Senior Legal Counsel
Posted on:
September 3, 2025
Job description
About the Role
ROLLER is seeking a commercially-minded Senior Legal Counsel to join our lean, high-performing Corporate Development & Legal team. This is not a traditional in-house legal role. As ROLLER’s first full time lawyer, you’ll be a strategic partner to the business—building legal systems, processes, and precedents to support our global growth. You will combine strong legal capability with an AI-builder mindset and a deep commercial understanding of SaaS and fintech businesses.
This role is perfect for a lawyer who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and wants to be embedded in the commercial and product fabric of the business. You will be deeply involved in go-to-market execution, enterprise deal-making, product compliance, and scaling legal operations through automation and generative AI tools.
Reporting to the Director of Corporate Development, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across Sales, Product, InfoSec, and the broader Senior Leadership Team. You will be empowered to think like a builder and have real impact, not just as a legal advisor but as a strategic contributor to the business
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
Contract Lifecycle Management
- Draft, review, update and manage ROLLER’s legal precedent library, including MSAs, Master Terms, SaaS Order Forms, NDAs and partner agreements.
- Ensure contracts are scalable, easy to use, and aligned to ROLLER's risk profile and go-to-market strategy.
Sales & Commercial Support
- Support Sales to negotiate and close enterprise SaaS agreements, including on customer paper.
- Design and implement a system – using generative AI tools – to streamline Sales’ negotiation of SMB and mid-market deals with minimal legal intervention.
Product & Regulatory Compliance
- Partner with Product to ensure ROLLER’s features and practices meet data, consumer, financial services and competition laws, including drafting and settling product compliance advices
- Collaborate with InfoSec on privacy, security and open-source compliance, including GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
Legal Systems & Automation
- Build scalable legal and compliance systems leveraging generative AI and modern tooling.
- Help establish a proactive compliance update monitoring framework for the Product and InfoSec teams across multiple regulatory domains.
General Legal Support & Strategic Projects
- Provide the Senior Leadership Team with advice on ad hoc legal matters and manage external counsel as needed (including for M&A, litigation, employment law, and vendor procurement).
- Lean into cross-functional strategic initiatives, bringing a legal lens to wider business goals.
Job requirements
About You
- Admitted to practice law in Australia, the U.S., or the UK.
- 7+ years legal experience, including:
- Demonstrated interest in building legal systems, particularly the application of AI to legal workflow.
- Experience negotiating and drafting complex B2B SaaS agreements.
- Working knowledge of global data privacy regimes (GDPR, CCPA), financial services compliance, and technology regulation.
- Experience managing external counsel and delivering to executive stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of how to balance legal risk and commercial priorities.
- First principles thinker – not afraid to challenge the status quo and build systems from scratch
- Builder mindset – thrives in ambiguity, enjoys creating structure and scalable solutions
- Technically sound, commercially savvy – can simplify complexity and help the business move faster
- High EQ communicator – able to clearly convey legal positions to non-legal stakeholders and influence decisions
- Curious and future-facing – excited by the potential of legal tech, AI, and automation
- Team player – collaborative, low-ego and energised by supporting a small, high-impact team
- Bias for action – brings urgency, focus and follow-through to every project
- Willing to wear many hats – ready to step outside traditional legal lanes to support strategic growth
