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About the Role
Wayve is seeking a Legal Counsel (Commercial) in London to support a wide range of commercial matters within the Commercial Legal team. This role is crucial for scaling globally and deploying embodied AI technology. It's ideal for individuals who excel in fast-paced, technology-driven environments at the intersection of law, AI, product innovation, and operational scale.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including supplier, software/SaaS, services, operational, OEM customer, and Tier 1 supplier contracts, often involving IP, data, privacy, and technology issues.
- Advise on intellectual property, AI and data usage, and general commercial matters, partnering with the Legal team and external counsel.
- Advise on novel and emerging legal areas, particularly at the intersection of law and AI, where legal frameworks are still developing.
- Advise the People team on global employment and HR matters, collaborating with local counsel when necessary.
- Advise on data protection and privacy matters, supporting data use and sharing for products, commercial relationships, and AI development.
- Develop and improve scalable processes, templates, playbooks, and governance structures to support company 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 internationally.
- Educate and enable the business on commercial risk, contracting best practices, and legal processes.
- 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 (more or less experience considered).
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements (procurement, supply chain, technology, 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 for non-legal stakeholders.
- Experience supporting strategic commercial transactions and working closely with business stakeholders in fast-moving, technology-driven environments.
- Strong commercial judgement and ability to assess legal risk in the context of business objectives, providing practical, solutions-oriented advice.
- Experience advising on global employment-related matters or willingness to develop this experience.
- Ability to work autonomously on day-to-day matters, take initiative, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with business stakeholders and communicating effectively with legal and non-legal experts.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of legal matters, including areas outside existing experience, and comfort working through novel legal and commercial questions.
- Commercial experience within the automotive, mobility, or broader technology sector (desirable).
- Experience supporting OEM, strategic partnership, or large-scale B2B transactions involving hardware, software, data, or integrated technology solutions (desirable).
- Exposure to AI, data, or autonomous vehicle related legal issues (desirable).
- Cross-border commercial advisory experience across the UK, US, Europe, and Japan (desirable).
- Experience supporting commercial or employment matters in Germany (desirable).
- Experience helping to automate and scale legal processes, templates, or commercial legal functions (desirable).
Skills
- Commercial agreement drafting and negotiation
- Intellectual property advisory
- AI and data usage advisory
- Data protection and privacy advisory
- Employment law advisory
- Stakeholder management
- Risk assessment and management
- Process improvement
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Autonomous vehicle technology
- Robotics
- AI technology
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid working
- International travel may be required
Experience Level
- 2 to 4 years post-qualification experience (flexible)
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.
- Wayve's vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward with intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products for automakers.
- The company fosters a fast-paced environment that embraces uncertainty and complex challenges, aiming high while staying humble.
- Wayve values diversity, new perspectives, and an inclusive work environment where contributions matter and impact is delivered.
- Wayve is committed to creating a diverse, fair, and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.
- We encourage applications from individuals who are passionate about self-driving cars and believe they can make a positive impact.
- 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.