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About the Role
Signal is seeking a Legal Counsel, Commercial & Data to join the Legal team. This in-house role involves primary ownership of the Group's commercial contracting and data licensing work, reporting to the VP Legal. You will independently manage negotiations for data licensing, SaaS, technology agreements, vendor contracts, APIs, and order forms, requiring commercial fluency and experience to close major agreements with limited supervision.
Responsibilities
- Manage drafting, review, and negotiation of the Group's B2B agreements, including SaaS and subscription terms, enterprise contracts, order forms, vendor and procurement agreements, and NDAs.
- Draft and negotiate data supply, licensing, redistribution, and API agreements, ensuring contract terms align with data usage.
- Advise on the commercial lifecycle of the Group's SaaS and API products and contribute to developing and maintaining the relevant contracting framework.
- Negotiate technology and data vendor agreements and provide legal counsel on software, datasets, APIs, and models.
- Support contract migrations, post-acquisition integration, new commercial models, and material contract due diligence.
- Contribute to improving templates, playbooks, and legal tech.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in Greece and/or England and Wales (or another relevant jurisdiction).
- 5+ years PQE in B2B commercial contracting, with a focus on SaaS, technology, or data licensing.
- Proven track record of independently leading negotiations on data licensing, SaaS, or API agreements from term sheet to signature.
- Comfortable assessing IP and data rights questions, including ownership, derived data, and redistribution.
- Working understanding of privacy and data protection issues in commercial contracts.
- Confident negotiating directly with senior counterparties and internal commercial stakeholders.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Data licensing
- SaaS agreements
- Technology agreements
- Vendor contracts
- API agreements
- Intellectual property (IP) assessment
- Data rights assessment
- Privacy and data protection
- Negotiation
Location
- Greece
- England
- Wales
Work Type
- In-house
- Hybrid remote
Experience Level
- 5+ years PQE
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
Salary/Compensations
- Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
Benefits
- Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
- Hybrid remote work policy (9 working days at premises per month).
- Happy hour events.
- 2-4 weeks of onboarding training.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Structured development discussions every 4 months.
- Personal learning budget (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
- Regular team bonding events and activities.
About the Company
- Signal Signal is a group of companies offering products and services in commercial shipping, combining deep shipping knowledge with applied science, technology, and modern management methods.
- Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group, providing The Signal Ocean Platform which enables shipping professionals to securely handle, integrate, and assess shipping data using machine learning and artificial intelligence.
- Signal Maritime combines shipping industry expertise with modern data management techniques, focusing on effective and sustainable commercial management and innovative pooling models.
Equal Opportunity
- All applications will be considered while upholding the terms and conditions of privacy in compliance with personal data protection regulations.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
- We believe that a variety of perspectives, approaches, and viewpoints are essential for our innovation and success, and we support this through our hiring, development, and rewards practices.
- We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any nature, such as those based on race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other legally protected characteristics, and we take steps to eliminate such behaviors from our workplace.