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About the Role

This blended role combines commercial paralegal work with legal operations build, focusing on designing processes, playbooks, and platforms to scale the legal function globally as Board Intelligence grows. Reporting to the Legal Director, you will partner with various stakeholders to support commercial activity, reduce friction, improve speed to signature, and own the underlying processes, templates, and tooling for consistent risk decisions across expansions, new enterprise procurement, and market entry. The company seeks candidates with potential, commercial instinct, and a builder’s mindset, who possess meaningful paralegal experience and ambition to develop their practice beyond task execution into building an in-house legal function.

Responsibilities

Provide commercial contracting support for buy-side and sell-side, including drafting NDAs, order forms, amendments, and supplier agreements.
Offer core legal support across all Board Intelligence trading entities.
Deliver company secretarial support, including governance processes, entity maintenance, approvals, and external provider coordination.
Support the Legal Director on complex or high-value arrangements, coordinating stakeholder input, tracking approvals, and managing execution.
Assist with regulatory documentation, including Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), AI schedules, and privacy/security addenda.
Act as the key contact for contract lifecycle and obligation management, supporting tracking, post-signature compliance, and operationalization.
Provide sell-side commercial support by progressing deals, applying standard positions, and escalating non-standard requests.
Support sell-side and procurement diligence, including responding to enterprise procurement processes and coordinating inputs.
Enable data privacy and digital regulatory compliance, embedding consistent positions and workable processes for regional scaling.
Deliver post-M&A integration, including contract novations, template harmonization, and issue triage.
Lead legal operations, including developing templates, playbooks, clause libraries, implementing legal tech (CLM, e-signature, intake, AI review), designing workflows, and building data-driven reporting.
Provide ad hoc legal support for cross-functional initiatives.

Requirements

Experienced paralegal, or equivalent, with strong commercial contracting exposure and genuine interest in legal operations.
Comfortable in a scaling, global SaaS and technology environment.
Possess a practical, commercial mindset and comfort with ambiguity during transition and change.
Demonstrate initiative to surface options and balance commercial outcomes against risk.
Interest in improving global processes, not just local execution.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across regions without direct authority.
Ambition to grow into a role with greater ownership and impact.
Meaningful in-house or private practice paralegal experience, typically three years or more.
Hands-on experience drafting commercial agreements (NDAs, order forms, supplier agreements) and supporting negotiations in a fast-paced SaaS or technology environment.
Familiarity with various commercial agreements, including exposure to MSAs.
Confidence partnering with senior business stakeholders across functions and geographies, supporting Sales on upsells, renewals, and enterprise procurement cycles.
Exposure to working with Sales or commercial teams in high-volume or scaling environments.
Enthusiasm for legal tech and AI enablement, with evidence of self-starting adoption (CLM, contract automation, playbooks, e-signature, AI assisted drafting/review).
Evidence of ownership beyond task execution, such as improving templates, building trackers, owning intake processes, or running legal operations work end-to-end.

Skills

Commercial contracting
Legal operations
Practical commercial mindset
Initiative-taking
Risk-reward balancing
Global process improvement
Collaboration
Influencing without authority
Drafting commercial agreements
Negotiation support
Stakeholder partnership
Sales team collaboration
Legal tech adoption
AI enablement
CLM systems
Contract automation
Playbook development
Knowledge base management
Electronic signature
AI assisted drafting and review
Template improvement
Tracker building
Intake process ownership
End-to-end legal operations management
Standardizing workflows
Supporting enterprise deals
Negotiating customer and third-party paper
Coordinating security, privacy, and procurement requirements
Operating in a global environment
Contracting in MENA
Data protection concepts (DPAs, cross-border considerations)
Improving governance and ways of working

Experience Level

Experienced paralegal
Three years or more in-house or private practice paralegal experience

Benefits

Pension scheme
Personal performance bonus
26 days holiday each calendar year
Bupa health & dental cover
Group life assurance
EAP
Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm dedicated to making boards more effective to build better businesses and benefit society.
The company achieves this through AI-powered software tools, evaluation frameworks, and advisory services, leveraging twenty years of boardroom experience.
Their work enhances board operations and leadership decision-making at the highest level.
They serve over 80,000 leaders and 3,000 organizations globally, including Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30 clients.
In 2024, Board Intelligence received substantial backing from K1 Investment Management, a leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investor, marking a significant new chapter.
The company is experiencing rapid growth, offering opportunities to shape scaling efforts and work at the intersection of AI and governance.
Board Intelligence maintains a thoughtful, high-caliber, and genuinely human culture, where ambition and balance coexist.
Mission: To unleash the potential of organizations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefiting society.