• Assisting our Data Privacy Manager in relation to data protection obligations.
• Dealing with a broad range of legal matters beyond software licensing including data protection laws, anti-bribery, recruitment/immigration laws, review of third-party terms and conditions etc.
• Assisting our internal Customer Success Team with contract renewals including advice, drafting of renewal letters/variations and drafting of new license agreements.
• Providing ad hoc legal support to our other internal teams on a wide variety of matters.

Who you’ll work with

You’ll work very closely with our customer success and sales teams but with other departments across the business too.

Opportunities to grow

Everyone here gets funded professional development time, with five days and an allocated budget per year in order to learn new skills.

Requirements

We are looking for an organised and experienced legal professional, who has great negotiation and drafting skills and who enjoys learning and building relationships both internally and externally. Experience of software licensing and multi-jurisdiction negotiation is highly desirable.

This is a busy and exciting role working as part of a friendly and supportive team.

You’ll get involved with the following among other things:

• Contract drafting, utilising templates/precedents as appropriate, including royalties.
• Contract review and negotiation
• Dealing with a broad range of legal matters beyond software licensing including data protection laws, anti-bribery, recruitment/immigration laws, review of third-party terms and conditions etc.
• Assisting our internal Customer Success Team with contract renewals including advice, drafting of renewal letters/variations and drafting of new licence agreements.
• Providing ad hoc legal support to our other internal teams on a wide variety of matters.

Benefits

Hybrid working (2-3 days a week in our Cambridge city centre office) #LI-Hybrid

Pension

Medical and Dental Insurance (BUPA)

10% discretionary bonus

5 days of professional development paid for by the company

Death in Service benefit

Flexible holiday benefits

Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)

Be Yourself

We want to build a fair, respectful and welcoming company, where everyone feels at home. That means taking a long-term approach to equality, diversity and inclusion – not treating it as a tickbox exercise.

With the help of our EDI group, we’re working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful and inclusive.