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Senior Legal Counsel, Product
LegalRemote — Europe
Published on 2026-11-08
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About this role
Serve as the legal partner to Product and R&D, advising on AI and digital regulation, privacy, intellectual property, and product development. The role also supports complex technology and commercial deals and helps scale legal processes, templates, and playbooks.
About the company
n8n is a workflow automation platform that lets teams connect apps and build AI-powered automations with a visual editor or code.
The team
Finance & Legal, working with the Legal team and reporting to the General Counsel.
What you'll do
- Develop readiness for the EU AI Act, including risk classification, assessments, due diligence, policies, and transparency commitments.
- Advise on digital regulations such as the EU Data Act and create product compliance roadmaps.
- Join product roadmap, design, and launch reviews, translating legal requirements into actionable product guidance.
- Advise on open-source, fair-code, and open-core licensing, plus IP issues involving AI outputs, models, and training data.
- Review and negotiate SaaS, self-hosted software, partnership, integration, AI model, and cloud provider agreements.
- Support complex enterprise deals and improve legal templates, playbooks, training, and self-serve processes.
What we're looking for
- Qualified lawyer based in Europe with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience, including 3+ years in-house at a SaaS or technology startup or scale-up.
- Fluent English and experience advising technology teams on the EU AI Act and other digital regulation.
- Working knowledge of open-source, fair-code, or open-core software licensing.
- Experience partnering with engineering, product, and sales teams while balancing legal risk with product and revenue goals.
- Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and improving legal processes.
- Experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements.
Nice to have
- Interest in legal technology, AI tools, and automation.
- AI or technology law credentials, such as AIGP, or equivalent practical experience.
- German language skills.
Benefits
- Equity in the company.
- 30 days of vacation in Europe, plus local public holidays.
- Annual €1,000 learning and development budget.
- Remote-first work with regular team off-sites.
- $100 monthly contribution to open-source projects.