Head of Legal

Build Conveo's legal function from the ground up, and be the partner our leadership team relies on as we scale. Conveo is a Y Combinator-backed company in an active growth period. We started this year as a team of ~20 and are on track to reach ~125 people by year end. The people who join now have an outsized chance to shape how this company is built. We raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global, Balderton, and Visionaries, giving us the fuel to move even faster. We're investing in our product, growing an exceptional team, and taking on bigger challenges as we enter our next stage of growth. What We're Building Conveo is the AI research platform enabling fast, affordable, and high-quality consumer and B2B research. Global brands like Unilever, Google, and Orange use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across marketing and product teams. Traditional research is slow, expensive, and superficial. Running it well requires expertise most teams don't have. That gap affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them. We're closing it. The Role As our first Head of Legal, you'll build Conveo's legal function from the ground up. Strategically critical commercial agreements with enterprise clients and reseller partners are coming in, and they require sharp commercial and legal review to protect our revenue lines. You will advise on a broad array of legal topics across commercial, product, IP, employment and corporate matters, with the support of external advisors and tools where appropriate. This is a partnership role. You'll report to our CFO and work hand in hand with them, with a strong dotted line to our CEO. You'll have full strategic and operational visibility across the organisation and help strike the balance between risk and opportunity. Conveo operates across Europe and the US, so you'll also support our New York team and work across jurisdictions. You'll lead our legal associate directly and manage our external lawyers. Legal here is both sword and shield for our commercial team. You'll be commercially pragmatic: working with the business, you'll make proportionate risk calls on the deal as a whole, not clause by clause, and you'll be prepared to work at pace. You know that speed and clarity matter, and that sometimes legal rigour is what saves us down the road. This role is based in our London office, in a hybrid setup (3 days a week in the office expected). What You'll Do Own our commercial contracts • Review and negotiate our most important client and reseller agreements: MSAs, DPAs, SLAs and order forms, often against enterprise procurement and legal teams • Own supplier contract reviews • Set fallback positions so deals don't stall, and tell the business clearly when to say no • Build templates and playbooks so sales can close standard deals without you Build the legal function • Set up intake, templates, playbooks and a central contract repository • Decide what is handled in-house and what goes to external counsel, and keep spend in check • Select, brief and manage outside firms across jurisdictions • Lead and develop our legal associate, and grow the team as the company scales Own corporate, people and IP matters • Keep corporate housekeeping in order across our entities • Work closely with the CFO and corporate counsel on any debt or equity fundraises. • Partner with our People team on employment and equity matters across the UK, Belgium, the US, and any new market we enter • Protect our IP and work with external counsel to protect our brand • Get the company ready for Series B and due diligence Own the legal side of data privacy and AI • Have a say in how we build and use AI in our product, advising product and engineering to remain compliant with the changi