Legal Counsel

About Nexcess Nexcess provides specialty cloud solutions for organizations where performance and compliance have to coexist. We serve businesses worldwide, from agencies scaling client sites to enterprises running mission-critical operations. We've built our reputation on deep technical expertise and genuine partnership with every client we work with. Behind every environment we manage is a team of people who take the craft seriously and keep showing up when it matters. About The Role We are seeking an experienced, agile, and business-minded Legal Counsel to join our legal team and support our growing operations across the globe. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and cross-functional teams, managing legal, commercial, and compliance risks with a particular emphasis on contract negotiation and corporate governance. The ideal candidate is a responsive, detail-oriented legal advisor who can balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, with limited day-to-day oversight. Location: Remote, US, UK, or Cyprus What You'll Do Commercial Contracts: Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of complex agreements, including but not limited to terms and conditions, consulting agreements, marketing, lease, intra-group contracts, employment agreements, vendor contracts, and customer agreements to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards and own the full contract lifecycle: drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and archiving. Maintain and evolve contract templates and playbooks for key commercial and corporate agreements. Employment and labour: Advise on employment law matters, including hiring, terminations, and restructurings. Risk & Compliance: Identify legal risks across data privacy, security, employment, anti-bribery, and artificial intelligence and provide practical legal advice to business partners on risk mitigation and regulatory compliance Corporate Governance: Support litigation, dispute resolution, corporate due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions in partnership with internal and external counsel. Handle corporate governance matters of the entities in our group worldwide, including coordination of corporate approvals, documentation, and record-keeping and manage statutory, regulatory, and internal compliance matters for the group entities, including timely filings, corporate records, and ongoing alignment with applicable legal and governance requirements, often in collaboration with external corporate service providers, agent and external counsel as applicable. Policy & Operations: Create, implement, and maintain internal corporate policies regarding data retention, surveillance, employment, AI and privacy to optimize business outcomes while managing risk. Keep up with developments in applicable laws which may require amendments to existing policies and/or creating new policies to ensure compliance. Regulatory Compliance: Create, implement, and maintain internal corporate policies regarding a variety of topics Cross-Functional Advisory: Partner with senior leaders on key initiatives and compliance, advising on legal and regulatory matters and providing practical solutions. External Counsel Management: Coordinate and oversee external legal counsel when required. Required Qualifications Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Law (LL.B., LL.M., or equivalent). Experience: Minimum 5-7 years of post-qualification legal experience with strong expertise in corporate and commercial law, with proven experience drafting and reviewing contracts and solid knowledge of corporate governance, compliance, and employment law matters. Main experience with US/UK and other EU legal frameworks. Core Skills: Proven mastery of corporate law and regulatory compliance. Demonstrated contract negotiation abilities across a variety of agreement types. Strong analytical skills, detailed-minded and ability to work independently. Strong attention to detail, ownership, accountability, flexibility and adaptability. Strong expertise in GDPR and other EU related privacy laws and regulations. Mindset: Strong business acumen, critical thinking, and the ability to solve complex problems creatively. Adaptability: Collaborative spirit and the agility to thrive in a fast-changing corporate landscape. Communication: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; comfortable operating in a multi-national, cross-border environment. Nice-to-Have Industry experience in hosting, cloud infrastructure, or technology companies. Multi-jurisdictional exposure and hands-on experience supporting companies across multiple jurisdictions worldwide would be an advantage. Prior in-house legal experience an advantage. Knowledge of DORA obligations and the AI Act and experience in litigation support and dispute resolution. Work Environment The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. While performing the essential duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to speak and hear While performing the essential duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to use hands for keyboarding, gross manipulation, and fine manipulation Works at a desk and computer screen for extended periods of time Works in a traditional climate controlled office environment or from home Works in a highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges, deadlines and diverse employee population Disclaimer This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all job responsibilities, tasks, or duties. Additional duties and tasks may be assigned as part of the job function. Liquid Web Inc. reserves the right to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in a way that best supports the organizational needs. The job description in no way creates or implies an employment contract. The employment contract remains "at will". Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Liquid Web is committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Nexcess