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About the Role
Wayve is seeking a Legal Counsel (Commercial) in London to support a wide range of commercial matters. This role is crucial for scaling globally and deploying embodied AI technology. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, technology-driven environments at the intersection of law, AI, product innovation, and operational scale. While experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or AI is beneficial, strong foundational commercial skills, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complex legal landscapes are prioritized. The role requires a proactive, commercially minded self-starter comfortable operating independently on day-to-day commercial legal matters, with significant exposure to cross-border and international issues.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including supplier, software/SaaS, services, operational contracts, and bespoke agreements with OEM customers and Tier 1 suppliers, often involving IP, data, privacy, and technology issues.
- Advise on intellectual property, AI and data usage (including data for AI development and training), and general commercial matters, in partnership with other Legal team members and external counsel.
- Advise on novel and emerging legal areas, particularly at the intersection of law and AI, and navigate complex questions where legal frameworks, precedent, and market practice are still developing.
- Advise the People team on employment and HR matters for Wayve’s global workforce, collaborating with local counsel when specialist advice is needed.
- Advise on data protection and privacy matters, supporting the use and sharing of data related to Wayve's products, commercial relationships, and AI development and training.
- Improve and develop scalable processes, templates, playbooks, and governance structures to support Wayve’s growth and contracting volume.
- Support strategic initiatives, international expansion, and new product deployments from a commercial legal perspective.
- Support operational teams, including Fleet Operations, with the operation, testing, and deployment of Wayve’s vehicle fleet in international markets.
- Educate and enable the business on commercial risk, contracting best practices, and legal process matters.
- Support other members of the Legal Team.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor in England and Wales.
- Trained at a leading law firm with 2 to 4 years of relevant post-qualification experience (or more/less).
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including procurement, supply chain, technology, and vendor contracts.
- Comfortable negotiating directly with commercial counterparties and communicating legal positions clearly and pragmatically.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to distill complex legal issues and explain legal and commercial risk to non-legal stakeholders.
- Experience supporting strategic commercial transactions and working closely with business stakeholders in fast-moving, technology-driven environments.
- Strong commercial judgment and ability to assess legal risk in the context of broader business objectives, providing practical, solutions-oriented advice.
- Experience advising on employment-related matters affecting a global workforce, or a willingness to develop experience in this area.
- Ability to work autonomously on day-to-day matters, take initiative, exercise sound judgment on when to escalate, and operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with business stakeholders and communicating effectively with both legal and non-legal experts.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and switch effectively between competing priorities.
- Enthusiasm for tackling a broad range of legal matters, including areas outside existing experience, and comfort working through novel legal and commercial questions where precedent may be limited.
Skills
- Commercial agreements drafting and negotiation
- Intellectual property advisory
- AI and data usage advisory
- Data protection and privacy advisory
- Employment and HR matters advisory
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Risk assessment
- Legal research
- Cross-border commercial advisory
- Commercial negotiation
- Communication
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- 2-4 years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor in England and Wales
About the Company
- Founded in 2017, Wayve is a leader in Embodied AI technology, developing advanced AI software and foundation models for vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate complex environments, enhancing automated driving systems.
- Wayve's vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward with intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers to accelerate the transition from assisted to automated driving.
- The company fosters a fast-paced environment where big problems ignite innovation, embracing uncertainty and complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions.
- Wayve values diversity, new perspectives, and an inclusive work environment, encouraging contributions that deliver impact.
- The Legal Team focuses on enabling business goals while managing legal risk, seeking individuals who can clearly explain risks, exercise sound judgment, and collaborate on practical solutions, especially in areas with developing legal precedent.
Equal Opportunity
- Wayve is committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
- Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If accommodations or adjustments are required to participate fully in the interview process, candidates should notify Wayve.
- Wayve encourages applications from individuals passionate about self-driving cars who believe they can make a positive impact, even if they do not meet all listed requirements.
- For US candidates, information regarding E-Verify Notice and Participation and Right to Work is available.
- Wayve will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in job adverts or interviews, but will optionally capture diversity information via a DEI Monitoring form to improve the hiring process.