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About the Role

Board Intelligence is seeking an ambitious Legal & Operations Executive to join their Legal Team. This role involves hands-on commercial paralegal work and legal operations build, focusing on designing processes, playbooks, and platforms to support the company's global growth. The position is ideal for someone with meaningful paralegal experience and a builder's mindset, ready to transition from task execution to shaping an in-house legal function.

Responsibilities

Provide commercial contracting support, including drafting NDAs, order forms, amendments, and supplier agreements.
Offer core business-as-usual legal support across all BI trading entities.
Assist with company secretarial duties, governance processes, entity maintenance, and coordination with external providers.
Support the Legal Director on complex or high-value arrangements, managing stakeholder input, approvals, and execution workflows.
Assist with regulatory documentation, including Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and AI schedules.
Serve as the key contact for contract lifecycle and obligation management, including tracking and post-signature compliance.
Support sell-side commercial activities by maintaining deal momentum, applying standard positions, and escalating non-standard requests.
Provide sell-side and procurement diligence support, coordinating inputs from security, privacy, finance, and operations.
Enable data privacy and digital regulatory compliance by embedding consistent positions and workable processes.
Support post-Merger & Acquisition integration, including contract novations, template harmonization, and issue triage.
Own the day-to-day development of legal operations, including templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and the selection/administration of legal tech.
Design intake and triage workflows and build reporting for function management.
Provide ad-hoc legal support for cross-functional initiatives.

Requirements

Experienced in-house paralegal (or equivalent) with strong commercial contracting exposure and an interest in legal operations.
Comfortable operating in a scaling, global SaaS/technology environment.
Hands-on experience drafting commercial contracts (e.g., NDAs, order forms, supplier agreements) and supporting negotiations.
Experience supporting Sales on upsells/renewals and enterprise procurement cycles.
Demonstrated self-starting adoption of legal tech and AI enablement (e.g., CLM, contract automation, playbooks, e-signature, AI-assisted drafting/review).
Ability to take initiative, surface options, and balance commercial outcomes against risk.
Practical, commercial mindset and comfort working with ambiguity during transition/change.
Meaningful in-house or private practice paralegal experience (typically 3+ years).
Practical experience drafting commercial agreements and supporting negotiations.
Familiarity with a range of commercial agreements (e.g., NDAs, order forms, supplier contracts, MSAs).
Exposure to working with Sales or commercial teams in a high-volume or scaling environment.
Evidence of taking ownership beyond pure task execution (e.g., improving a template, building a tracker, owning an intake process).
Hands-on exposure to CLM systems and broader legal tech.
Comfortable standardizing workflows, building templates/playbooks, and enabling AI-assisted contracting.
Exposure to SaaS, technology, or AI-enabled products.
Experience supporting enterprise deals, including negotiating customer/third-party paper and coordinating security, privacy, and procurement requirements.
Familiarity with data protection concepts (e.g., DPAs) and cross-border considerations.
Experience improving templates, processes, governance, or ways of working across multiple teams.

Skills

Commercial contracting
Legal operations
Legal tech
AI enablement
CLM
Contract automation
Playbooks
Knowledge bases
E-signature
AI-assisted drafting/review
Negotiations
Sales support
Enterprise procurement
Data privacy
Digital regulatory enablement
Post-M&A integration
Company secretarial support
Regulatory documentation

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years paralegal experience
Experienced

Benefits

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

About the Company

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm focused on making boards more effective to build better businesses and benefit society.
They are the market leader in governance and board effectiveness, trusted by over 80,000 directors, executives, and governance professionals globally.
The company has invested in applied AI since 2020, leveraging an AI-powered platform and smart board advisor for a competitive advantage.
In 2024, K1 Investment Management invested to accelerate their growth.
Board Intelligence is growing fast with a proven commercial model and a product suite essential for high-stakes board environments.
The company culture is described as thoughtful, high calibre, and genuinely human, balancing ambition with work-life balance.

Equal Opportunity

Board Intelligence is committed to building a diverse team and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
They do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
Reasonable adjustments will be made at any stage of the process upon request.