DescriptionBoard Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm on a mission to make boards more effective — and through them, build better businesses and benefit society. We do this through a suite of AI powered software tools, evaluation frameworks, and advisory services, built on twenty years of boardroom experience. Our work improves how boards operate and how leaders make decisions at the highest level. We work with over 80,000 leaders and 3,000 organisations globally, including clients across the Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30. In 2024 we received substantial backing from K1 Investment Management, the leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investor, marking the start of a significant new chapter for the business. We are growing and growing fast. That means real opportunities for the people who join us now — to shape how we scale, to work at the intersection of AI and governance, and to do some of the most commercially and intellectually interesting work in their careers. We are also deliberate about how we grow. Our founders and leadership team are deeply invested in keeping the culture that got us here: thoughtful, high calibre, and genuinely human. We are a company where ambition and balance are not in competition. If that sounds like the right environment for you, we would love to hear from you.Our MissionWe unleash the potential of organisations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefiting society.The RoleThis is a blended role that combines hands on commercial paralegal work with legal operations build. You will design the processes, playbooks and platforms that let the function scale as Board Intelligence grows globally. The role reflects how in house legal is now practised, with law and operations treated as one discipline rather than two.Reporting to the Legal Director, you will partner with Sales, Finance, Operations, Product and regional stakeholders to support our commercial activity and core business as usual. You will help triage and progress sell side and procurement work under supervision, reduce friction, improve speed to signature, and own the underlying processes, templates and tooling that make consistent risk decisions possible as we scale across upsells and expansions, net new enterprise procurement, and entry into new markets.We are hiring primarily for potential, commercial instinct and a builder’s mindset. You will already have meaningful paralegal experience and a clear ambition to develop your practice. If you are ready to step beyond task execution into building how an in house legal function runs, this is the role for you.Main ResponsibilitiesCommercial contracting support across buy side and sell side, including first draft NDAs, order forms, amendments and supplier agreementsCore legal support across all Board Intelligence trading entitiesCompany secretarial support, including governance processes, entity maintenance, approvals, and coordination with external providers as neededSupporting the Legal Director on higher complexity or higher value arrangements, coordinating stakeholder input, tracking internal approvals, and managing the execution workflowSupporting regulatory documentation, including Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), AI schedules and other privacy and security addenda as requiredActing as the key contact for contract lifecycle and obligation management, supporting tracking, post signature compliance and operationalisation of key obligationsProviding sell side commercial support by keeping deals moving, applying the team’s standard positions and fallbacks from the playbook, and escalating non standard asks with optionsSell side and procurement diligence support, including responding to enterprise procurement processes and coordinating inputs across security, privacy, finance and operationsData privacy and digital regulatory enablement, embedding consistent positions and workable processes that support scaling across regionsPost M&A integration delivery, including contract novations and assignments, harmonisation of templates and processes, and issue triageLegal operations, a core part of the role: owning day to day development of templates, playbooks and clause libraries, helping select, implement and administer CLM and adjacent legal tech such as electronic signature, intake and AI assisted review, designing intake and triage workflows, and building the reporting that lets us run the function on dataAd hoc legal support for cross functional initiatives as requiredRequirementsYou are an experienced paralegal, or equivalent, with strong commercial contracting exposure and a genuine interest in legal operations. You are comfortable in a scaling, global SaaS and technology environment and ready for your next challenge.You bring:A practical, commercial mindset and comfort working with ambiguity during transition and changeThe instinct to take initiative and surface options, not only raise issues, with a developing sense of how to balance commercial outcomes against riskAn interest in improving how things work globally, not only doing the work locallyStrong collaboration skills and the ability to influence without authority across regionsAmbition to grow into a role with greater ownership and impactRequired Skills and ExperienceEssentialMeaningful in house or private practice paralegal experience, typically three years or more. This is indicative, and we welcome applications from candidates at slightly earlier or later stages where the experience is compelling.Hands on experience drafting commercial agreements such as NDAs, order forms and supplier agreements, and supporting negotiations in a fast paced environment, ideally SaaS or technology, in house and/or in private practiceFamiliarity with a range of commercial agreements such as NDAs, order forms and supplier contracts, with exposure to MSAsConfidence partnering with senior business stakeholders across functions and geographies, including supporting Sales on upsells and renewals and enterprise procurement cyclesExposure to working with Sales or commercial teams in a high volume or scaling environmentReal enthusiasm for legal tech and AI enablement, with evidence of self starting adoption such as CLM, contract automation, playbooks and knowledge bases, electronic signature, and AI assisted drafting and review. You do not need to have built these at scale, but you should have opinions on how they should work and ideas for how to make them better.Evidence of taking ownership beyond pure task execution, for example improving a template, building a tracker, owning an intake process, or running a small piece of legal operations work end to endDesirableHands on exposure to CLM systems and broader legal tech, comfortable standardising workflows, building templates and playbooks, and an interest in enabling AI assisted contracting at scaleExposure to SaaS, technology, or AI enabled productsExperience supporting enterprise deals, including negotiating customer and third party paper and coordinating security, privacy and procurement requirementsExperience operating in a global environment, including regional stakeholders, time zones and local legislationExposure to contracting in MENA and/or supporting expansion into the GCC and KSA, or a strong interest in building this capabilityFamiliarity with data protection concepts such as DPAs and cross border considerationsExperience improving templates, processes, governance, or ways of working across multiple teamsWhy joinThis is a stretch role designed for an ambitious paralegal who wants to qualify in house, build a legal operations capability from the ground up, and grow with the function as Board Intelligence scales, and you'll get to:Work at the intersection of legal, commercial and technology on a global scaleBuild a function and operating model rather than only operating within oneDrive alignment across regions while improving speed, consistency and customer experienceGain exposure to AI enabled products, global contracting, legal operations and privacyReal scope to grow into a senior, high impact role shaping how Board Intelligence scales worldwideA team that treats your development as part of the job, including in house qualification support, breadth of work across commercial and operations, and regular coaching to help you grow into the lawyer you want to beBenefitsWe pride ourselves on our great working environment and package. Here’s some of what’s on offer: Pension scheme Personal performance bonus 26 days holiday each calendar year Bupa health & dental cover Group life assuranceEAPCycle to work scheme Job SummaryID: ABA3A09770Department: LegalType: full time
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