Senior Legal Counsel

Join LeapXpert: Innovating the Future of Business Communication

At LeapXpert, we've built the infrastructure that turns enterprise communication into intelligence enterprises can act on. As the leader in Governed Communication Intelligence, our platform enables employees to connect with clients on the consumer messaging channels they actually use, governs and captures every conversation as enterprise data, and converts that data into deployable intelligence for teams, AI agents, and the business decisions that matter. Governance is the foundation. Intelligence is the value.

Our mission: enable enterprises to build a governed communication infrastructure that makes trust structural, intelligence compound, and every client relationship more productive. We recently announced an $180M growth investment and are recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving for the second consecutive year. Hundreds of the world's most demanding enterprises trust LeapXpert to power their most important client conversations every day.

This is just the beginning. We're growing fast and looking for sharp, driven people to help us define and build the Governed Communication Intelligence category. At LeapXpert, you'll work on high-impact projects, collaborate with ambitious teams across the globe, and help shape a platform that is rewriting how enterprises communicate, govern, and compete.

Why join us

• Innovative Culture: Work at the cutting edge of business communication technology, with a product that's changing the way Fortune 500 companies communicate.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly impact how millions of professionals connect and collaborate worldwide.
• Global Team: Be part of a diverse, mission-driven team that values collaboration, innovation, and growth.
• Growth Opportunities: With our rapid expansion, there are plenty of opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Award-Winning Product: Join a company with a track record of success and recognition, including accolades like being named a Gartner Cool Vendor.

About the role

• Title: Senior Legal Counsel
• Function: Legal
• Reporting: Head of Legal

What you'll do:

• Contract Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate customer-facing agreements (MSAs, order forms, amendments, DPAs) with enterprise and regulated financial institution clients, including vendor and reseller agreements.
• Policy Development: Maintain and improve contract templates and playbooks to standardize negotiation positions and reduce turnaround time.
• Risk Management: Advise on multi-jurisdictional data protection compliance: GDPR/UK GDPR, Israeli Privacy Protection Law, Hong Kong PDPO, Singapore PDPA, China PIPL, and US state privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA). Review and negotiate Data Processing Agreements and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
• Support AI product compliance workstreams.
• Advise on multi-jurisdiction employment matters, including terminations, probationary period issues, and EOR/PEO arrangements for cross-border hires.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering and Finance to unblock deals and provide practical, business-aligned legal guidance under time pressure.
• Contribute to legal operations: maintaining the legal request intake/tracking system, drafting departmental OKRs, and legal process improvement.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

- Qualified lawyer (LL.B./J.D. or equivalent) with active bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction; 7–10+ years' post-qualification experience, with substantial in-house experience at a SaaS and technology. - Demonstrated expertise in commercial contract drafting and negotiation (SaaS MSAs, DPAs, vendor/reseller agreements) at enterprise scale. - Working knowledge of data privacy and data protection law. - Strong stakeholder management skills; ability to communicate legal risk clearly and pragmatically to non-legal audiences (executives, sales, product. - Experience managing outside counsel relationships and budgets across multiple jurisdictions.

Nice-to-Have:

- Direct experience with regulated financial institution customers (banks, asset managers) or the RegTech/communications-compliance/archiving space. - Experience building or improving legal operations infrastructure (contract playbooks, template libraries). - Familiarity with AI-assisted legal drafting/review tools and comfort integrating them into workflow. - English Proficiency - Fluent to native-level professional English (spoken and written) is mandatory.

Our Values

• Curiosity: We're curious and future-focused.
• One Team: We're one team, in many colors.
• Customer–Driven: We're obsessed with the customer.
• Integrity: We don't compromise on the integrity.
• Excellence: We exemplify excellence

LeapXpert values diversity and inclusion as critical components of our culture and success. We believe a diverse team with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives fosters creativity, innovation, and mutual respect. We are committed to creating a welcoming and supportive environment where everyone can thrive regardless of ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, or ability. We actively seek to recruit and retain talent from diverse communities and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Please submit your resume for consideration.